In practice | Teaching: PD isn’t the problem
It’s not necessarily stubborn, lazy teachers keeping new ideas and methods from taking hold in a school. Sometimes it’s the flawed policies and unrelenting rigidity of the system itself.
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Category: In Practice
Assessments can help Common Core teaching
A standard can tell you what you need to teach. Only your students’ work can tell you what they actually learned — or didn’t.
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Make students college-ready in high school
To increase college persistence and graduation, we must get better at teaching high school students the on-the-ground skills they will need to be successful in college.
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From homework to home learning
Stop assigning homework, and watch the learning grow.
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Giving and getting feedback in real time
Real-time feedback closes the gap between rehearsal and reality.
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We hide the best parts
Get to know your students. All of them.
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IN PRACTICE: LEADERSHIP: Rookie teachers: The first 90 days
The first few months for new teachers provide opportunities to teach them complex skills that will help improve student learning.
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Rookie teachers need dress rehearsals, too
Before the curtain rises on the school year, the newest teachers should have practiced time and again what they will encounter their first days of school.
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In practice | Teaching: We need gates
Educational contexts open to and self-directed by children promote learning, but traditional direct instruction also is appropriate in many areas. Gates, not walls, are what we need.
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In practice | Leadership: Habits improve classroom discussions
To ensure the best and most useful classroom discussions, teach the building blocks of listening, articulating, exchanging ideas, and synthesizing new knowledge.
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