Professional Development to Support Academic Literacy and English Language Development. Shawn Benjamin, Yanira Canizales and Lauren Klaffky The Need for Ongoing Professional Development Based on a review of overall data, LPS-Richmond and LPS-Hayward have chosen literacy as a primary focus area for professional development in the coming year. At LPS-Richmond there will be a particular emphasis on promoting literacy skills among English Learners, given that the vast majority of students speak English as a second language and the remainder has limited exposure to academic language at home.
While the “College Access Readers” provide resources to support classroom instruction in these areas, materials alone will not ensure that all teachers are proficient in critical content literacy and English Language Development (ELD) strategies. In order to ensure that strategies to facilitate the acquisition of academic language actually impact student achievement, literacy support must extend beyond providing teacher resources to include ongoing professional development.
5 Critical Mistakes Schools Make With iPads (And How To Correct Them) Over the last few years K-12 schools and districts across the country have been investing heavily in iPads for classroom use . EdTechTeacher has been leading iPad professional development at many of these schools and we’ve seen firsthand how they approach iPad integration.
While we’ve witnessed many effective approaches to incorporating iPads successfully in the classroom, we’re struck by the common mistakes many schools are making with iPads, mistakes that are in some cases crippling the success of these initiatives. We’re sharing these common challenges with you, so your school doesn’t have to make them. 1) Focusing on content apps The most common mistake teachers make with iPads is focusing on subject-specific apps. In doing so, many completely overlook the full range of possibilities with the iPad. I think of a Latin teacher who declared the iPad useless because he couldn’t find a good Latin app. And we don’t introduce a single subject app.
It doesn’t. Focusing on iPad-versus. Make. Write. Remix. Share. What do programmable books, multimedia poetry and DIY clubs have in common? They're all examples of ways that a growing number of educators -- in school and out, at libraries, museums and other cultural institutions, at home and at community gatherings -- are engaging in making things and leveraging the learning associated with that very human impulse to create. This summer, the National Writing Project, the place where I work, in partnership with the MacArthur Foundation, is leading an effort called Educator Innovator. It's an initiative in which a constellation of organizations (including Edutopia) are providing dozens of opportunities for educators to do things like joining webinars on innovative practice, or building a game register for a MOOC focused on making and learning.
It's all free and all open to anyone. The Summer of Making and Connecting Undergirding these opportunities is a set of design and learning principles called Connected Learning. A Community of Creators. Sharpening your skills this summer and organizing them, too! | The Common Core Classroom by Emily Stewart | Blogs about Reading. Last weekend I broke out my beach towel for the first time this year … it felt oh so incredible!
I LOVE the smell of summer! Growing up in Southern California, I truly relish the summer sun, knowing that our two months off fly by. Every year, as I am taking down bulletin boards and filing my piles of papers away, I always have one thought: "this is the summer I will organize myself ahead of time, and plan like there's no tomorrow! " Anybody else have those thoughts (thumbs up)? I feel like organizing for the next year is two-fold. With the Common Core, sharpening my concept of what the shifts of the CCSS are and how they need to look to students is key. Sharpening Those Common Core Skills Imagine it's the second week of summer break and you sit down and type "Common Core State Standards" into Google.
Achieve the Core This site is from one of the top researchers who helped develop the Common Core Standards. ASCD Enough said. Organizing! Live Binders Have you discovered Live Binders? Charlotte Danielson’s Framework for Teaching. Update on Charlotte Danielson’s FFT, Teachscape, and eVAL. The Framework for Teaching, created by Charlotte Danielson, is a comprehensive and coherent framework that identifies those aspects of a teacher’s responsibilities that have been documented through empirical studies and theoretical research as promoting improved student learning.
The Framework for Teaching is a validated” instrument; that is, studies have shown that teachers who receive higher ratings on their evaluation produce greater gains in student test scores. The Framework for Teaching is one of the instructional frameworks approved by OSPI for use in Washington State’s pilot programs in teacher evaluation. But there is a long history of its use in the state; it already serves (either in its original form or with slight modifications) as the foundation of mentoring, professional development, and evaluation systems in numerous school districts, including some of the largest. The Danielson Group. Charlotte Danielson - Assessing Teacher Effectiveness. Resources/Danielson FFT_10_29_10.pdf. Teacher Effectiveness - Professional Learning. What Schools Can Do | Center on Early Adolescence. Building More Effective Schools | Center on Early Adolescence. The value of strong schools Children need strong schools in order to thrive.
Our schools can increasingly become places that use research-based principles to nurture social and academic development. Our schools can teach a small number of clear rules, monitor and richly reinforce students for following them, enforce rule infractions consistently, and significantly reduce the use of punishment. They can provide recognition and reinforcement for good academic work, academic improvement, and good citizenship, and they can foster warm, positive relationships between students and adults. Our schools can provide all students with meaningful roles in classrooms, school governance, and extracurricular activities so that there are opportunities for every student to help other students, contribute to their school and community, and learn new skills in the process.
Our schools can expose students to diverse positive role models and engage students in community actions or “service learning.” Welcome to the Center on Early Adolescence | Center on Early Adolescence. Educators and Practitioners Page | Center on Early Adolescence. These pages are intended for educators and practitioners who work directly with children, youth, and families. You can find information on youth development and the status of youth well-being, the costs of problem behaviors, as well as information about how communities and states can help build families, schools, and communities that foster successful development.You will also find tools to help support your program decisions, including detailed information on evidence-based programs to help youth and families succeed.
Please note that although the majority of the data we present for illustrative purposes are from Oregon, the content is relevant across geographic regions. A General Overview Our Current Condition: The Prevalence of Problems The Cost of Youth Problem Behaviors Benefits of Positive Youth Development What Schools Can Do to Raise Successful Youth Building Strong Families Building More Effective Schools Building Strong Communities Building a More Effective Juvenile Justice System. New Jersey. New Jersey Student Learning Standards In 1996, the New Jersey State Board of Education adopted the state's first set of academic standards called the Core Curriculum Content Standards. The standards described what students should know and be able to do upon completion of a thirteen-year public school education.
Over the last twenty years, New Jersey's academic standards have laid the foundation for local district curricula that is used by teachers in their daily lesson plans. Revised every five years, the standards provide local school districts with clear and specific benchmarks for student achievement in nine content areas. The New Jersey Student Learning Standards include Preschool Teaching and Learning Standards, as well as nine K-12 standards for the following content areas: 21st Century Life and Careers Comprehensive Health and Physical Education English Language Arts Mathematics Science Social Studies Technology Visual and Performing Arts World Languages. Robert Sun: Emotional Fuel and the Power to Motivate Students. Most people think raw intellectual talent is the primary marker for academic success among children. But new insights are proving that motivation is perhaps even more important to learning than innate intelligence.
One widely cited study , recently published in the journal Child Development, supports the view that motivation and cognitive learning strategies outweigh intelligence as the top factors driving long-term achievement, particularly in math. Led by Kou Murayama, a post-doctoral psychology researcher at the University of Munich, the study measured gains in math proficiency over a five-year period among 3,500 German students in grades five through ten. The study also asked the participants about their attitudes toward math. While the study acknowledged that initial levels of achievement among children in the study were related to intelligence, the level of motivation and the use of cognitive strategies were better predictors of growth over time for academic success.
About | NJ Council for the Humanities. The mission of the NJCH is to develop, support and promote projects that explore and interpret the human experience, foster cross-cultural understanding and engage people in dialogue about matters of individual choice and public responsibility. The Council’s Horizons Speakers Bureau supplies lecturers to nonprofit organizations in humanities areas as wide ranging as ethnic studies, history, literature, interpretation of the arts, and public policy.
Clemente Courses offer high-quality, post-secondary education in the humanities to young adults in New Jersey’s underserved communities who have the potential to succeed in college. The Teacher Institute, the centerpiece of NJCH’s educational programming, runs yearly residential seminars for K-12 teachers that provide a content-based approach to professional development. To date, NJCH has conducted 39 residential seminars, 60 school-based workshops, and a multi-school seminar using interactive television technology.
ICD-10 Codes - Dyscalculia.org. Home > 2013 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Codes > Mental, Behavioral and Neurodevelopmental disorders F01-F99 > Pervasive and specific developmental disorders F80-F89 > Specific developmental disorders of scholastic skills F81- F81.2 is a billable ICD-10-CM code that can be used to specify a diagnosis. On October 1, 2014 ICD-10-CM will replace ICD-9-CM in the United States, therefore, F81.2 and all ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes should only be used for training or planning purposes until then. Applicable To Developmental acalculia Developmental arithmetical disorder Developmental Gerstmann's syndrome Type 1 Excludes acalculia NOS ( R48.8 ) ICD-10-CM F81.2 is part of Diagnostic Related Group (MS-DRG v28.0): 886 Behavioral & developmental disorders Home > 2013 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Codes > Mental, Behavioral and Neurodevelopmental disorders F01-F99 > Pervasive and specific developmental disorders F80-F89 > Home > 2013 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Codes > Mental, Behavioral and Neurodevelopmental disorders F01-F99 >
Common Core. Professional Development. The 13 MUST Know Professional Development Websites for Teachers. 1- Education World This is a great website that offers all the resources you need to grow professionally. It has different sections with each one full of PDFs, books, articles an many more . 2- Discovery Education There is no way that you did not hear about this awesome website. 3- Staff Develop This is another great resource for professional development.It provides articles, books, workshops, and many resources links. 4- Ed Week Ed Week is a also one of the leading websites in education. 5- Educators Professional Development The title says it all. 6- Read Write Think This has a separate section dedicated to professional development resources . check it out , it is really great. 7- Teacher Vision Teacher Vision provides a wide range of professional development resources for educators such as articles, lesson plans, links and many more. 8- Teachers Domain This is a free digital media service for educational use from public broadcasting and its partners. 9- Getting Smart 10- Common Sense Media.