Tag: Teaching
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Ways You’ll Know You’re Teaching Your Ass Off
This post resonated with me, it was from @TeachThought You’ve spent as much (or more) time redesigning assessments than you have “re-teaching.” You’ve cried at least twice. You know the reading level of every single student, no matter what content area you teach, or how many students you teach. Students grow more confident as the…
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Does Common Core Ask Too Much of Kindergarten Readers?
http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2015/04/27/does-common-core-ask-too-much-of-kindergarten-readers/ I wonder if anyone in this discussion finds it as sad as I do. Having recently read the research on age development of boys in “Boys Adrift”, I recognize that the final straw that will keep young men from being successful is the “all day” kindergarten [mislabeled to avoid search engines]. Proponents argue it…
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Why schools are failing our boys
Now that I have more information about boys and school I am finding more articles and information on the subject. In this piece, today on the Washington Post, the author hits the high points of the common argument and quickly. Check some of the related links at the bottom of the article, there is more…
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Reading: boys adrift
I get asked many times a year about what I now realize are topics including what Dr Leonard Sax MD, PhD calls “Failure to Launch” in his book boys adrift, summarized with “why does my son test so high and yet is so disengaged in school.” A lot of what we are discussing in education and in the world…
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Computing Teachers Concerned That Pupils Know More
I saw this article today and wondered why? Why is the conclusion that students should share their expertise? Students who perform at the top, whether because of higher self efficacy or practice are not utilized for this in every other area. Why not stand the model on its head and PAY for an educator with…