| Our factory-model schools are soul-killers for students | |
| OK, did that title get your attention? It sure got mine! An interesting perspective on schools, particularly high schools. Read this article, and then ask yourself these questions, What am I doing to make a connection to my students? Am I just a cog in the factory wheel referred to in the article, or do I really try to identify what I can do to help students become productive members of a 21st Century society?
Is it even possible to do what this author recommends at the end of the article or are we trapped by the design of high schools and the high stakes testing mandate?
Link moved to Class Links at the bottom of this column.
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| Great Resources From Discovery Education | |
| Lesson plans, clip art, rubric creators, and lots more for teachers who have more to do than they have time for. Check out this page chock full of free tools for teachers.
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/
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| What's Right About Looking at What's Wrong? | |
| by Deborah Schifter
Both students and teachers gain new mathematical understanding by examining the reasoning behind a student's incorrect answer. Click on the link in Class Links to read a terrific article that really makes you think about the way we have always done things, and the possibility that there are other ways that just might be more thought provoking!
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| Nine Ways to Catch Kids Up MATH | |
Marilyn Burns
How do we help floundering students who lack basic math concepts? Check out the link below, in class links, for an article on how to help students who fall behind in Math.
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| Music and Learning | |
This looks like an interesting site, http://songsforteaching.com/ , with downloadable music to help teach concepts. They do cost, about the same as a normal CD so I don't think it would break your department budget, and might make a fun way to spice up your lessons.
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| Let the Students Do the Work | |
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“The fact that the teacher does most of the work at school explains why there is little learning in school,” Harry Wong, author of The First Days of School, has written. “The research says that the person who does the work is the only one doing the learning.”
I found this quote in the article on the Class Web Page titled, Let the students do the work! I think this goes along with the idea behind screencasting. Check it out and see what you think!
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| Screencasting | |
| I came across an idea today that I think would be fun to try. It is a segue idea from a lesson that was done by Lisa Jones in her class the other day. Lisa had her students teach each other the best way to read a word problem and identify the essential information needed to solve the problem. It was a great lesson, and the students really enjoyed working with their groups.
Then I found an article about a Math teacher who is having students create "screencasts" to teach each other math concepts. Wouldn't it be great if we could have students create screencasts and then post them on Fusion as resources for other students? Research says that we learn 90% percent of what we teach, so in creating the screencast, the student would need to "teach" and he would be learning while also helping other students at the same time. Click on the web page under Class Web Pages called Screencasting to read about a teacher who does this and see examples from his classes.
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| SchoolPad Training | |
| There will be 5 SchoolPad training sessions on October 31st in room 201A at the following times:
8:00 a.m.
9:15 a.m.
11:00 a.m.
1:00 p.m.
2:20 p.m.
Please RSVP by clicking on the date on the calendar, then clicking on the time of the event you would like to attend. Then click on the Click Here to RSVP link. A pop up box will appear and ask for your name and email address. You should receive an email, and I should receive an email stating that you plan to attend the session.
There is a 5 person maximum attendance for these sessions. These sessions will count as 1 hour toward your School Fusion PDS requirements.
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| School Fusion Intermediate Training | |
| There will be 4 School Fusion Intermediate Training sessions on October 25th in room 201A at the following times:
8:00 a.m.
9:15 a.m.
11:00 a.m.
1:00 p.m.
Please RSVP by clicking on the date on the calendar, then clicking on the time of the event you would like to attend. Then click on the Click Here to RSVP link. A pop up box will appear and ask for your name and email address. You should receive an email, and I should receive an email stating that you plan to attend the session.
There is a 5 person maximum attendance for these sessions. These sessions will count as 1 hour toward your School Fusion PDS requirements.
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