Educational Links 5/30/18

Teacher Evaluation Is Stuck in the Past

https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2018/05/16/teacher-evaluation-is-stuck-in-the-past.html?cmp=SOC-EDIT-FB

Be The Change You Want to See By Shifting Traditional High School

https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/48044/be-the-change-you-want-to-see-by-shifting-traditional-high-school

The Reluctant Gatekeeper

https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2018/01/24/the-reluctant-gatekeeper/

   

5 steps to promote ownership of learning in your UDL classroom   

https://www.iste.org/explore/articleDetail?articleid=2193

Learn the Right Reasons for Your Child’s “Wrong” Behavior

https://www.additudemag.com/learn-the-right-reasons-for-your-childs-wrong-behavior/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=parent

When the Stories Feel Too Hard to Teach

http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/intersection-culture-and-race-in-education/2018/05/when-the-stories-feel-too-hard-to-teach-metoo-teaching-triggers.html?cmp=SOC-EDIT-FB

Lesson Study: When Teachers Team Up to Improve Teaching

https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/44948/lesson-study-when-teachers-team-up-to-improve-teaching

This kind of detailed observation of student work is the focus of a kind of professional development called lesson study. Wolak can better understand how her students are thinking by having other teachers in her classroom focused on the students (as opposed to evaluating her performance). The teachers are looking for misconceptions, but also interesting ways students approach problems and how well they can talk through what they did.