Michael Keany's Blog – October 2011 Archive (52)

A New Goal for an Old Idea by Cassandra L. Davis

Are Top Students Getting Short Shrift?

Lumping all students together in one class may help average and struggling children, but does that come at a cost to top performers?

A New Goal for an Old Idea

Updated October 2, 2011, 07:00 PM…

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Done Well, Differentiation Works by Carol Ann Tomlinson

Are Top Students Getting Short Shrift?

Lumping all students together in one class may help average and struggling children, but does that come at a cost to top performers?

Done Well, Differentiation Works

Updated October 2, 2011, 07:00…

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Acknowledging the Trade-Offs (in differentiation) by Frederick Hess

Are Top Students Getting Short Shrift?

Lumping all students together in one class may help average and struggling children, but does that come at a cost to top performers?

Acknowledging the Trade-Offs

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Homework: Only Review What You Need to Review By David Ginsburg

Homework: Only Review What You Need to Review

Teacher in Front of Classroom.jpg A lot…

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Added by Michael Keany on October 3, 2011 at 3:49pm — No Comments

Tip for New Teachers #1: Always Be Watching

Tip for New Teachers #1: Always Be Watching

 

Unknown They say teachers must have eyes on the back of their heads. This is definitely true on some level, and there are some very obvious, but not necessarily intuitive, tricks to get close to this reality--close enough that you might actually hear your students say,…
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Tip For New Teachers #2: Monitor Your Talking Time!

Tip For New Teachers #2: Monitor Your Talking Time!



Images-2 I'm sure every one of us has sat through a class, as a student or an observer, and thought, "Gee this teacher must love the sound of his or her own voice."  We watch the students tuning out the teacher's words, waiting until it's time for them to participate…

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Do school superintendents matter? By Jay Mathews

Do school superintendents matter?

Early in 2004, at a party for Washington-area school leaders, Jack D. Dale, head of the Frederick County, Md., system, let slip that he had gotten a big new job…

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Good Evaluation Requires Data -- And Sound Judgment By Tom Vander Ark

Good Evaluation Requires Data -- And Sound Judgment

By Tom Vander Ark
Posted: 10/1/11 12:36 PM ET…


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The University of Wherever By BILL KELLER

The University of Wherever



NY Times



FOR more than a decade educators have been expecting the Internet to transform that bastion of tradition and authority, the university. Digital utopians have envisioned a world of virtual…

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The dangers of building a plane in the air By Valerie Strauss This was written by Carol Corbett Burris

The dangers of building a plane in the air

This was written by Carol Corbett Burris, principal of South Side High School in New York. She was named the 2010 New York State Outstanding Educator by the School Administrators Association of New York…

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Why Naming Names Is Wrong By Diane Ravitch

Why Naming Names Is Wrong

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Added by Michael Keany on October 1, 2011 at 11:58am — No Comments

Why Evaluate Teachers and Doctors Differently? By Walt Gardner

Why Evaluate Teachers and Doctors Differently?

It's become…

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