Educational Links 3/13/19

Flipped Classroom 101: Challenges, Benefits & Design Tips

https://catlintucker.com/2019/03/flipped-classroom101/

A Principal’s Day, According to Brain Science

https://schoolleadersnow.weareteachers.com/principal-day-affects-brain/?fbclid=IwAR2H26fwQM1KDC7lplWDwOE4QjZoB7jydRQDqQUUAH33dWbXqjWYaA67TG4

The Most Important Question Every Assessment Should Answer

https://wegrowteachers.com/important-question-every-assessment-answer/?fbclid=IwAR2DXJmSySTGla4ftOTht55RWHZvooL5bslntMloUtVw7DBmDbZhA0ABO0k

How Schools Can Face The 'Bad Habits' That Inhibit Meaningful Changes

https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/47570/how-schools-can-face-the-bad-habits-that-inhibit-meaningful-changes

Research scholars to air problems with using ‘grit’ at school

https://hechingerreport.org/research-scholars-to-air-problems-with-using-grit-at-school/

How Mastery-Based Learning Can Help Students of Every Background Succeed

https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/53241/how-mastery-based-learning-can-help-students-of-every-background-succeed?fbclid=IwAR3Kh9TY_ZF1fUAYS-xYECIl8bAdafzI6QNOArPyCPdLXLqlUuBjVxqRBFE

The Problem with Finding the Main Idea

http://www.readingrockets.org/research-by-topic/problem-finding-main-idea?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ReadingRockets_TeachingReading+%28Reading+Rockets%3A+Teaching+Reading+Resources%29

This report shows how systemic assessments of student learning that isolate skills like “finding the main idea” encourage teachers to place an unhelpful emphasis on the teaching of these “skills”. Drawing on examples from the United States, the report explains why this approach fails to lead to improvements in student learning. Nevertheless, student assessment can be both aligned with high standards and help to encourage the kinds of effective teaching practice that support student learning.