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07 Oct 09
More Challenges with Wikis: 4 Ways To Move Students from Passive to Active -- THE Journal
While wikis provide an engaging and accessible tool for collaborative work with students, there can be an easy shift back to regular teacher-driven methods in their use as it is difficult and challenging to continue to facilitate collaboration throughout a wiki project. The technology itself does not develop the skill, nor is it the teacher; the technology is only a tool, and teachers must remain committed to the collaborative process, if students are to engage fully and develop the skills necessary to work collaboratively with their peers.
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01 Oct 09
D.C. Launches Rigorous Teacher Evaluation System - washingtonpost.com
D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee has launched a rigorous evaluation system that will make some District teachers among the first in the nation to have their job security tied to standardized test scores.
Teacher Magazine: Stepping Aside: The Art of Working With Student-Teachers
Members of the Teacher Leaders Network discuss the best ways for experienced educators to support student-teachers in their classrooms.
11 Aug 09
Get SMART with SMART Boards
SMART Board experts Harvey Almarode and Jim Hollis share resources and provide information on how to use Notebook to help teachers use the SMART Board more effectively in the classroom.
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Mike Fisher, an instructional coach and education consultant, has created an interesting wiki called Visual Blooms. Visual Blooms inserts web resources into the hierarchical categories of Bloom's Taxonomy. Web resources are placed into the categories of remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating. For example, Delicious is placed in the remembering category while VoiceThread is placed in the creating category.
Thanks to Beth Still for sharing the link to Visual Blooms on Twitter.
28 Jul 09
NZ Interface Magazine | Eight habits of highly effective 21st century teachers
We hear a lot about the 21st century learner – but what about the 21st century teacher? Andrew Churches investigates what makes them succeed. What are the characteristics we would expect to see in a successful 21st century educator? Well, we know they are student-centric, holistic, and they’re teaching about how to learn as much as teaching about the subject area. We know, too, that
27 Jul 09
Rethinking Professional Development: Comprehensive Approaches to Ensuring Effective Teaching
As teacher quality is the number one factor affecting student achievement, improvement in teacher effectiveness is a top federal priority. This forum reviewed the status of professional learning in the U.S. teaching profession and showcased two comprehensive models implemented in school districts that use continuous professional development that have proven effects on student achievement and the quality of instruction in the classroom. The Long Beach Unified School District is exemplary in its use of internal resources to improve teacher effectiveness through year-round professional development linked to school improvement strategies. The Urban Teacher Residency program of the Academy for Urban School Leadership in Chicago ensures continuous improvement of teaching through intensive pre-service training, classroom residency, induction coaching, use of student-level data to inform instruction, and mentoring for teachers in urban schools that have been targeted for school turnaround.
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