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Floorplan Under Contract. 7 Things Happy People Say Every Day. Email You have the right words within you to make every day a happy one. Here’s what you need to say and why: 1. “Today is going to be a great day.” If you’re reading this right now, SMILE, you’re alive. The possibilities ahead of you are infinite, it’s true. Think about this and let it inspire you. A good life begins right now with a choice. Your life is for smiling, imagining, exploring, learning, hugging, sharing, caring, helping, and healing. 2.
William James once said, “Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.” If your daily work is becoming uninteresting, so is your life and so are you. That’s the key. 3. Forget failure, or any other outcome whatsoever. If things don’t work out the way you had hoped, hold your head up and be proud that you gave it your best shot. 4. Life is a choir made up of many voices, including your own. One day you’re going to look back on smiles and songs you shared with others and smile and sing some more. 5. 6. 7. A Simple Guide To 4 Complex Learning Theories. Character and Ethics.
In 1982 the curriculum guide entitled "Citizenship in New York City" was released.It was written in the course of 30 days by Cybrary Man and two other educators. These are some newspaper headlines about this guide: New York Daily NewsCan schools teach values if the parents can't? ... "In the early days, the citizenship course was designed to teach civics, to instill American democratic values in newly arrived immigrants," Salow says. "Today, we believe that many of the young people no longer ascribe to many of the American and democratic values.
Salow, who wrote the new course in 30 days with Public School 9 Assistant Principal Marvin Polansky and Jerry Blumengarten, a teacher at Junior High School 166, both Brooklyn, says the program was carefully drawn up to avoid the kind of controversy that has been associated with other attempts to instill a set of values in students... " New York TimesChildren Get a Course in Responsible Behavior City Hopes to Teach Children How a Citizen Should Behave. Education Quotes. These quotes are ideal for motivating teachers to keep offering students their best day after day.
Henry Brooks Adams: A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. A. Bartlett Giamatti A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching. Nikos Kazantzakis: Ideal teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross, then having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own.
Gail Godwin Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre. Richard Bach: Learning is finding out what we already know. John W. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form. R. Henry B. Benjamin Franklin: Tell me and I forget. Authentic Student Learning. Become an Anti-Earthquake Designer! Week 1 Set up groups - remember that you are working together as a group, so you are all responsible for the work. If you can not work together as a group, a new group will be created. Design your model and discuss your plans with your classmates. Some websites you may want to check out prior to designing: Building Safer Structures - USGS website Quake: Safer Structures, Engineering, and Building Codes - USGS Website General Earthquake Links Sketching Techniques - Sketching Practice - Monmouth Regional High School Linear Design Process - Monmouth Regional High School Dimensioning - Texas Trade & Industrial Teachers Powerpoint - Microsoft.com Multiview Drawing - California Engineering & Technology Alliance Together you should start designing a building that you think will withstand earthquake testing.
Keep in mind that you will only be able to use the following materials in the actual construction of your building. Up to 200 small popsicle sticks Up to 200 large popsicle splints Glue Week 2. An Updated Digital Differentiation Model. Ten months ago I published a Digital Differentiation model on this blog. I've been using the model to guide the work I do each day and I've been sharing it via webinars and hands-on training sessions.Of course, ten months is a long time in the world of edtech, and I've added some new tools and resources to my personal teaching toolkit, so I decided it was time to update the model and tweak it just a bit.
The original article and interactive graphic can still be found on this blog. Here is the new post: Technology is a tool that can be used to help teachers facilitate learning experiences that address the diverse learning needs of all students and help them develop 21st Century Skills, an idea supported by the Common Core. At it's most basic level, digital tools can be used to help students find, understand and use information. When combined with student-driven learning experiences fueled by Essential Questions offering flexible learning paths, it can be the ticket to success. “How To” Pedagogy Sheets | Tennessee Teaching and Learning Center. Welcome! Here you will find short 2-3 page articles related to specific techniques and issues. Feel free to print them for your own use. If you don’t see something you are interested in knowing more about, please feel free to contact us.
Thanks for visiting! What’s New: Case Study Using them in your class? Read more about the possibilities. Techniques to Try: Activities: Clickers : How can they improve my teaching experience and my students’ learning outcomes? Discussion may seem like an easy pedagogy to use. Fishbowl Technique: This guide explains how to facilitate a small discussion in a large group. Reflective Writing: This handout addresses different types of reflection writing, such as free-writing responses and journal writing. Resources: Artifacts in Your Course (using a museum): At UT, we have many places that we can take or send students for a “field experience”–including collections on campus at the McClung Museum and the Baker Center. Management Issues: Feds investigating makers of cell-phone apps for kids. More than 20 percent of the apps examined included links to social media services, meaning children could post comments, photos, or videos that could harm their reputations or offend other people.
The government is investigating whether software companies that make cell phone apps have violated the privacy rights of children by quietly collecting personal information from mobile devices and sharing it with advertisers and data brokers, the Federal Trade Commission said Dec. 10. Such apps can capture a child’s physical location, phone numbers of their friends, and more. The FTC described the marketplace for mobile applications—dominated by online stores operated by Apple and Google—as a digital danger zone with inadequate oversight over online privacy. In a report by the FTC’s own experts, it said the industry has grown rapidly but has failed to ensure that the privacy of young consumers is adequately protected. The FTC did not say which or how many companies it was investigating. Math game scores with students. “It’s really helped them out, because the kids are so good with games and technology,” algebra teacher Sue Cheung said.
“[But] to be a serious gamer you have to answer the question correctly, so your math has to be there. And if you don’t answer correctly, you might be playing, but you’re not going to be the high scorer.” Cook, who recently left her traditional teaching position to become the school’s math coach, said she first used the virtual game in her classroom four years ago. She hosted her own class competitions over the years and decided to turn the game into a learning community competition for the first time this year, modeled after the House Cup competition in the Harry Potter series of books and movies. “This tournament is just to help the kids come together as one and kind of have pride in their ‘house’—in their smaller learning communities—and just support each other in math,” she said.
Freshman Brycen Lee, a member of the winning house, Invictus, agreed. MoodGYM: Welcome. Webinar Recording: Brian Mull, Innovation Director of November Learning, #eTOP12 Micro-MOOC. Innovative learning designs | teaching and learning for the 21st century. Inquiry HUB. How to Fix Education in 5 Easy Steps! It is amazing how much things have changed in the last twenty years in the world around me. I currently live in an area I used to go to desert parties … I mean gatherings in, which is now filled with houses and businesses. When I was in high school I could practically fill my tank for $10, now it costs $80. Heck I used to have hair, now … well you get the point.
However one thing that has not changed very much in my opinion is education. Teachers are still grossly underpaid, the sage on the stage approach is still pervasive if not worse, math instruction resembles that of the Kahn Academy, teachers are not held in high regard. The only real change in education has come with high stakes testing and labels. Before schools could get by with relative anonymity as long as students could read and do basic math when they left school. Since high stakes testing has come into play we now make sure we “cover” material for the test. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Photo credit: Project Based Learning: The 10 Step Plan. For any District, this is a brave step into the unknown. There is a dramatic difference between conventional instruction and a student-focused, inquiry-based approach. Often, this can show up in poorly planned projects that leave students, teachers and administrative staff dissatisfied with results. PBL is a sophisticated methodology, with many moving parts, and teachers and staff developers may not recognize how challenging it is to implement—or how difficult to train for.
But it can be done right. Prepare the Ground. Thom Markham, Ph.D., is an educator, psychologist, recent author of the Project Based Learning Design and Coaching Guide: Expert tools for inquiry and innovation for K-12 educators, and the principal author of the Handbook for Project Based Learning, published by the Buck Institute for Education. Related Articles Comments & Ratings. Insanely Great Learning: Are we creating it? Do we have insanely great learning? What does it look like? Can we describe it using the power of story? Can we act as if this is going to be a transformational year for our classroom, our school, and our organization? These are the challenges from Nigel Barlow, author of the book Re-Think: How to think differently and keynote speaker at the recent Apple Canada Educational Leadership Institute.
I was fortunate to hear Nigel speak on innovation in leadership and how to be more adventurous in achieving your goals. “You can create or invent a more successful future for your organization,” encourages Nigel Barlow. Apple. In our work, do we use the power of story to invent the future? In Barlow’s session, we did not work on creating a mission or vision for our organization.
I met with a small group recently and used Nigel Barlow’s ideas to talk about Creating a Legend for Insanely Great Learning. This was an opportunity for those in the room to think about their work in fresh ways. Dream on. Competencies for 21st Century Learning. The competencies described in the Framework for Student Learning are the attitudes, skills, and knowledge that contribute to students becoming engaged thinkers and ethical citizens with an entrepreneurial spirit.
The graphic below illustrates the relationships among literacy, numeracy, competencies and subject/discipline areas outlined in the Framework for Student Learning. Explore related Education and Government initiatives and resources: Resources related to 21st Century Learning from National Organizations: Alberta Teachers Association (ATA) The Future of Teaching in Alberta (2011) The Politics of Personalization in the 21st Century (2010) Using Technology to Support Real Learning First in Alberta Schools (2010) Tech-Savvy Teachers Provide Students with 21st Century Skills (2008) 21st Century Literacies (2007) Canadian Education Association (CEA), Education Canada The publication Education Canada includes many articles about current educational research. The TES - Education Jobs, Teaching Resources, Magazine & Forums. Education Rethink - powered by FeedBurner. Rock. Stylus Academicus: What stylus is optimized for handwriting and conceptualizing ideas?
This is new! Record a video of iPad’s screen in any app « Douchy's Blog. There are numerous options for recording a video of one’s computer screen, from the free and simple, but limited Jing to more powerful, and correspondingly expensive offerings like Camtasia or Adobe Captivate. There are also a number of free Web 2.0 options such as Screenr. On a Mac you can even use the built-in QuickTime player that ships free on every machine! But until recently recording the screen of my iPad was limited to within an individual app.
Apps like ShowMe and LivePaper have been around for a while and the excellent ExplainEverything is far and away my favourite for recording a screencast from my iPad. But even using these tools, one is restricted to recording the screen within that one app itself. Sure you can import images or screenshots and doodle on them, and the app will record the screen and the self-talk you are providing to narrate. Enter* Disp Recorder. The Good: While recording, you can leave the Disp Recorder app and open another app. The Not-Quite-So-Good: Update. Powerful PD: Teachers Take the Learner's Seat. "What does it take to get really good at something? " Envision Schools teachers and leaders were given this driving question, launching our 2013 school year professional development. In this workshop, we asked our staff to be learners in a "Slice of a Project" -- facilitated by the Envision education support leaders, including yours truly.
We had taken the inspiration from Expeditionary Learning to provide an accelerated experience through a project as a learner before we asked teachers to design and implement projects. I documented our first "slice" in this Edutopia post. This year we were inspired by Kathleen Cushman who described a similar project on "getting really good at something," in her book Fires in the Mind. Our consulting division, Envision Learning Partners, uses this project slice in their professional development with teachers and school leaders around the country to introduce them to performance-based learning.
The following scenario was posed to teachers: Learning Happens When I Shut-Up.
Organisation. Maths.