Transforming Teaching and Leading
An Educator-led Movement RESPECT represents a movement within the education profession to elevate and transform teaching and leading so that all of our students are prepared to meet the demands of the 21st century. As the demands of our world continue to expand, our students need educators who are well prepared, compensated, and treated as professionals. A New Vision for Teaching and Leading After two years of discussion with teachers, school leaders, and other stakeholders, the President has unveiled a Blueprint for RESPECT [PDF, 4.5MB | ePub, 1.2MB ]. Seven Critical Components A Culture of Shared Responsibility and LeadershipIn a transformed profession, educators take collective ownership for student learning; structures of shared decision-making and open-door practice provide educators with the collaborative autonomy to do what is best for each student; and the profession takes upon itself the responsibility for ensuring that high standards of practice are met. Trace the Path of RESPECT
Breaking News English ESL Lesson Plan on Selfies
MULTIPLE CHOICE - QUIZ ROLE PLAY AFTER READING / LISTENING 1. WORD SEARCH: Look in your dictionary / computer to find collocates, other meanings, information, synonyms … for the words 'social' and 'network'. Share your findings with your partners. Make questions using the words you found.
How to Tell a Story with Data - Jim Stikeleather
by Jim Stikeleather | 11:00 AM April 24, 2013 An excellent visualization, according to Edward Tufte, expresses “complex ideas communicated with clarity, precision and efficiency.” I would add that an excellent visualization also tells a story through the graphical depiction of statistical information. So how does a visual designer tell a story with a visualization? Find the compelling narrative.
21st-Century Learner
The 21st-century learner is here–is your classroom ready? By Mark Stevens NEA members attending this year's RA got a look at technology that could transform teaching and learning in their classrooms.Photo by Calvin Knight No one sees more clearly than educators how the technologies we use in our daily lives influence how students learn. Yet the typical physical building where all that learning takes place has remained largely the same over the last 100 years. Learning environments aren’t revolutionized by installing a few cool gadgets here and there. NEA Executive Director John I. It’s up to educators to find the best ways to integrate technology in fulfilling curriculum requirements, but many useful technologies are available off the shelf, some even for free. What does this 21st-century classroom look like? Look around and you’re likely to see: Interactive demonstration boards that allow the class to work through the material together. Joseph Cicero Toni C. So where do we start?
Readers Theater/Language Arts/High Frequency Words/Math/Music and much more for Teachers
Visualization as Process, Not Output - Jer Thorp
by Jer Thorp | 8:00 AM April 3, 2013 “Please make me a visualization.” I get a lot of emails that say this or some variation of it. “Please make me a roast beef sandwich.” Or: “Please make me a scale model of the Eiffel Tower.” Roast beef sandwiches and scale models of the Eiffel Tower, in these sentences, are common nouns. “Please visualize our data.” The nice thing about this sentence is that it may result in many things. In 2009, I was asked by Jake Barton to design an algorithm that would place the nearly 3,000 names of victims on the 9/11 memorial in Manhattan in specific places, so that certain names could be near each other, per the wishes of their next-of-kin. The first step, then, was to get some idea of the scale and peculiarities of this particular problem. A visualization of the victim names and requested adjacencies for the 9/11 Memorial. I could have read the number of names and the number of requested connections from the spreadsheet. Visualizing DataAn HBR Insight Center
RSS Feed Search Engine
Instant RSS Search engine will help you discover RSS feeds on the web around your favorite topics. You may use the tool to search RSS feeds for blogs, news websites, podcasts and more. It is instant search and hence the search results display as you type. You may use any of the Google search operators - like allintitle, inurl, etc. - for more accurate results. You can subscribe to the feeds in your favorite RSS Reader (like Feedly) or use the Preview link to see the 10 most recently published articles from that feed.
Write an Essay - Writing Process
At this point in time, I would like all of you to get your pens and pencils out, your favorite piece of paper. Because we are about to Plan, Organize, Write, Edit and Revise. I've been there, procrastinating for days, Not putting anything on the page. But if someday you're trying to get paid, Put a little POWER in your writing game. It doesn't matter the form or the topic, Just use POWER like a socket. Yeah, we've got the POWER to write, Feeling so good, 'cause we powered the night. Plan first, decide what you're writing, What's a good ______ that will be exciting?
2013 Visual Thinking & Literacy Conference | Saturday, April 13, 2013 in Birmingham, Michigan
21 Signs You’re a 21st Century Teacher
Are you a 21st Century Teacher? Find out! PLUS if you can help me add to my list you may win a special $200 prize. Keep reading to find out how... 1. You require your students to use a variety of sources for their research projects...and they cite blogs, podcasts, and interviews they've conducted via Skype. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. BONUS 22: You're a member of the Teacher Learning Community...or have encouraged a teacher to join! SPECIAL PRIZE ---> If this post receives 100 comments (within 2 weeks of post date) with additional signs of being a 21st century teacher, I will pick one person at random to receive a FREE pass to the Teacher Learning Community and a runner up to receive an "I Heart EdTech" t-shirt. Share this post with your friends and colleagues:
AVID/English 9 - Ms Porter's Site
Welcome to AVID/English 9 with Ms Porter! Our class is in room 305. On this website you will find: information about the course (course outline)course-related linkselectronic copies of some notes and assignments E-mail Updates Students and parents can receive periodic mark updates via e-mail. Ms Porter's GMAIL Address for Google Drive: erinporter61@gmail.com ! Please see the calendar on my home page for important dates. Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Spoken Word Poetry Links Literary Terms Short Story Terms: Flashcards! Grammar Poetry Essay Writing This is a link to an Essay Map (organizer)
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Teachers' Expectations Can Influence How Students Perform : Shots - Health Blog
hide captionTeachers interact differently with students expected to succeed. But they can be trained to change those classroom behaviors. iStockphoto.com Teachers interact differently with students expected to succeed. But they can be trained to change those classroom behaviors. In my Morning Edition story today, I look at expectations — specifically, how teacher expectations can affect the performance of the children they teach. The first psychologist to systematically study this was a Harvard professor named Robert Rosenthal, who in 1964 did a wonderful experiment at an elementary school south of San Francisco. The idea was to figure out what would happen if teachers were told that certain kids in their class were destined to succeed, so Rosenthal took a normal IQ test and dressed it up as a different test. "It was a standardized IQ test, Flanagan's Test of General Ability," he says. After the kids took the test, he then chose from every class several children totally at random.
