Parent Partnership Solutions : Priority Schools Campaign. Although research has definitively proven that parents’ involvement in their children’s schools raises student achievement, most educators would agree that the process of getting parents fully engaged in school is no walk in the park. Unless they teach at Captain James E. Daly Elementary School in Germantown, Maryland, that is. Twice a year, Daly’s teachers, staff, and administrators hold a “Walk in the Park” at nearby Middlebrook Mobile Home Park, where more than 60 percent of the school’s Hispanic students live. It’s a way to say hello to familiar faces, and to break the ice with new families and those who’ve been reluctant to visit the school, which is about a mile away. “We’ve found that if you want parents to come to you, first, you have to come to them,” says Georgina Fountain, a music teacher at Daly and the school’s Maryland State Education Association representative, who joined her colleagues at the most recent Walk in the Park.
Solution: Listen up! Seizing the Moment for Mathematics - Getting Smart by Tom Vander Ark - William Schmidt, Michigan State University, may be the most widely respected math researcher of our time.
He is a member of the National Academy of Education and a fellow of the American Educational Research Association. He has long been a critic of state math standards, “For years now it has been clear that the U.S. mathematics curriculum is a mile wide and an inch deep, and that the fragmented quality of mathematics instruction is related to our low ranking on international assessments.” Schmidt recently used compared the Common Core State Standards to the standards of other nations. As he reported in an Education Week, “The common-core math standards closely mirror those of the world’s highest-achieving nations.” And, “If the standards of the world’s top achievers in 8th grade mathematics are any guide, then the common standards represent high-quality standards.”
Schmidt’s international comparisons have identified three key characteristics: Schmidt concludes that. The 21 Signs you are A 21st Century Teacher. Teaching in the 21st century is definitely not an easy task.
Students are digitally focused and have more free access to information challenging thus the traditional prototypic picture of the teacher as the knowledge instigator. Engagement is also another serious issue that makes educating such kind of students a real nightmare. It takes so much creativity, originality, and novelty from the part of teachers to get students motivated and engaged. Technology has the cure but this cure can not be effective unless teachers know how to use its prescription. Teachers need to acquire certain digital skills that are detrimental to the success of their instruction and without which no learning objectives could be cultivated. Another resource which I highly recommend for any 21st century teacher is the awesome learning community called Simple k-12. The 6 Characteristics of A Successful Educator. Jessica Hagy, a contributor in Forbes, has made an excellent account of the 6 main characteristics of people you should be around.
While checking her article I instantly remembered the article I wrote a year ago called the 21st century teacher skills. There is a huge similarity between the two but what really attracted me in Hagy's post and which pushes me to share it with you here is the awesome illustration she employed. She used some catchy sketches that are alone enough to give you the gist of it all. Going through her list I found out that those are the same characteristics educators and teachers need to look for and hence we entitled this post The 6 Characteristics of a Successful Educator. The Do's and Don'ts of Supporting the Reluctant Teacher. I want to talk about a mythical creature – the Reluctant Teacher.
This teacher has no desire to try anything new – it either does not interest them, or they do not see how it can possibly improve the way they teach. Despite the whole school, and even the whole profession heading in a particular direction, the Reluctant Teacher does their bit in holding back the tide. MiddleWeb. Helping Children Around the World to Read and Learn. Teacher Lists for Classroom Supplies and Teacher Supplies. Responsible Thinking Website. Training.