As I work on this year’s curriculum map, I’m trying to set up a learning space bounded by the minimum number of teacher-imposed, useful constraints necessary to promote student-directed democracy, community, and learning.
My map this year will look more course-specific than last year’s meta-map, which I think is still a useful model for project-based work. [...]
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Posted 02 July 2010
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Also tagged: #abolishgrades, Atlassian Days, Classroom management, Coaching, Curriculum map, Dan Pink, Democratic education, Drive, Edmodo, Google time, Instructional technology, Monkseaton High School, Paul Kelly, School community, Scratch, Self-directed learning, Spaced learning, Student discipline, Timely feedback, Useful constraints
Mary Beth Hertz (@mbteach) wrote here about #ISTE10’s “Dissecting the 21st Century Teacher” panel. I commented on a few of the lines that caught my attention regarding curriculum and a teacher’s role in maintaining and delivering content. I’m torn there. There’s so much discoverable content maintained out there that it’s useful for a teacher [...]
Assessment reform is crucial to education reform. Junot Diaz spoke at NCTE last night about the work we have to do to move away from the “journey of approval” (make the grade or face punishment) to the “journey of discovery,” wherein meaningful reading, learning, and heuristic mistake-making occur. Until an American administration takes [...]
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Posted 20 November 2009
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Also tagged: Education reform, Edumacation, Florida, Junot Diaz, Kevin Hurt, Matt Townsley, MeTa Musings, NBCT, NCTE, Polk County, Rick Stiggins, Rick Wormeli, Robert Marzano, SBAR, Standards-based, Timely feedback, W. James Popham
Students engaged in creating media that they value mostly do so either outside of school or underground at school. Many teams of teachers and students create work together that both value, but too often the “fun stuff” is either cut out of the school day or limited to what @budtheteacher calls “semi-school environments” in [...]
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Posted 19 November 2009
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Also tagged: Alfie Kohn, Authentic engagement, Authentic learning, Authentic work, Becky Fisher, Bud Hunt, Education reform, NCTE, NWP, Personal meaning, Semi-school environment, Student entrepreneurship, Student publication
I found Gary Hayes and Laurel Papworth’s Social Media Campaign image a few days ago via Steven Anderson’s (@web20classroom) Blogging About The Web 2.0 Connected Classroom. It broadened my thinking about the curriculum map due to my head of school in September. I work at a middle school that strives to differentiate instruction by content, process, [...]
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Posted 22 August 2009
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Also tagged: Authentic engagement, Charter school, Curriculum map, Education reform, Gary Hayes, Instructional coach, Laurel Papworth, Rubric, SOL, Steven Anderson, VIrginia, Virtual charter school, Virtual school, Web 2.0
