Badges How to: Using Your Classroom Rubrics to Design a Badge System. Recently teachers and administrators have been asking us for ideas on how to go about implementing badges in their own schools.
In this post, I’m going to describe two approaches for how to take existing classroom rubrics and design complimentary badge systems. This approach has several advantages: a significant part of the work necessary for designing the badge system has already been done in developing the rubric,teachers can continue to assess students with a proven rubric andthe badge system integrates well with the existing learning activities. Approach 1: Recognize Skills and Achievements A primary motivation for Mozilla’s development of Open Badges was in order to recognize skills and achievements that aren’t traditionally recognized.
Teachers in areas such as Physical Education, Technology, Special Education and Art are already seeing the value of badges for recognizing their students’ achievements. I Used to Think... I used to think bad teachers needed to be fired.
Now I realize bad teaching largely exists because of a lack of exposure to good teaching. USA Today: U.S. Has a Poverty Crisis, Not a Schools Crisis. Believe it or not, USA Today published a powerful article by Oliver Thomas, a member of its Board of Contributors, acknowledging that the latest PISA rankings reflect the crisis of poverty in the United States.
Our Students in low-poverty schools are doing fine; some analyses place them at the very top. But the more poverty, the lower the test scores. He writes: “As researchers Michael Rebell and Jessica Wolff of the Campaign for Educational Equity at Teachers College, Columbia University, have noted, there is no general education crisis in the United States. There is a child poverty crisis that is impacting education. 10 Habits Of Effective Teachers. Smarter Teaching: 10 Ways You’ll Know You’re Doing It Right by TeachThought Staff Notice that we didn’t use the more vague “good teacher” phrasing.
Believing in Students: The Power to Make a Difference. To Help Students Learn, Appeal to What They Value. The 3 Biggest Dangers of Using Grades as Motivators. One of the fundamental issues with most teachers’ grading schemes is that they continue to treat each grade as a reward or a punishment, rather than simply as a measurement.
How Leadership Can Make or Break Classroom Innovation. The leaders of a school or school district play a big role in setting the culture and work environment for teachers.
And when it comes to trying new things, the attitude of principals and superintendents can sometimes make or break a teacher’s willingness and ability to weave new ideas and methods into the teaching practice. In most schools, strong, effective leaders can make all the difference. In addition to setting the tone for nimble and progressive teaching that’s geared towards what students need most, school leaders can also find ways to integrate technology in smart ways that work on the same goals. Whats-lost-as-handwriting-fades. For Twitter. These pre-crafted tweets and tweetable graphics will help you show your support for Connected Educator Month 2014.
And don’t forget to use the #ce14 hashtag whenever you talk about Connected Educator Month on Twitter. Connected Educator Month #ce14: Own it, worldwide. My Plan for a Free and Open Internet. SAMR as a Framework for Moving Towards Education 3.0. Evolution, in its broadest sense, serves as a force to help humans move towards a better way of living given the current times or Zeitgeist.
It follows, then, that the education field should evolve as new opportunities and forces emerge and present themselves. But in general, this is not the case. From the Time Magazine article, How to Bring Our Schools Out of the 20th Century. Schedule - 4T Virtual Conference: Teachers Teaching Teachers about Technology. Class size matters a lot, research shows. P.ost. ThinkBinder. Welcome to ThinkBinder.
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What’s Lost as Handwriting Fades. Does handwriting matter?
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