In education-crazy South Korea, top teachers become multimillionaires. SEOUL — Clasping his headphones and closing his eyes as he sang into the studio microphone while performing a peppy duet with one of South Korea’s hottest actresses, spiky-haired Cha Kil-yong looked every bit the K-pop star. But Cha is not a singer or actor. No, he’s a unique kind of South Korean celebrity: a teaching star. And the song he was singing with Clara, a Korean mega celebrity, in a music video that wouldn’t be out of place on MTV? It was called “SAT jackpot!” In this education-obsessed country, Cha is a top-ranked math teacher. Here, teaching pays: Cha said he earned a cool $8 million last year. Cha keeps many masks and props in his SevenEdu filming studio.
“I’m madly in love with math,” said Cha, looking the height of trendiness in his crimson shirt and pants and tweed jacket, in his office in Gangnam — a wealthy part of Seoul famous for its conspicuous consumption and featured in the song “Gangnam Style.” It’s hard to exaggerate the premium South Korea places on education. New teaching model a 'game changer' Hundreds of students have just completed new courses in the College of Arts and Sciences’ Active Learning Initiative (ALI), part of a strategic effort by the college to embrace engaged learning models and emerging technologies.
The ALI five-year pilot project is funded by Alex and Laura Hanson, both Class of 1987. ALI uses a “flipped classroom” approach: Knowledge transfer happens before class, through assigned reading material or videos. Class time is then used for “deliberate practice,” applying the new knowledge via problem-solving and reasoning to give students experience making and testing predictions and solving problems. Studies have shown that the deliberate practice model is the quickest path to expert-level mastery of a given skill set.
Physics and biology, the pilot departments for ALI, each converted large course sequences to the new model and reach almost 3,000 students. The College of Arts and Sciences is partnering with the Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) in ALI. Cartoons Only a Teacher Would Love. Need a laugh? I sure do. Here ya go......................... There’s No "I" in Teacher: 8 Rules of Thumb for Collaborative Planning | Edutopia. 5 Strategies For Better Teacher Professional Development. 5 Strategies For Better Teacher Professional Development by Joel Zarrow Just as a teacher has to create conditions that support and encourage student success, school districts have to support teachers’ professional development.
Today, professional development runs the gamut from one-shot workshops to more intensive job-embedded professional development, which has teachers learn in the day-to-day environment in which they work rather than getting pulled out to attend an outside training. However, the National School Boards Association’s Center for Public Education report, “Teaching the Teachers,” notes that most professional development today is ineffective because it neither changes teaching practices nor improves student learning. Professional development for teachers can fall short in numerous ways, including: How Districts Can Turn Professional Development for Teachers Around According to the report, effective professional development offers: Keep it simple. 20 Free Tools for Making Comics and Cartoons for Teaching and Learning.
There are so many good free tools for creating comics and cartoons on the web, as well as apps for tablets and smartphones. I've built out a list of fun tools I am looking forward to trying out over the upcoming holiday break. I can't wait to brainstorm creative ways to leverage these in lessons! Click to view original, large image Note that some of these tools offer very different types of functionality. It's important to explore them yourself before introducing them students. Web Apps for Cartooning and Comic Creation ToonDoo: “Fastest Way to Create Comic Strips and Cartoons”: www.toondoo.com BitStrips: www.bitstrips.com/create/comic Make Belief Comics: www.makebeliefscomix.com/comix (you don't even have to create an account to use this) Create Your Own Comic from Marvel: marvel.com/games/play/34/create_your_own_comic Pixton: www.pixton.com Comic Creator from Read Write Think: www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/comic Strip Creator: www.stripcreator.com Toonlet: toonlet.com.
Why Teaching Math In Elem School Is Counterproductive. 25 Of The Best Resources For Teaching With YouTube. 25 Of The Best Resources For Teaching With YouTube by TeachThought Staff As both hardware and software design improve, the possibility of mobile learning is increasingly accessible. Video is undoubtedly at the core of a modern mobile learning experience. (As opposed to, say, an early 20th century “mobile” experience that was likely hands-on, place-based, and experiential.) To actually be useful beyond the cool-video-as-a-writing-prompt-every-once-in-a-while stage is going to require smarter tools. With that in mind, below are 25 of the best resources for teaching with YouTube. 25 Of The Best Resources For Teaching With YouTube. A Quick Guide To Teaching Hour Of Code 2014 | TeachThought. A Quick Guide To Teaching Hour Of Code 2014 by TeachThought Staff What is Hour of Code? Hour of Code is a week-long promotion of the teaching and learning of computer coding.
“The Hour of Code is designed to demystify code and show that computer science is not rocket-science, anybody can learn the basics,” said Hadi Partovi, founder and CEO of Code.org. “In one week last year, 15 million students tried an Hour of Code. Now we’re aiming for 100 million worldwide to prove that the demand for relevant 21st century computer science education crosses all borders and knows no boundaries.” When does it start, and how long does it last? It runs December 8-14, 2014. How do I participate? Tweet about it. What resources do I need? This post will help, but also apps and platforms–Scratch, Codea, Khanacademic, Codeacademy, HopScotch, etc. When should I have started planning for this? Not today–probably a couple of weeks ago, when we should’ve shared this post. 9 Simple Ideas For Teaching Hour Of Code “1. 2. A Quick Guide To Teaching Hour Of Code 2014.
What's the best teaching method? Seventy teachers from the UK were sent to Shanghai to study classroom methods to investigate why Chinese students perform so well. Upon their return, the teachers reported that much of China’s success came from teaching methods the UK has been moving away from for the past 40 years. The Chinese favour a “chalk and talk” approach, whereas countries such as the UK, US, Australia and New Zealand have been moving away from this direct form of teaching to a more collaborative form of learning where students take greater control. Given China’s success in international tests such as PISA, TIMSS and PIRLS, it seems we have been misguided in abandoning the traditional, teacher-directed method of learning where the teacher spends more time standing at the front of the class, directing learning and controlling classroom activities.
Direct instruction vs inquiry learning Debates about direct instruction versus inquiry learning have been ongoing for many years. Click to enlarge. Teachers: Once in a Lifetime Professional Development Opportunity Now Open! Calling all teachers—this is the moment you’ve been waiting for! We’re looking for 25 K-12 educators currently teaching in the U.S. or Canada, to join us in 2015 for an all-expense-paid, adventure of a lifetime. This field-based PD experience could take you to the Arctic, Greenland, the Galapagos, Holland & Belgium, or even Antarctica! Photograph by Susan Seubert Applications are open until January 4.
Click here to learn more and apply today! Photograph by Valerie Craig Photograph by Eric Guth The Grosvenor Teacher Fellow (GTF) program is a professional development opportunity made possible by a partnership between National Geographic Education and Lindblad Expeditions. Like this: Like Loading... Related Teachers: Join us for the adventure of a lifetime Calling all teachers! In "Classroom Ideas" Six educators voyaging to the land of the polar bear Endless days. Educators on Expedition: Touch, See, Hear, Smell, and Build! In "Exploring Our World" Even teachers can learn a thing or two. Teaching Literary Analysis. Literary analysis is a vital stage in the development of students' critical thinking skills. Bloom's Taxonomy illustrates that analysis should come at the fourth level, right after comprehension and application. What this means is that students must be able to understand and describe the text before they are able to analyze its elements.
Teaching literary analysis is often a daunting and overwhelming task. After all, it is essentially guiding students slowly through the process of critical thinking and understanding literature. That’s not a simple undertaking. Most importantly, with so many ways to go about doing it, where to begin? To guide students toward discovering literature all on their own, the steps of this process need to be introduced in a simplified form. 1. Some students need guidance when choosing a topic, but others have ideas that they would like to explore. Characters Themes Literary devices Setting Narrative. 2. 3. Identify common themes, repetitions, and patterns. 4. 5. 5 Unique Online Classes Teaching Girls to Code for Free. By Jamie Littlefield Unique new coding courses are combining creativity and programming to encourage more girls to develop an interest in computer science. Although the need for programmers continues to increase, only 14% of computer science graduates are female.
Enticing online programming courses are helping girls gain confidence and interest in coding so that they are later able to enter college programs as prepared as their male peers. Take a look at these top 5 high-quality online coding courses to see what may work for your daughter: Made with Code (elementary school and older) Google’s Made with Code website offers beginning coders the opportunity to learn hands-on coding by completing unique projects such as creating an animated GIF, designing a 2D avatar, and turning a selfie into a kaleidoscopic image. The Made with Code site also helps prospective coders connect with Makers and Mentors – women who have succeeded in the field. CodeQuest Website Adventures (elementary school) A Beginner's Guide To Personalized Learning | TeachThought. A Beginner’s Guide To Personalized Learning by TeachThought Staff There is a difference between personalized learning and differentiation.
Differentiation is a kind of personalized instruction, where teachers adjust process, & product, according to a student’s readiness, interest, & learning style. Planning of the learning starts with the content, and the content remains the same for all students. This is a school and curriculum-centered approach that attempts to amend the delivery of the content to match the student’s needs, strengths, and general readiness. Personalized learning starts with the learner and asks the question, “What does this student need to understand, and how best can that happen?”
This is a student-centered approach, and is built around the idea of recognizing the vast differences in students–not just in terms of literacy or schema, but an authentic need to know. What is personalized learning? A Beginner’s Guide To Personalized Learning. 4 Ideas For Motivating Adolescent Male Readers. 4 Ideas For Motivating Adolescent Male Readers By Kenny McKee It’s no secret that state and national assessments continue to indicate that boys lag behind girls in the area of reading.
The gap tends to grow larger as students enter adolescence. It’s also no secret that many teenage boys dislike reading — in class or at home. Just ask a high school teacher…or a teenage boy. While it’s not true that all teenage boys dislike reading, there is a growing trend of many becoming unmotivated readers. Obviously, students who are resistant to reading are unlikely to get better at it. 1. Oftentimes, teachers emphasize the importance of reading skills or reading content by saying, “You will need this for the test,” or “You will need this for college,” or “When you get to the real world, you’ll need to be able to do this.”
We can make the reading we choose for whole-class instruction more motivating by relating it to the “here and now.” 2. 3. 4. Changes To Teacher Ed Programs Coming Soon In The US. The job of teacher is vastly different today than it was a decade or a generation ago. School districts, schools, and communities have had to adjust and adapt to new educational demands and new expectations. Despite this, teacher preparation today is still largely the same as the preparation teachers have received for generations. This is a disservice to schools, students, and teachers themselves. The research is clear that having a great teacher is the single-most important element of learning for children, particularly those in high-need schools. Yet we have resisted making the changes needed to ensure that prospective teachers have the academic preparation, clinical experiences, and mentoring necessary to become those excellent teachers.
The new draft teacher preparation regulations from the U.S. From our work in states like Georgia, Indiana, Michigan, New Jersey, and Ohio, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation knows that such change must come at the state level. 5 Things to Share With Your Teachers About Educational Technology. Even today, we still have teachers across the country fighting the integration of educational technology into their classrooms. Many use similar excuses as to why they should not waste their time learning technology.
The simple fact is that they typically are nervous to learn something new and possibly failing. I think everyone can understand that feeling (especially in front of our peers and our students). So... they make up a variety of reasons why they think it is a bad idea to spend time on technology use, or they simply just close their door and leave the technology in the corner of the room. What do we do? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. We know that technology has changed education and it is only going to continue to do so. What is Mystery Skype? 7 steps to help teachers get started!
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