Colored Vintage Paper: Texture Pack This free set of 20 vintage/aged paper textures contains textures that are each 3600x3600px in size, high-resolution, and in JPG format. I use textures a lot in my illustrations and in my tutorials, so I made a variety of colors so that I would have a library to choose from. Now, I’m sharing them with you. Preview Colored Vintage Paper Texture 01 (Aqua) Download Colored Vintage Paper Texture 02 (Blue) Download Colored Vintage Paper Texture 03 (Brown) Download Colored Vintage Paper Texture 04 (Dark Blue) Download Colored Vintage Paper Texture 05 (Deep Blue) Download Colored Vintage Paper Texture 06 (Deep Green) Download Colored Vintage Paper Texture 07 (Deep Orange) Download Colored Vintage Paper Texture 08 (Deep Red) Download Colored Vintage Paper Texture 09 (Grey) Download Colored Vintage Paper Texture 10 (Light Yellow) Download Colored Vintage Paper Texture 11 (Lime) Download Colored Vintage Paper Texture 12 (Magenta) Download Colored Vintage Paper Texture 13 (Midnight Black) Download Download Download Download
If students designed their own school… it would look like this Student Peter Boyce(By Charles Tsai) “It’s crazy that in a system that is meant to teach and help the youth there is no voice from the youth at all.” That’s the opening line in a video called “If students designed their own schools,” about The Independent Project, a high school semester designed and implemented entirely by students. What did it look like? No quizzes. No tests. The Independent Project started in 2011 at Monument Mountain Regional High School, a public school in Massachusetts, after a student named Sam Levin advanced an idea about students creating their own learning environment in order to find the engagement and mastery he felt were lacking in many teacher-designed classes. In this model, teachers serve as mentors and coaches, not as direct instructors, while students pose questions and find ways to answer them. After the first semester, an evaluation was undertaken and changes were made to the model. Here’s Tsai’s video:
Some Bizzare and Odd things around us… Beauty of the nature lies in viewer’s eyes. A photograph is just a way to show or represent that beauty. Here is a bunch of some wonderful pictures which are not only the example of beautiful photography but are also a photograph of some miracles happening in the world. You can also call it the creativity and innovation of photographer’s mind. I think it was at the peak while taking these pictures. Some are really very cute and heart touching. I am simply in love with these photographs and I am sure you will too. Gibraltar Airport is one of the most extraordinary airports around the world. Morning Glory – kind of clouds observed in the Gulf of Carpentaria in northern Australia. The river above the river: Magdeburg Water Bridge, Germany. Heavy fog in Sydney, which enveloped the whole city. Skyscraper-Crescent Crescent Moon Tower (Dubai). Photo of storm in Montana, USA, 2010. Lighthouse guard in Mare, France must be one of the most courageous people on the planet! In northwestern Montana, USA.
How Math Got Its Groove Back 49913Dance by NumbersCarrie Lewis, a STEM specialist in Lynchburg, Virginia, explains the lesson plan that she and fellow teacher Kelly Steele devised to teach their fifth grade students number patterns. 2013-01-16 13:35:00disabledssmB_MtgJ_kfalse This is an edited version of a video produced by Jill Granger. To view the original video, click here. Carrie Lewis and Kelly Steele’s fifth grade students slide and spin across the classroom floor, doing the hustle, the robot and the running man. Lewis, a STEM specialist for Virginia’s Lynchburg city schools, and Steele, who teaches gifted education in Bedford county, Virginia, are both math enthusiasts eager to instill in their students a love of the subject. “Dances are patterns,” Lewis said. Both teachers are part of Sweet Briar College’s STEM teacher education program, where they worked together to design “dance by numbers,” a lesson plan that relies on dance to teach pattern recognition. Identifying a Pattern: Making Their Own Moves:
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Why Creative Teaching is Essential For the Information Age | Education on GOOD There’s a belief in this country that every student should graduate from high school with the same standard set of knowledge. This standard curriculum is lengthy, and states spend many years—and plenty of money—creating fancy bullet-pointed lists of the subjects students are expected to know. Sadly, the list of facts and formulas students need to perform well on a standardized test is freakishly small in comparison. My experience as a classroom teacher has shown me that teenagers are interested in almost anything taught well and with passion. I teach kids how to do their taxes in my calculus class, and they love it. Yet taxes generally are completely ignored by the standard high school math curriculum. I'm continually amazed how teaching an applicable skill piques students' curiosity and prompts them to do more research. Unfortunately, the test-driven push to quickly cover the state-mandated curriculum is growing.
Project-Based Learning Leads to Innovation - Global Learning The number one question I am asked is what teaching for the global innovation age looks like. My colleague Lisa Tyrrell offers a glimpse at promising practices. By Lisa Tyrrell At the recent Deeper Learning Conference at High Tech High in San Diego, keynote speaker Dr. Tony Wagner spoke about the importance of preparing students for the innovation economy. Many of the young, successful entrepreneurs that Wagner interviewed for his book noted that it was their project-based learning experiences that prepared them to be successful in the global innovation economy. How are schools working to encourage the next generation of innovators? For example, consider Brian Bailey, English teacher at the Ambassador School of Global Leadership in Los Angeles, California. Another good example comes from The Denver Center for International Studies (DCIS), where upperclassmen are afforded the opportunity to explore their personal passions through a program called Passages.
Researching Lost Children Evidence in my case study continues to mount … strangely. Though the girls exhibit clear signs of a shared delusion — the creation of an imaginary mother figure who protected them during their years of isolation — still, there are still some hard-to-explain details I’ve found, frankly, unsettling. 1. Survival. Most of all: how were these children able to live in isolation for five years? 2. 3. Conclusion: Did the girls have contact with one or more adults during their stay in the Helvetia cabin? I must investigate further.
classroom practice April 19, 2014 How Should Learning Teams Choose Essential Outcomes?How Should Learning Teams Choose Essential Outcomes? by Bill Ferriter One of the questions that I'm often asked in #atplc workshops is, "How should our learning team identify the essential and nonessential standards in our curriculum?" Continue Reading… April 16, 2014 Speak Less, Act Right by Justin Minkel The first time I read these words by a Holocaust survivor, they haunted me. Continue Reading… April 15, 2014 Chào mừng bạn đến Quốc Hoa Kỳ (Welcome to the United States) by Dave Orphal Opening up my e-mail and sipping on my third coffee of the morning, I read the following message: “Hello teachers. “Uh oh…” was my first thought. Continue Reading… Simple Truth: Hashtags Can Save You Time If there was ONE thing that I'd want every practicing educator to know about learning in social spaces it would be that no matter what field you are working in, there are TONS of folks who are sharing resources t Continue Reading… by Jessica Cuthbertson
Why A Principal Created His Own Currency : Planet Money David Kestenbaum/NPR Shawn Rux took over as principal of MS 53, a New York City middle school, last year. At the time, 50 or 60 kids were absent every day. You could understand why they stayed away: The school was chaos. Twenty-two teachers had quit, the entire office staff had quit, and hundreds of kids had been suspended. "It was in a bad place," Rux says. Rux decided he needed to create incentives for kids to come to school. He handed out raffle tickets to anyone who showed up to school on time. It worked. "It was ... like, 'Get out of my way, I'm trying to get into school,' " Rux says. Rux also created his own currency. The principal also stands outside school every morning, greeting the students as they show up. "I like this school," Wander Rodriguez says. The school went from an F to a C. The school is in Far Rockaway, Queens — one of the areas hardest hit by the storm. After the storm, after school started up again, Rux's goal was to get attendance back to 90 percent.
Teachers Are Awesome: This Physics Teacher Gives Students a Memorable Lesson About the Meaning of Life | Education on GOOD Ever have one of those teachers that made a tangible impact on you not just because their instruction was so amazing that you completely fell in love with the subject, but because they imparted unforgettable life lessons? Jeffrey Wright, a physics teacher at Kentucky's Louisville Male High School who's profiled in the above New York Times-produced video, is one such educator. The video was released just before the New Year, so if you missed it during all the hustle and bustle, you'll want to give it a view. You'll see that Wright's an incredible instructor—the passion he has for the subject, will make you wish he'd been your physics teacher, too—but, as he told the Times, "When you start talking about physics, you start to wonder, "What is the purpose of it all?'" Students started asking him "those ultimate questions," says Wright, "I wanted them to look at their life in a little different way—as opposed to just through the laws of physics—and give themselves more purpose in life."
A free school under a bridge in India Altaf Qadri / AP Founder of a free school for slum children Rajesh Kumar Sharma, second from right, and Laxmi Chandra, right, write on black boards, painted on a building wall, at a free school run under a metro bridge in New Delhi, India. At least 30 children living in the nearby slums have been receiving free education from this school for the last three years. Related content: Rajesh Kumar Sharma, teach Somnath, an underprivileged Indian slum child at the school. Students help to keep the school clean.