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AH! Bursting Buttons!: October 2011
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Informing Meta-Pedagogical Practices for the 21st Century Classroom. Tuesday, October 25, 2011. How does your soup get to taste better? Paul Black tells us that when the cook tastes the soup it is formative assessment and when the customer tastes the soup it is summative assessment. A frequent misunderstanding is that any assessment by teachers, and in particular the use of a weekly test to produce a record of marks, constitutes formative assessment. It does not. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). The name burs...
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AH! Bursting Buttons!: Why Change Assessment practices?
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Informing Meta-Pedagogical Practices for the 21st Century Classroom. Thursday, April 28, 2011. Why Change Assessment practices? Assessment means to sit beside and guide the next instructional steps of learning. We need to deeply involve the learner. It means having the students and teachers working together to improve learning. Evaluation means to value, to judge. It is summative and should only occur at the end of the learning. It is done by the teacher. April 30, 2011 at 3:17 PM. View my complete profi...
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AH! Bursting Buttons!: Who comes first at your school?
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Informing Meta-Pedagogical Practices for the 21st Century Classroom. Monday, November 21, 2011. Who comes first at your school? Students, parents, teachers, support staff, custodial staff, district office staff, other principals and community members all pull for our time and attention. There are times when you get caught up in the day to day adminis-trivia of school life – but you need to be willing to drop it if a child or parent needs your ear. 8221; needs to be asked. November 23, 2011 at 10:37 PM.
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AH! Bursting Buttons!: August 2010
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Informing Meta-Pedagogical Practices for the 21st Century Classroom. Monday, August 30, 2010. Happiness - 5 facets to connect / be active/keep learning / take notice and give. Labels: Happiness - How happy are you? Monday, August 16, 2010. What can we learn from spaghetti sauce? An awesome new administrator recommended that I watch this TED video by Malcom Gladwell. Http:/ www.youtube.com/watch? From this I am wondering just how important student choice is when it comes to assessment for learning? The In...
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AH! Bursting Buttons!: Does it make a difference when community members volunteer in your school?
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Informing Meta-Pedagogical Practices for the 21st Century Classroom. Monday, May 2, 2011. Does it make a difference when community members volunteer in your school? Does it make a difference when community members volunteer in your school? When it came time for the struggling reader to read he brought a book about legends of mythical creatures which was unusual, because he usually brought comic books and generally just talked about the pictures rather than read the words. The volunteer was a bit confused...
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AH! Bursting Buttons!: Moral Imperative
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Informing Meta-Pedagogical Practices for the 21st Century Classroom. Thursday, May 12, 2011. When teachers decide to become teachers I believe they have the notion somewhere in their head that they can make a difference for every student that they teach. Why is it that some of us forget that it is all about learning - simple, powerful and memorable? We all need to be learners and we all need to respect what it means to be a learner. Michael Fullan's new book "The Moral Imperative Realized". On the wire &...
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AH! Bursting Buttons!: June 2011
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Informing Meta-Pedagogical Practices for the 21st Century Classroom. Wednesday, June 8, 2011. How does one become good at problem solving? In stuart Brown's book "Play". Perhaps providing students with experiences that require them to be hands on will help them to go deeper with their learning and become better problem solvers. TED video on the power of games to alter and grow the brain. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Learner / Educator / daughter/ sister / wife / mother / friend / grandmother! Student lead...
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AH! Bursting Buttons!: October 2010
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Informing Meta-Pedagogical Practices for the 21st Century Classroom. Thursday, October 28, 2010. Can we make a difference in student learning by using formative assessment? If the greater value is given the score, then value the score. If the greater value is intrinsic, then value the child. Bob Stanish – The Giving Book. I believe if we as teachers understand our curriculum and truly use outcomes to drive our teaching we will use assessment to improve student learning. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Next i...
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AH! Bursting Buttons!: November 2010
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Informing Meta-Pedagogical Practices for the 21st Century Classroom. Friday, November 12, 2010. How long will it take for schools to change so that all students are engaged learners? I recently heard someone say not long …… what will take the time is for them to decide to change. In the words of Martin Luther King………. 8220;We are now faced with the fact my friends that tomorrow is today. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Learner / Educator / daughter/ sister / wife / mother / friend / grandmother! Ethereal tem...
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