Thursday, March 22, 2012
Monday, February 20, 2012
How to Become an Elementary School Teacher
Being a self-proclaimed data junkie, I LOVE infographics because they contain lots of data! This was originally posted on schools.com and I thought it was totally fitting for this blog.
Click to view :)
Courtesy of: Schools.com
Click to view :)
Courtesy of: Schools.com
Friday, January 6, 2012
The Damon's Take a Stand
In this article the actor Matt Damon and his mother, a professor of education, turned down the opportunity for an award after reading an opinion article that the union’s
president had co-authored with the founder of Teach for America.
I particularly like the part where she points out that "...you wrote about a first-grade teacher who was retiring because she wouldn’t teach to a script... teaching to the test strips teachers of their professionalism. Yet it is the best-trained, most knowledgeable teachers who can offer the most meaningful, excellent education in this test-driven climate. It’s the under-prepared teachers who are most often teaching to tests and using scripts because they don’t have the knowledge base to do otherwise."
In making the best of this test-driven climate, are you scripting your lessons to the test? Or have you discovered that scripting doesn't work and using the test as a tool to get your students to think critically, form their own opinions on societal standards and expectations, and teach themselves job-survival skills (biting the bullet and getting through what isn't ideal to preserve themselves and their job) is making the most of the situation?
I particularly like the part where she points out that "...you wrote about a first-grade teacher who was retiring because she wouldn’t teach to a script... teaching to the test strips teachers of their professionalism. Yet it is the best-trained, most knowledgeable teachers who can offer the most meaningful, excellent education in this test-driven climate. It’s the under-prepared teachers who are most often teaching to tests and using scripts because they don’t have the knowledge base to do otherwise."
In making the best of this test-driven climate, are you scripting your lessons to the test? Or have you discovered that scripting doesn't work and using the test as a tool to get your students to think critically, form their own opinions on societal standards and expectations, and teach themselves job-survival skills (biting the bullet and getting through what isn't ideal to preserve themselves and their job) is making the most of the situation?
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
10 Things Terrible Teachers Do
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