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James Popham on Formative Assessment’s Moment in the Sun
“Teachable moments are really quite special, and they don’t come along that often,” says assessment guru James Popham in this Education Week article. “A teacher who wastes a teachable moment, therefore, commits a pedagogical sin of omission.” Popham believes formative assessments are having an “advocatable moment” that educators should seize.
Why is this such an…
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John Wooden, Teacher Extraordinaire
In this intriguing article in Quest, Bradley Alan Ermeling (University of California, Los Angeles) shows how John Wooden, the legendary UCLA basketball coach, used four key insights on teacher inquiry. Wooden always insisted that everything he did with his highly successful teams from 1946 to 1975 he learned teaching high-school English in the 1930s. Here’s what he did with his teams and…
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Thanks to Larry Ferlazzo for this reference.
California Jerry Brown just gave his State of the State address. Here’s an excerpt:
The laws that are in fashion demand tightly constrained curricula and reams of accountability data. All the better if it requires quiz-bits of information, regurgitated at regular intervals and stored in vast computers. Performance metrics, of course, are invoked like talismans. Distant authorities crack the whip, demanding…
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by J. Robinson
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As May begins, high school seniors are enjoying their final weeks in school before graduation. In just a few months, they will be stepping…
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I'd be hard pressed to identify a colleague who isn't fed up with multiple-choice standardized testing. Lost instructional time. Data that isn't timely or targeted enough to…
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by Bill Ferriter (The Tempered Radical)
Let me start with a borderline heretical confession: I believe that the terms "digital natives" and "digital immigrants" have done more harm than good in shaping the direction of teaching and learning in the 21st Century.
The way I see it, calling students "digital natives" and any adult over the…
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At the beginning of this school year, I accompanied my daughter in her search to find a good public school for my grandson. Because…
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When I began my career as a commodity trader right out of grad school in 1997, my first assignment was under a 40 year…
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