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5 Educational Concepts To Eliminate in 2023
5 Educational Concepts To Eliminate in 2023
The…
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What research-based strategies are most related to high student achievement K-12? No surprises here!
The Dim Bulb
The Occasional Musings of an Educator
by Michael Keany
#14 - January 3, 2023
The brain is capable of performing 10 quadrillion (that’s 10 to the 16th)…
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Screencasting on Chromebooks
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Bill Gates Is Going To Fix Math
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How We Use Book Clubs to Empower Our Readers
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Lifting My Students Out of the Math Fact Fog
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Meeting and Exceeding Student Expectations of Teachers: A Way to Achieve “Good” Teaching
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Staffed Up: Why one teacher left and another stayed
Staffed Up: Why one teacher left and another stayed
A pair of interviews highlight the hardships and hard wins of the classroom — with a thinner line between each educator’s decision than you might expect.
Added by Michael Keany on December 30, 2022 at 1:42pm — No Comments
How do nations other than the USA use standardized testing?
The Dim Bulb
The Occasional Musings of an Educator
by Michael Keany
#13 - December 30, 2022
The brain is capable of performing 10 quadrillion (that’s 10 to the 16th)…
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Chat Animator: An Excellent Formative Assessment Alternative
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Which aids comprehension better, drawing with computer or drawing by hand?
The Dim Bulb
The Occasional Musings of an Educator
by Michael Keany
#12 - December 26, 2022
The brain is capable of performing 10 quadrillion (that’s 10 to the 16th)…
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5 Leadership Styles From Ted Lasso
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Making Time to Reflect
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More on Reading Novels to Teens
More on Reading Novels to Teens
Tim Shanahan
This blog entry first posted 30 April 2017 and was reposted on 19 November 2022.
Recently, I’ve received numerous questions about the value of reading novels to high school and middle school students (letters usually from annoyed colleagues). My replies have typically included the following: “Teaching someone to read without having them read it is a neat…
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3 Reasons Smart Leaders Tell Stories
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Emphasizing Tests (or maybe not)
Teachers and Students’ Postsecondary Outcomes: Testing the Predictive Power of Test and Nontest Teacher Quality Measures is by Benjamin Backes, James Cowan, Dan Goldhaber, Roddy Theobald.
from Larry Ferlazzo
Here’s an excerpt:
Test-based teacher quality measures have more explanatory…
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What Changes Kids’ Minds about Poetry?
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After Her Book Displays Drew Criticism, Librarian Elissa Malespina Lost Her Job. She's Here to Say "I'm Not OK with This."
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Teaching Children to Use Context
Teaching Children to Use Context
Tim Shanahan
I’m writing this blog because of the disarray I see over the topic of context instruction and the poor instructional practice that it seems to manifest.
One confusion is already well recognized, but merits some mention here. The other befuddlement usually goes without remark, and yet it, too, has unfortunate consequences for young readers.
Let’s dispatch the first problem…
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Grow a Love for Reading with an Ocean of Books
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