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Raise Your Hands (Techlearning blog)
3 behaviors to break, plus some positive actions to take to foster collaborative and constant professional development
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Thus, this article isn't another push for organizations to embrace a collaborative learning culture. It is a push for teachers to stop waiting for the organization and become a collaborative professional learner by changing fundamental behaviors inhibiting this and embracing action items that will allow it to happen.
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The number one skill that teachers will need is to be team-based, collegial, sharing their knowledge and wisdom.
Personal Learning Networks (personal and community-focused) « Escape Velocity
interested in how web 2.0 technologies support and enhance personal and community-focused learning, and can even occur with great impact without any face-to-face contact at all
Research/Practice - Fall 2000 Authentic Intellectual Work: What and Why (CAREI)
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Research on school restructuring across the nation indicates
that lists of specific practices and strategies are not likely to stimulate
higher quality work, because they may be implemented in ways that promote
a high or low quality of intellectual work. -
We called such
intellectual work "authentic" because it requires high-level cognitive performance
(i.e., rigorous, in-depth understanding instead of only superficial acquaintance
with memorized bits of knowledge) and it results in personally, aesthetically
or socially useful products and services, instead of completed exercises
that were contrived only for the purpose showing of competence or to please
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ERIC - A national perspective: an exploration of professional learning communities and the impact on school improvement efforts
ERIC 491997: A number of initiatives designed to improve student performance and the quality of teaching are available for educational leaders. One such initiative is professional learning communities.
ERIC - Education Resources Information Center - The three big ideas for PLCs
Professional learning communities consist of three big ideas: Ensure that students learn; create a culture of collaboration; focus on results (DuFour, 2004). Shifts from looking at what you teach to what students learn.
Research/Practice - Fall 2000 Authentic Intellectual Work: What and Why (CAREI)
prof dev project helped teachers understand & implement "authentic" teaching, esp to create more challenging,interesting assessments to evaluate learning. Results show that teachers can improve their assessments and when they do, students perform at highe
Doug Johnson: Rubrics to guide professional development
rubrics for tech literacy/info literacy for teachers' prof devq
dla2007 » home
The Digital Learning Academy is a three day, hands-on educational workshop by Wes Fryer, focused on helping teachers blend collaborative learning technologies into creative, powerful lessons and projects for K-12 students
Doug Johnson Website - dougwri - One Step Back
One Step Back, Two Steps Forward: What’s Needed to Teach Teachers to Use Technology Effectively. presentation handouts with lists of teach tech competencies, tchr self-eval rubrics, training assessment tools
Doug Johnson Website - dougwri - Getting What You Ask For
Getting What You Ask For: Creating Effective Assessment Tools for Projects, Personnel, and Program. session houndouts on checklists and rubrics for pbl, prof dev, pgm mgt
K12 Online Conference 2007 » About
The “K12 Online Conference” is for teachers, administrators and educators around the world interested in the use of Web 2.0 tools in classrooms and professional practice! October 2007
Anecdote: Staff induction - it's just learning
Staff induction needs to be more gradual and unfold over time as we experience the organisation we've joined. We need a slower and longer-term approach, one that better balances intellectual and emotional learning.
CoPResearch - communities of practice research wiki
This site provides an opportunity for networking and supporting knowledge exchange between research and action on Communities of Practice. Wiki to connect people, research questions and categories. new, few resources on 21 Mar 07
MFLE - Modern Foreign Languages Environment
for modern languages information, news, resources and ICT in Scotland; blogs, podcasts, resources, professional development & other resources for foreign language education; Ewan McIntosh's org
PBS TeacherLine
resources for online professional development for k-12 teachers
PBS TeacherLine . Courses . Catalog | PBS
PBS TeacherLine courses are offered either locally or nationally.
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