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18 Nov 09

Fairfax schools debate language instruction and its costs - washingtonpost.com

A must read for anyone that teaches world languages, or cares about those that do.

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17 Nov 09

That Quiz - Math Test Activities

You can create your own quizzes or use those of others. It let's you register your classes online and provides them with a key to access the tests you create.

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SAMPLE REALITY · Teaching Technologies for Large Classes

    • The problem with 40 students is that there is no way to read (much less comment upon) every post if every student is posting every week. I am toying then with a rotation model (inspired by Randy Bass),  in which students are divided into five groups of  eight students, cycling through these five roles:


      • Role 1 – Students are “first readers,” posting initial questions and insights about the reading to the class blog by Monday morning
      • Role 2 - Students are “respondents,” building upon, disagreeing with, or clarifying the first readers’ posts by class time on Tuesday
      • Role 3 - Students are “synthesizers,” mediating and synthesizing the dialogue between first readers and respondents by Thursday
      • Role 4 - Students are responsible for the week’s class notes (see next section on Wikis)
      • Role  5 – Students have this week “off” in terms of blogging and the wiki

      I like the rotation model because each group of students is reading for and reacting to something different. The shifting positionality affords them greater traction, offers greater variety, and guarantees a dialogue without comments from myself.

Careers for History Majors

"Historians as Educators

Elementary Schools
Secondary Schools
Postsecondary Education
Historic Sites and Museums

Historians as Researchers

Museums and Historical Organizations
Cultural Resources Management and Historic Preservation
Think Tanks

Historians As Communicators

Writers and Editors
Journalists
Documentary Editors
Producers of Multimedia Material
Historians As Information Managers
Archivists
Records Managers
Librarians
Information Managers

Historians As Advocates

Lawyers and Paralegals
Litigation Support
Legislative Staff Work
Foundations

Historians in Businesses and Associations

Historians in Corporations
Contract Historians
Historians and Nonprofit Associations"

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13 Nov 09

Portfolios (Authentic Assessment Toolbox)

  • Portfolio: A collection of a student's work specifically
    selected to tell a particular story about the student
  • A portfolio is not the pile of student work that accumulates over
    a semester or year. Rather, a portfolio contains a purposefully selected
    subset of student work. "Purposefully" selecting student work
    means deciding what type of story you want the portfolio to tell.
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