The revolution that’s changing the way your child is taught | Ian Leslie The video does not seem remarkable on first viewing. A title informs us that we are watching Ashley Hinton, a teacher at Vailsburg Elementary, a school in Newark, New Jersey. Hinton, a blonde woman in a colourful silk scarf, stands before a class of eight- and nine-year-old boys and girls, almost all of whom are African-American. “What might a character be feeling in a story?” On an October morning last year, I watched Doug Lemov play this video to a room full of teachers in the hall of an inner-London school. Here is what Lemov sees in the video: he sees Hinton placing herself at the vantage points from which she can best scan the faces of her pupils (“hotspots”). He sees Hinton constantly changing the angle of her gaze to check that every pupil is paying attention to whoever in the room is speaking, and silencing anyone who is not doing so with a subtle wave of her hand. Lemov never considered himself a brilliant teacher. Characteristically, he started with a spreadsheet.
30 stvari koje niste znali, a popravit će Vam dan. Ozbiljno. – Alternativa Informacije Ako imate loš dan, to će se upravo promijeniti. Toliko stvari vam može pokvariti dan. Možda vam je teško na poslu, ili ste u svađi s svojom boljom polovicom? njuškica.hr QUESTIONS TO ASK OURSELVES What do we want our students to learn from us? Results? Do we want children to get excited about school because they want to learn something new or do we want them to get excited about getting an A and beating their classmates? What they learn- or how they learn it? Should they focus on how well they are doing or on what they are doing?...and why? Reflecting on our purpose allows us to become better at what we do. Teaching is an ongoing journey- we don't simply arrive The Focus is on the Student Considering what and how they learn So where to go from here? join a professional learning community- in school, online, bothkeep a reflective journal or sets of notes participate in professional learning on a regular basischallenge yourself to learn something new about your students and your teaching Learning from our peers This all helps to create a community of learners that is the PLC
The Learning Revolution Teaching Jobs on Twitter For your convenience, we've segmented our old Twitter account into 5 distinct teaching job/lifestyle accounts. Teaching in Australia Listen If you live and work in Australia or intend on visiting or teaching in Australia, and value keeping up-to-date with the latest teaching industry developments, news and staffroom chat, follow us here and we'll follow you back - we're just as interested in you too (and we do spend time reading others' profiles and Tweets!). Regard this account as a window to our soul - we're more than a leading teaching job supplier; we offer support and encouragement from fellow teachers when it's needed. Twitter's a big conversation we're proud to be part of. Early Childhood Jobs Working in Early Childhood is as testing as it is rewarding! Primary Teaching Jobs Are you a Primary Teacher in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand or the UK? Secondary Teaching Jobs Teaching in London Other ways to engage with us
Out Of The Classroom And Into The Woods : NPR Ed Philby Illustration/Corbis Kids in the U.S. are spending less time outside. Even in kindergarten, recess is being cut back. It's called Forest Monday. Eliza Minnucci got the idea after watching a documentary about a forest school in Switzerland where kids spend all day, every day, out in the woods. "I would do that in a heartbeat," she thought to herself. But her principal at the Ottauquechee School in central Vermont surprised her by saying: Try it. Every Monday morning, the kids suit up for a day outdoors. First thing, the kids go to their "sit spots." "There's more moisture in the air," a boy named Orion Bee tells me. Playtime is next. "We can't roll it," says one boy, pushing with all his might to try to move a downed tree onto the dam. "We can roll it!" "We're supposed to study force and motion in kindergarten," she says — and these boys just got a real-world lesson. There are formal lessons in the forest, too. "I'm going to get some curvy sticks!" "It's 33 degrees out.
A List of 16 Websites Every Teacher should Know about 1- Teachers Network Teachers Network provides lesson plans, classroom specials, teacher designed activities for different subjects and many other resources. 2- Smithsonian Education Smithsonian Education offers a wide variety of free resources for teachers, students and parents. 3- Education World This is another great website for teachers. 4- Discovery Education Discovery Education offers a broad range of free classroom resources that complement and extend learning beyond the bell 5- The Gateway This is one of the oldest publicly accessible U.S repositories of education resources on the web. 6- EdHelper EdHelper provides teachers with free printables, graphic organizers, worksheets, lesson plans, games and many other activities. 7- Thinkfinity Thinkfinity is a free online professional learning community that provides access to over 50.000 educators and experts in curriculum enhancement, along with thousands of award-winning digital resources for k-12 8- PBS Teachers 9- Teachers.net 10- 42explore
The Question Game: A Playful Way To Teach Critical Thinking The Question Game by Sophie Wrobel, geist.avesophos.de The Question Game: A Playful Way To Teach Critical Thinking Big idea: Teaching kids to ask smart questions on their own A four-year-old asks on average about 400 questions per day, and an adult hardly asks any. Our school system is structured around rewards for regurgitating the right answer, and not asking smart questions – in fact, it discourages asking questions. In A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas, Warren Berger suggests that there are three main questions which help in problem solving: Why questions, What If questions, and How questions. Regardless of the question, the question needs to be phrased openly and positively in order to achieve positive results – a closed or negative question only raises bad feelings against each other. Why questions help to find the root of a problemWhat If questions open up the floor for creative solutionsHow questions focus on developing practical solutions
Hexagonal Learning After reading the inspirational post on The Learning Spy I decided to give this a go. My year 10 class are doing Macbeth and this is a challenging play for boys who have not ever done Shakespeare before. We have watched the Polanski version of the film and have collected quotes and created scene summaries. It was time to take it a step further. The boys went at this very animatedly and there was much discussion as I moved around the room, of the links that they were trying to make. Like this: Like Loading...
Are You A Whole Teacher? A Self-Assessment To Understand - Are You A Whole Teacher? A Self-Assessment To Understand by TeachThought Staff Whole Child Learning is a thing; Whole Teaching should be a thing too, no? Here at TeachThought, Jackie Gerstein’s usergeneratededucation is at the top of our reading list, in large part for her thinking about the human side of formal education. (The fact that we have to push ourselves to think of the “human side” could be part of our problem; teaching and learning are among the most human of processes–a natural response to our environment and curiosity.) We’ve also long been interested in the work of Costa and Kallick with the Habits of Mind (See What Are The Habits Of Mind? These ideas have pushed us to consider what it is that students really need to know in a modern world, which we’re going to have spend some time this year thinking about. You can read more here–in fact, follow her on twitter, and add her blog to your favorite RSS reader. Oral & Written Communication 1. 2. Critical Thinking & Problem-Solving
TEDxTeen 2012 "Forget What You Know"Jacob Barnett Watch "Still Figuring It Out"Tavi Gevinson "The Power of Listening"Mteto Maphoyi "Marchiare"Mteto Maphoyi "A Story Never Stands Alone"Natalie Warne "Magic, Rhyme and Reason"Krystyn Lambert "The InnerKid Philosophy"Kristen Powers "Breaking Thru"Full Cirlce "Make Your Own Road"Sujay Tyle "Breaking Down the Unknown"Angela Zhang "Shaping a Global Lens"Mahmoud Jabari Learning: It’s All About the Connections I’ve written about connections before in It’s All About Connection. Today, though, I was thinking about all of the connections important for learning. Connection has a lot of meanings and connotations: Here are some of the connections I thought of that can/should be part of both formal and informal education: In fact, I have come to believe that connection and all of its implications is one of the most important concepts in understanding, engaging in, and facilitating powerful learning experiences. Like this: Like Loading...
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