How Can We Identify "Good Teaching"? - Education. The brawl over teachers and test scores in Los Angeles is generating a much-needed public conversation about the use of standardized tests to measure teaching.
Another topic that needs more attention: What exactly is "good teaching"? It’s a difficult and potentially volatile question because it begs much bigger questions: What is a good education? And what should children get out of school? In today’s data-driven culture, policy debates about education are narrowly focused on what can be measured: namely, how students do on standardized tests. This is why there is so much focus on using tests to evaluate teachers. Teaching is too complex to be fully captured by a test score. That’s the problem with the debates about teachers now. About a year ago, I began work on a radio documentary called Testing Teachers. First, using test scores to judge teachers focuses attention on what individual teachers do to improve student learning. Complex work demands complex evaluation. English 101 – Lore. New TED-Ed Platform Aims to Bring TED Talks Into the Classroom - Education. Hundreds of millions of people around the world have learned about more than 1,000 topics thanks to the genius that is TED Talks.
With this week’s launch of TED-Ed, the organization that’s spent the past six years providing free YouTube access to "ideas worth spreading' is merging short lessons from excellent teachers with high-quality video production and animation in order to engage a new generation of learners. While many savvy educators already use TED talks in their classrooms, at 19 minutes each, they're a bit long for the average 50-minute high school class period. How to Create a Jeopardy Game Using PowerPoint. Power Point Jeopardy.
First of all, thanks for the good feedback on my instructions for a comparison/contrast graphic organizer.
I have used this particular graphic organizer many times since I learned how to make one, and after I’ve taught it to the students, all I have to do is instruct them to make a comparison/contrast organizer. Tips. Writing effective introductions video. Www.evgonline.com/Downloads/ppguide.pdf. Enthymeme. Teachers TV - The Department for Education. Cwabacon.pearsoned.com/bookbind/pubbooks/ramage2_ab/medialib/toulmin.pdf. Teachers: Teaching resources from the BBC. Teaching Techniques - Video. Teaching English : How to Write an Essay. Remixing Composition in the Writing Classroom: An Installation of Student Videos. Webpages.csus.edu/~sac43949/PDFs/whosesideistimeon.pdf. "Teaching Composition Online: The Quest for Classroom Community" by Letizia M. Guglielmo. Abstract One of the most difficult parts of teaching online writing courses lies in trying to create the community that students develop, often spontaneously, in traditional composition courses.
While teaching two sections of English Composition (English 1102) during the Fall 2004 semester at Kennesaw State University (one exclusively online and one in a traditional classroom), I found that despite my efforts to change little, if anything, in the course design for these two sections, the courses have been quite different. Although assignments and course activities mirror each other in both sections, outcomes on assignments, participation in course activities, and my interactions with the students vary greatly between the two sections. Recommended Citation. Search Results. Computers and Compostion Online. Heidiwiki / Teaching Composition Online. Barber, John F.
"Teaching and Learning in the Virtual Classroom: A Look to the Future. " Composition Forum: A Journal of the Association of Teachers of Advanced Composition 7.2 (1996): 111-18. Barber describes the realities and implications of virtual classrooms and concludes that this type of environment may provide "richer" learning experiences for students (113). He goes on to offer several practical recommendations for teaching online, urging instructors to provide models for student participation and allow for the possibility of face-to-face interaction, for instance. K A I R O S: 8.2. 78.01.08: Effective Methods For Teaching Paragraph Development. The Writing Dilemma Consider the hours of English instruction devoted to subjects and predicates, fragments, run-ons, prepositional phrases, subordinate clauses, dangling participles, verbals, topic sentences, supporting details, closing sentences, and other grammatical jargon, all of which is taught with the noble intention of improving the composition skills of our students.
For the most part, the result is the same: Weve spent three weeks on a writing unit and they still dont know what a topic sentence is! Similarly, consider the distraught teacher of social studies or science who, after reading a group of student essays or reports, points an accusing finger at the English teacher and asks: What are you teaching in your class? But most importantly, consider the anguished and frustrated student who, when seeing each of his written assignments splattered with red ink, reaches the tragic misconception that I cant write, so why bother? Establishing Goals Setting Up Your Program Notes.
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-- Ten Obvious Truths That We Shouldn’t Be Ignoring By Alfie Kohn The field of education bubbles over with controversies. Teach English. CIDR Teaching and Learning Bulletin 1(3) CIDR Teaching and Learning Bulletin 9(3) Center for Instructional Development and Research. Home — Learning & Scholarly Technologies.
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