New Classrooms Can Change Children's Brains. Children come to school with different aptitudes, many of which determine their ability to learn.
Some are quicker at grasping the concepts and skills that form the core of most educational curricula. Others are better able to concentrate or make friends. Some seem lazy; others determined. As a result, we label children as smart, attentive, social and hardworking—or as slow, distracted, shy and lackadaisical. The labels suggest fixed traits, not teachable skills. In recent years, however, researchers have begun to parse the basic brain functions that form the foundation for many of the qualities and abilities necessary to succeed in school—and in later life. Select an option below: Customer Sign In *You must have purchased this issue or have a qualifying subscription to access this content.
12 Most Stifling Reasons You Aren't As Creative As You Could Be And How To Change That Now! Practice makes perfect.
Education jargon: What ‘no excuses’ and other terms really mean - The Answer Sheet. This was written by Joanne Yatvin, a veteran public school educator, author and past president of the National Council of Teachers of English.
She is now teaching part-time at Portland State University. By Joanne Yatvin Way back when I was a college student, one of my professors warned the class to avoid using jargon in our papers. By jargon he meant big words of indeterminate meaning. Top 10 TED Talks from Inspiring Teachers. TED is one of my favourite video platforms where , when time allows, watch inspiring videos of not only educators but leaders and enthusiasts from all other fields.
We , in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning, consider TED as a video resource of huge potential in education and that is why we dedicated a whole section solely to TED videos , its news and updates. Today we noticed that TED Blog has published a great post featuring 10 talks from inspiring teachers and upon checking them ( some we have already seen before ) we found them worth sharing with you here. Check them out below and tell us what you think about them : Richard Lakin's Thanks2Teachers.com - A Wellspring of Teacher Appreciation and Teacher Inspiration > Home. The Case Against "Tougher Standards" By Alfie Kohn People who talk about educational "standards" use the term in different ways. Sometimes they're referring to guidelines for teaching, the implication being that we should change the nature of instruction -- a horizontal shift, if you will.
(In the case of the standards drafted by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics [NCTM] in 1989, for example, the idea was to shift away from isolated facts and memorized procedures and toward conceptual understanding and problem solving.) Fear & Loathing in Texas. Changing Lives One Film at a Time. Letter from Vicki Abeles to New York Times. [Susan notes: Pay attention to this letter.
Watch the film 'Race to Nowhere.' It is way past time for parents and teachers to ask themselves some hard questions about their own conduct.] Published in New York Times 07/03/ With Dyslexia, Words Failed Me and Then Saved Me. I WAS well into middle age when one of my children, then in the second grade, was found to be dyslexic.
I had never known the name for it, but I recognized immediately that the symptoms were also mine. When I was his age I’d already all but given up on myself. Repeating third grade at a new school, after having been asked to leave my old one for hitting kids who made fun of my perceived stupidity, I was placed in the “dummy class.” There were three of us, separated from our classmates at a table in the corner of the room.
One day, the teacher, who seldom spoke to us since it was understood that most of what she taught was beyond the reach of our intelligence, placed books in our hands and whispered that we should sit there quietly “pretending to read.” Education: Part Two: Video. Creating Innovators: Why America's Education System Is Obsolete. Real Innovation: What It Really Is, and How to Really Do It (Really) Posted on behalf of Bill O’Connor, who works in Corporate Strategy at Autodesk, and runs The Innovation Genome Project, which researches the top 1,000 innovations in world history looking for insights people can apply to their day-to-day work.
NCLB Outrages. What No One Said About NCLB Profiteering (Except the People Who Were Saying It) Recommended: Subscribe to Extra!
, a hard-hitting monthly magazine of well-documented media criticism. Extra! Receives no money from advertisers or corporate underwriters, and depends on subscribers for its existence. You can also follow them on Twitter @fairmediawatch by Peter Hart New York Times columnist Gail Collins had a good critique of standardized testing and the No Child Left Behind law (4/28/12), weighing in on the Pineapplegate controversy about a bizarre question that appeared on a New York English exam. She writes: We have turned school testing into a huge corporate profit center, led by Pearson, for whom $32 million is actually pretty small potatoes. Indeed. This is the part of education reform nobody told you about. Alan Watts - Life is a Hoax (or 'Man is a Hoax' if you will)