A Useful Framework For Transparency In Education. A Useful Framework For Transparency In Education by TeachThought Staff Transparency in education is important for a variety of reasons. Increasingly teachers are encouraged to work in professional learning communities, data teams, and other structures intended to encourage teachers to work together to unpack standards, plan instruction, assess learning, analyze data, revise instruction, re-analyze data, and then evaluate the impact of individual teaching strategies. The idea of both vertical alignment (i.e., same content area, different grade level) and horizontal alignment (same content area, same grade level) both depend greatly on visibility–what’s being taught, when, and how. Further, a common and viable curriculum has been described by education research analyst Robert Marzano as the “first school-level factor,” and one of the most significant factors in student achievement. “The Framework provides ideal components of a transparent institutional website in terms of student learning.
Edutopia - Timeline Photos. Teaching Students to Fail ExitTicket Student Response System. Teaching Students to Fail I write on the interactive whiteboard as we discuss preliminary opinions Failure, when done well, can lead to tremendous success. The experience can be enlightening: It can lend perspective, provide actionable feedback and be the impetus for students’ drive to do better. But failure can also be a crushing emotional experience that cripples motivation. As educators, we can do a lot to see that our students take their inevitable and wonderful failures in a learned, optimistic state of mind. Teaching students to fail gives essential character while it changes a classroom to a more participatory, less fear-driven culture. Teaching Students to Fail: Character Education When talking about failure, there are two names that come to mind — Levin and Seligman — though neither are losers.
An example Scorebook that’s using the Learning Targets app Character education should be a thoughtful component in all content areas. Teaching Students to Fail: Games Components of a Game 1. Design Thinking: Tools to help make thinking visible. The British science, technology and arts research organisation Nesta, along with European social innovation experts, have pulled together their top 30 tools for social innovation. Many of them have immediate uses for helping plan and structure design thinking activities in the classroom. We explain some of those that have the most immediate value for learning. The Why Design thinking is not rocket science, but when a school is trying to bring a concerted approach to thinking differently, it helps for people to have a common set of tools and language on which to pull or things can appear complicated quite quickly.
The DIY toolkit provided by Nesta's programme provides a good overview of some of the top social innovation tools that help those making a difference through innovation. The Experiment Today without any prompting, students employed these skills and I was wishing that my camera was on hand to record their questions but I was too busy being blown away. The Tools Synthesis. Design Thinking: Tools to help make thinking visible.