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Instructional Technology / Virtual Speaker Series 2012-13

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http://www.loc.gov/teachers/primary-source-analysis-tool

Encourage Students to Observe, Reflect and Question

 

The interactive Primary Source Analysis Tool from the Library of Congress allows users to choose the format of their document, artifact or other source from a pull-down menu and, depending on that choice, offers a series of contextual prompts for closer reading and analysis. Students can use the tool to record their responses to a primary source, and if they need guidance, they can use the sample questions. In addition, they can go back and forth between the columns; there is no correct order to analyze the source.

 

Click Here to go to the site for Access to this Free Tool

 

 

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LAC-O Student Engagement Survey 2012

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A summary of the results from the 2012 Student Engagement Survey administered by the Learning Achievement Coalition of Oakland County, Michigan.  

 

The survey was given to Teachers and 8th grade students in 13 middle schools in Oakland County 

  Teacher surveys = 369  Students = 2,722

 

The results indicate that student and teacher perceptions differ on a variety of important measures.  Most glaring is about relationships:  teachers tend to focus on the group; students want to be known as individuals.  

 

For more information about the work done by LAC-O, visit here:  http://www.lac-o.org/SitePages/New%20Page.aspx

 

 

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Study: Reading novels makes us better thinkers - Salon

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Are you uncomfortable with ambiguity? It's a common condition, but a highly problematic one.

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Catching Up With Edweek's Online Chat About Common Core ...

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Thanks to all the readers who participated, I had the opportunity to consider and answer some great questions about common-core implementation in English/language arts. They ranged from high-level, national questions ...

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CristinaSkyBox: The Relevance of Reading Skills

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Students Charge EAA With Missing Grades

Students Charge EAA With Missing Grades      

The Education Achievement Authority has completed its first year of operation, and it has left some students without the information they need to move on to higher education, a student and a parent

representative told the State Board of Education at its meeting Tuesday.

 

Donovan Smith, a junior at Mumford High School, said his grades

 

have dropped from just shy of a 3.0 to about 0.2 largely because his teachers have not been putting his grades into the EAA's computer system.

 

"My report card's missing two or three classes," Mr. Smith said. "That's really a problem."

 

A grandparent, who submitted a statement through a spokesperson but asked not to be named for fear of reprisal against her granddaughter, said similar errors on her granddaughter's report card left her ineligible for Upward Bound college orientation program.

 

Marianne McGuire, a former Detroit teacher and State Board of Education member, said she had other students with similar stories who, for a variety of reasons, were afraid to come to the meeting Tuesday.

 

The board did not, as is its practice, engage in discussions with those who appeared for public testimony, but did ask John Covington, chancellor of the EAA, to attend its August meeting to talk about the issues raised Tuesday and other concerns raised about the district for failing schools during its first year of operation.

 

Board member Michelle Fecteau (D-Detroit) urged the board to also invite EAA teachers to testify. "I think these teachers, and some of the students I've talked to as well, they've convinced me it's worse than my reservations," Ms. Fecteau said.

 

Superintendent of Public Instruction said he had heard about the problems in the EAA, as well as about the positive things happening, as he had for a number of other districts around the state.

 

A spokesperson for the EAA did not have a comment in response by Gongwer's deadline.

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The New School Library

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As libraries continue to change with the growth of technology tools, good schools know that libraries and professional librarians are still essential to their missions.

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Why do seven out of 10 change programmes fail?

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Although most change programmes are highly planned and robustly executed, it’s a fact that the majority fail to achieve the objectives set out at the start of the programme. They fail to achieve the result of changing people’s behaviour so, consequently, they also fail to achieve sustainable change. Therefore, no matter what the aspirations, how compelling the business need or how much money is being invested in these initiatives they consistently fail to achieve the transformational shift required by the business.


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How has technology transformed the role of a teacher?

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Technology allows students to become more independent in the classroom. But is the change from teacher to facilitator a positive move for the profession? Mike Britland is firmly in favour

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Ilana Rosansky's comment, Today, 3:11 AM
Yes. Technology in teaching serves the teacher and the learners. I'm not sure that that makes the teacher a 'facilitator' any more than s/he is already that! But it is a great resource and we are all enriched by it!
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We are all enriched by technology so long as we use and do not abuse it!

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Goede tips van Mike.

- Ga uit van wat je leerlingen wilt leren en kijk dan of technologie iets toevoegt. Niet? dan niet inzetten. - Ga niet voor het laatste nieuwe product. Kijk of jouw "apparaat" kan wat jij met leerlingen wilt ondernemen. Misschien wel de beste tip: hou vol. Als iets niet werkt, probeer dan iets anders.
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Education Week: A Steep Climb: Journeying Into the Common Standards in English/Language Arts

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States and districts face big challenges putting the common core into practice. Join an Education Week staff writer to discuss one district’s experience.
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Creating Opportunities for Students to Celebrate Themselves

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As a teacher, in fact as a parent, friend even human being, I would like to think that I have encouraged and supported people around me to celebrate their unique stories, talents and traits.  I thi...

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Focus on Teachers: Adie Buchinsky, Helping All Students Meet the ...

Special education teacher Adie Buchinksy has been immersed in the new Common Core State Standards as part of a teacher team at CHIME Institute Charter School in the San Fernando Valley. Adie and her colleagues have ...


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Learning Objectives - Learning Outcomes: What is the Difference?

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Learning outcomes v. Learning objectives. Is there a difference? what do you think? I suggest that learning outcomes give students a destination to reach for, an expectation to achieve. Learning ob...

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This post provides an image that looks at what we should consider as destination points for our students as they work on learning objectives. Have you consider using project-based learning and having that be an objective? How about a gamification objective? A few others are described in this infographic as are words to consider for the learning outcome.

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Content Literacy - LiveBinder

Addressing adolescent and ELL literacy needs. 100's of free resources and tools.
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Becoming explicit

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Our old technology — paper — gave us an idea of knowledge that said that knowledge comes from experts who are filtered, printed, and then it’s settled, because that’s how books work. Our new technology shows us we are complicit in knowing.

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Good thinking for the future from Harold Jarche.

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Collaboration Style is a Question of Organizational DNA - CMSWire

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CMSWire Collaboration Style is a Question of Organizational DNA CMSWire In my work I see that there are as many views of “collaboration” as there are companies — some companies are simply content with email, some approach collaboration as a project...

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TeacherVision's Favorite Summer Reading Resources for Teachers (Grades K-12) - TeacherVision.com

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Now that summer is here, your students may need more encouragement to keep up with independent reading. That's where our summer reading resources come in!

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Nik's QuickShout: What do you feel are the key digital literacy skills that 21st century learners need?

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Gongwer News Service - Michigan

Teacher Evaluation Plan Coming Soon      

The Council for Educator Effectiveness is planning to release its final proposal for a teacher evaluation system before it officially expires at the end of the month, but it is still putting some final touches on its report and wants to send that out for review, Deborah Ball, chair of the council, told the State Board of Education at its meeting Tuesday.

 

Without revealing details, Ms. Ball said the council believes it has developed a plan that will allow review of teachers even in cases, as now, were state standards are changing or in courses where there currently are no state standards.

 

The system also had to be something districts could actually implement, Ms. Ball said.

 

"We were juggling all the time how much money will there be, how much time is there for this and will this be fair to everyone," she said.

 

The goal of the system also is not to weed out the worst teachers, but to show each teacher where he or she can improve, she said. Districts and the state then need to ensure professional development is available to help those teachers overcome their shortcomings.

 

"Useful feedback isn't, 'You are not a skillful teacher,'" she said. "You would have to have focused professional training."

 

Ms. Ball said the least effective teachers are also the least of the system's problems. "The most we talking about is 5 percent of the teaching force," she said. "What we're concerned about is the next group up. They're good at some things; they're not as good at other things."

 

That group, she said, can improve with the right evaluation and instruction.

 

One thing the report likely will have is a recommendation that the observation include both administrators and peers.

 

"One wants to have some sympathy for the high school principal who might have been a middle school social studies teacher and is now being forced to evaluate a high school math class," she said.

 

The system would allow that principal to make some valid observations, but "you want someone observing at least some of the time who is familiar with the subject matter," she said.

 

While the plan is to have the Legislature approve the plan in short order and have it in place for the 2014-15 school year, Ms. Ball also warned that it would likely need some tweaking once in place. "It might take a few cycles of building an educator evaluation system to get it working perfectly," she said. "We might have to plan to stick with it for a while until it gets better and better."

 

CHARTER SCHOOL OVERSIGHT: It is still unclear what guidance the board might have for the Legislature in adjusting the charter school laws. The board split 4-4 on a proposal that was designed allow the Department of Education to resume its prior practice of not providing school district numbers to new charters until they had completed applications.

 

A recent attorney general guidance said the department was overstepping its legal authority in not issuing the numbers within 30 days of receiving an application.

 

The board voted on the resolution only because board member Lupe Ramos-Montigny (D-Grand Rapids) raised concerns that the board was not moving on the issue. She joined three other Democrats in supporting the resolution.

 

But board member Dan Varner (D-Detroit), who seconded her motion to call the question on the resolution, opposed it, arguing the department had yet to provide him a list of items that were essential to having a completed application.

 

While supporters of the resolution said the requirements were laid out in statute, Mr. Varner and some others countered those requirements might not be reasonable.

 

One sticking point was a physical address. While the department was requiring that, some charter supporters had said that was not always possible to provide until the charter had an approved application to provide to a landlord to show it had the authority to lease a building.

 

Mr. Varner was concerned the policy could give advantage to charters backed by management companies that had real estate arms.

 

He said again that his preference would be to get all schools, traditional and charter, away from having to provide their own properties and facilities.

 

The department is expected to come back with more suggestions on the issue in August.

 

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June 2013 Issue Brief - Teacher Evaluation

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Education Chief Lets States Delay Use of Tests in Decisions About Teachers’ Jobs

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Responding to complaints, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said states could postpone for a year using more rigorous tests to make career decisions about teachers.

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Newsela - An Innovative Way for Students to Build Reading Skills

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The Dark Side of Dual Enrollment - The Conversation - The Chronicle of Higher Education

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End of the Year Activities- Ideas for Teaching, Resources for Lesson Plans, and Activities for Unit Planning

As the school year is finishing up, I always find myself looking for some fun activities to do with my students. Here's a collection of ideas to help you wrap up the end of your year in a fun way.>

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How You Can Get Involved in Youth Jobs+ | The White House

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Learn how you can get involved in President Obama's Youth Jobs+ initiative, a challenge issued by the President to increase employment opportunities for low-income or disconnected youth and decrease juvenile violence.

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Taylor Mali's inspirational poem cleaned up a bit (aka censored) for a teacher's inservice audience. Original show by Ethos3.com located at http://www.slides...

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