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Part 2 of 3 of "The Flipped Class" Series - Guest Posts... 
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Either way, the brain seems to consolidate new language over time, researchers find... A high school teacher applies Dr. William Glasser's theories to student - and staff - behavior. 
UPDATED | After an all-night negotiating session in Albany, New York State education officials and the state teachers union reached an agreement on a new teacher evaluation system on Thursday, just hours before a deadline imposed by Gov. 
Ian Jukes "committed me" a while ago. We live in a time of exponential change, and education serves our students only if it prepares them to live in the world as productive citizens. When we th... Through digital storytelling we motivate our learners to apply, contextualize, visualize, and personalize the language they learn. Here are some of the 100s of free digital tools and websites to inspire your learners to create extremely imaginative stories and share them with a global audience. Via Eric Stockmeyer @stockmeyer1 
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At its core, the issues associated with mobile learning get to the very fundamentals of what happens in class everyday. At their best, cell phones and mobile devices seamlessly facilitate what students and teachers already do in thriving, inspiring classrooms. Students communicate and collaborate with each other and the teacher. They apply facts and information they’ve found to formulate or back up their ideas. They create projects to deepen their understanding, association with, and presentation of ideas. Via Nik Peachey 
We also realize there is a lot of mis-information about the Flipped Classroom and quite a bit of controversy about whether or not this is a viable instructional methodology. 
"The Flipped Classroom is an intentional shift of content which in turn helps move students back to the center of learning rather than the products of schooling."... 
I asked the students to get in small groups to discuss these questions. They got in their groups and just looked at one another with baffled looks on their faces while remaining silent. I tried rewording the questions and providing examples and still got blank looks when they returned to their group discussions. Via Nik Peachey 
Flipped Classroom is an inverted method of instruction where teaching and learning take place online outside of the class while homework is done in the classroom. Advocators of this approach believe that this is the ideal method of instruction in our digital age. They basically build their judgement on the following facts Via Nik Peachey 
In the first instalment of his brand-new series, Nik Peachey looks at podcasting and how it can be used to help students develop their listening and speaking skills both inside and outside the classroom. 
10% homework, 40% quizzes, 20% participation….. sound familiar? 
Evernote For Schools Site: Resource for Using Evernote in Education http://t.co/RAGiDzWj via @zite... 
If you can type, you can make movies...
Enhance your lessons with a movie
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The Government's budget announcement for 2012 to abolish the Modern Languages in Primary Schools Initiative (MLPSI), which supports the learning of foreign languages in over 550 primary schools nationally, should be rethought. Mission Statement: To provide vision, leadership and support for quality teaching and learning of languages. |
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