Educational Links 12/20/16

Why Math Education in the U.S. Doesn't Add Up

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-math-education-in-the-u-s-doesn-t-add-up

Comprehensive Guide on Chromebook in Education

http://edtechreview.in/research/2597-chromebook-in-education-guide?utm_content=buffer1f5f7&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

How Kids Develop Thinking and Learning Skills

https://www.understood.org/en/learning-attention-issues/signs-symptoms/developmental-milestones/how-kids-develop-thinking-and-learning-skills

'Schools don't understand behaviour or what "success" should really mean'

https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-views/schools-dont-understand-behaviour-or-what-success-should-really-mean

The new standardized testing craze to hit public schools

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2016/12/19/the-new-standardized-testing-craze-to-hit-public-schools/?utm_term=.57d105a33467

Snow Days: Resources to Share With Students and Parents

https://www.edutopia.org/article/snow-days-resources-share-students-and-parents-matt-davis

Guide Your Students Toward Positive Fulfillment

https://www.edutopia.org/blog/guide-your-students-toward-positive-fulfillment-maurice-elias?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

Have you thought about ways to help cultivate the character of your middle and high school students? If you consider social and emotional learning skills as the engine that enables accomplishment, you might want to look at character as the steering wheel that gives kids a sense of direction.

Educational Links 1/20/16

What Would Accountability Without Standardized Tests Look Like?

http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2015/09/18/what-would-accountability-without-standardized-tests-look-like/ 

When Students Won't Do the Reading  

https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/just-visiting/when-students-wont-do-reading?utm_content=buffere50fe&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=IHEbuffer

7 Math Tools to Energize Advanced Learners

https://www.graphite.org/blog/7-math-tools-to-energize-advanced-learners 

History, Empathy, Systems Thinking, and Gaming

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/history-empathy-systems-thinking-gaming-matthew-farber 

Overcoming Burnout: Why Overwhelmed Is the New Normal and What to Do About It - PART I

http://www.bamradionetwork.com/teachers-aid/2053-overcoming-burnout-why-overwhelmed-is-the-new-normal-and-what-to-do-about-it 

8 ways teachers can talk less and get kids talking more

http://thecornerstoneforteachers.com/2014/09/8-ways-teachers-can-talk-less-get-kids-talking.html 

Response: Manage Classrooms Through 'Positive Relationships'

http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/classroom_qa_with_larry_ferlazzo/2016/01/response_manage_classrooms_through_positive_relationships.html 

Classroom observations may hurt teachers more than they help, study says

http://www.eschoolnews.com/2016/01/19/classroom-observations-may-hurt-teachers-more-than-they-help-study-says/ 

“When information about teacher performance does not reflect a teacher’s practice, but rather the students to whom the teacher is assigned, such systems are at risk of misidentifying and mislabeling teacher performance,” Steinberg and Garrett wrote.

 By Laura Devaney

Testing, 1,2,3, Testing

Why Are American Schools Obsessed With Turning Kids Into Robots?

http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/02/why-are-american-schools-obsessed-with-turning-kids-into-robots/385067/ 

One potential upshot to Common Core - less standardized testing: Bill Davidson

http://www.pennlive.com/opinion/2015/02/one_upshot_to_common_core_-_le.html 

White House Still Backs Annual Testing in Schools 

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/13/education/arne-duncan-says-administration-is-committed-to-testing.html

Education groups, leaders weigh in on Duncan’s speech

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/education-groups-leaders-weigh-in-on-duncans-speech/2015/01/12/daaf7a34-9a91-11e4-96cc-e858eba91ced_story.html 

NCLB: Groups Urge Curtailing of Standardized Tests; Duncan Unmoved

http://thejournal.com/articles/2015/01/12/nclb-groups-urge-curtailing-of-standardized-tests-duncan-unmoved.aspx 

Testing Burden on ELLs Needs Easing, Federal Officials Say

http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2015/02/04/testing-burden-on-ells-needs-easing-federal.html 

Concerns About Accountability Testing

http://www.readingrockets.org/blog/concerns-about-accountability-testing?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ReadingRockets_TeachingReading+%28Reading+Rockets%3A+Teaching+Reading+Resources%29 

Involvement for Learning Tweets of the Day 10/28/13

1. Kids Speak Out on Student Engagement 

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/student-engagement-stories-heather-wolpert-gawron?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=blog-student-engagement-quotes 

2. Beyond Parent-Teacher Conferences: Building Connections That Last

https://www.teachingchannel.org/blog/2013/10/23/beyond-parent-teacher-conferences/?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=post10231302&utm_campaign=fbt 

3. Guns in School: Should Teachers Be Armed?

http://www.education.com/debate/gunsinschool/?cid=80. 

4. Common-Core Study: Teachers Aiming Too Low With Reading Assignments

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/curriculum/2013/10/study_shows_teachers_aiming_too_low.html 

5. Top authors — including Maya Angelou — urge Obama to curb standardized testing

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/10/22/top-authors-including-maya-angelou-urge-obama-to-curb-standardized-testing/ 

6. Harnessing Children’s Natural Ways of Learning

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/10/harnessing-childrens-natural-ways-of-learning/ 

7. Take the Common Core Challenge! 

https://www.teachingchannel.org/challenge/?utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=post10231301&utm_campaign=fbt 

 

 

 

Choices for Parents and Teachers Tweets of the Day 9/10/13

1. Five Quick Classroom Management Tips for Novice Teachers 

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/classroom-management-tips-novice-teachers-rebecca-alber?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=blog-management-tips

2. Teaching skills

https://www.teachingchannel.org/questions/teaching-skills/?utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=post09091301&utm_campaign=fbt 

3. Kids Create Their Own Plots with E-Books

 http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/03/are-moving-tales-the-future-of-childrens-e-books/

4. Good Read: How Closely Should Parents Track Their Kids’ Grades?

 http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/jp/good-read-how-closely-should-parents-track-their-kids-grades/

5. Ways to Cure Teacher Burnout 

http://www.teachhub.com/ways-cure-teacher-burnout 

6.  What Do You Think About Charter Schools?

 http://www.ncld.org/ld-insights/blogs/what-do-you-think-about-charter-schools

7. Wary of standardized testing, parents are increasingly opting their kids out of exams

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/wary-of-standardized-testing-parents-are-increasingly-opting-their-kids-out-of-exams/2013/09/08/af73a1e0-18a8-11e3-80ac-96205cacb45a_story.html