Friday, October 31, 2014
Thursday, October 30, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 10/31/2014
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Get Rid of the Performance Review! - WSJ
- The boss's assignment is to guide, coach, tutor, provide oversight and generally do whatever is required to assist a subordinate to perform successfully.
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Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 10/30/2014
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Wild Weather Kitchen Experiments - OpenLearn - Open University
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8 Psychological Principles to Make a Memorable Presentation
- One must imagine they are talking to a child when presenting.
- Great presentations are about brevity and levity.
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Every presentation must add value to the audience’s life.
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Saturday, October 25, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 10/26/2014
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Lisa Nielsen: The Innovative Educator: The hottest posts everybody's reading
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Gateway - Curriculum | Project Lead The Way
STEM curriculum with professional development options.
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google tricks, hour of awesome - Google Docs
Hundreds of great tricks for use with Google products.
Friday, October 24, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 10/25/2014
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Open Educational Resources Commons
Lesson plans integrating tech tools sorted by subject.
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Learn how to embed photos and videos while forming adaptive assessments for students.
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EdTech Professional Development get $1500 for the course.
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Lesson plan combines financial literacy and legislation surrounding poverty.
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Free Educational Accounts for K-12 | Lucidchart
Create flowcharts, mind maps and graphic organizers that can be worked on in real time simultaneously.
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SumoPaint is like photoshop but it operates in your browser.
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Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 10/23/2014
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What Reflects a Great School? Not Test Scores - Education Week
Trust and relationships among all constituents build strong schools.
- Enduring achievement gains require not only applying content and concepts worth knowing, but also ensuring that learning is occurring in a healthy, thriving culture as well
- Is the principal visible in classrooms and noticing and commenting on teachers' and students' strengths?
- And—not to be minimized—are teachers and students enjoying instruction and learning?
- Joy in learning is essential to a healthy and productive school culture; fear and joy cannot coexist.
- People who are anxious with worry, concerned for their safety, or treated disrespectfully do not take risks or work well with others, nor do they perform their best work.
- Successful principals and other education leaders deliberately model and take trust-building steps with and for their school communities every day.
- They listen without judgment, are open to divergent viewpoints, communicate clearly and respectfully, and are humble in their actions and demeanor.
- They celebrate teachers' strengths before evaluating them. They give feedback that is useful and actionable.
- A caring, well-organized, and well-managed environment helps promote a sense of well-being and optimism
- Research has clearly shown that teachers become more effective, efficient, and joyful when they have time to plan, observe, problem-solve, coach, and learn together.
- Successful principals foster a collaborative atmosphere by creating time for classroom teachers and specialists to
- The most effective principals and education leaders also take their own professional learning seriously and become highly knowledgeable so they can ably guide and coach teachers.
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Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 10/22/2014
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Tips for Parent-Teacher Conferencing | Edutopia
- Whatever support you ask from a parent needs to be something that is within her sphere of influence.
- Always convey a growth mindset. All behaviors can change given the right conditions. If you want to see changes and have concerns about a student, be prepared to offer specific, actionable solutions
- If this is the first time you're sitting down with parents, it's a great opportunity to hear their perspective on their child's school experience so far, on what their child likes to do outside of school, on the questions and concerns they have about their child, and so on.
- Don't underestimate the power of the positive, and lead with it.
- Be specific in the positive data you share -- tell an anecdote or show a piece of work.
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Integrating the 16 Habits of Mind | Edutopia
"New ways to think about how people learn."
Monday, October 20, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 10/21/2014
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Common Mythconceptions - World's Most Contagious Falsehoods | Information Is Beautiful
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Lesson plans that use technology and the natural world to create stimulating projects.
Build Your Own PLN
Thursday, October 16, 2014
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
Sunday, October 12, 2014
Teaching Teachers
I had the teachers rate each topic and then I averaged their scores, and also looked at the mode, to see that I had selected the right sessions for our faculty.
In the end, I chose to offer three half hour sessions on five topics (yes, I repeated a topic.) Here is what happened. The teachers became so invested in their learning that most of them stayed with one topic the entire time. Who was I to say, "stop your learning and move on to something else?" Below I offer up the topics and tools our teachers explored.
Friday, October 10, 2014
Thursday, October 9, 2014
Wednesday, October 8, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 10/09/2014
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STEM resource for inspiration, design, building and testing machines. This section is the FAQ, check out the rest of the site.
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Tips for Grading and Giving Students Feedback | Edutopia
- Rubrics aren't just about summative feedback, "Here's how you did," they are also a sort of preemptive feedback, "Here's what you need to do."
- allow a student to choose the section or numbers they feel best represent their comprehension
- Rotate groups of students that get more percentage of your attention.
- Teach the students to give the first wave of feedback to each other.
- Carol Jago reminds us that it's the students job to correct their errors. In fact, it would be even more powerful for them to identify the errors in the first place using hints provided by you
- Develop a key of symbols that you can use in the margins instead of writing in sentences or bullets.
- This will require students to translate as well, which embeds the lesson even further.
- Sometimes, assignments will take a huge leap in quality when students think someone other than their own teacher is seeing them.
- Keep the final grade of an assignment as a carrot dangling until the feedback is read, attempted, and proven. Make them solve some of the problems in the assignment based on your feedback, and trade their solutions for access to their score.
- You conference; they write.
- Stagger due dates for your classes.
- Ask them what worked and what didn't. Model your own comfort at criticism and they will work harder at their own.
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Tuesday, October 7, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 10/08/2014
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Tinkering meets camp.
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Maker Ed: Projects & Learning Approaches
Maker Ed has sourced project ideas from schools, clubs, nonprofits and independent websites.
Monday, October 6, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 10/07/2014
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Dan Meyer's blog- exceptional math teacher and flip teaching expert.
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Find a grant through this index.
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Doctopus + Classroom + Goobric = :) - YouTube
Great video on how to attach rubrics to student work through Google Classroom.
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Types of Flipped Classroom - Byron High School Mathematics Department
Friday, October 3, 2014
Thursday, October 2, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 10/03/2014
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5 Chrome Extensions for Teachers – Part 3 | Teacher Tech
Look at I am studying for distraction free workflow.