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Ramsey Brookhart

Teaching Millennials

GLOBALISTIC: Writings from a millennial generation: www.globalistic-book.com “Globalistic” is a non-fiction work that addresses the curre...

Started by Ramsey Brookhart

0 Nov 21
Sarah Hanawald

Brain Rules

Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School by John Medina My review rating: 4 of 5 starsBrain rules...

Started by Sarah Hanawald

5 Aug 6
Reply by Gillian Goodman
Sarah Hanawald

Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell My review Outliers has some pretty interesting implications for educators. So far, two K-12 schools have be...

Started by Sarah Hanawald

6 Aug 6
Reply by Amy Barto
Boni Luna

Books that promote thinking

In Dan Pink’s book , A Whole New Mind he states : “People who hope to thrive in the Conceptual Age must understand the connections betwee...

Started by Boni Luna

9 Aug 6
Reply by Amy Barto
Paul Miller

"A Whole New Mind" Wiki site

a new wiki that will enable schools and teachers that have read the book to collaborate: http://awnm4schools.wikispaces.com/

Started by Paul Miller

1 Aug 6
Reply by Amy Barto
Demetri Orlando

Teaching for Tomorrow

This is a reposting of a blog entry I did awhile ago for our new "Books" discussion board... Ted McCain's Teaching for Tomorrow (2005) i...

Started by Demetri Orlando

4 Jul 25
Reply by Sarah Hanawald
Sarah Hanawald

Global Achievement Gap

This book is so unfortunately named. It is NOT about the difference in test scores between American students and those in other, higher...

Started by Sarah Hanawald

2 Jul 21
Reply by Green
Tatiana Kurjaninow

Active Assessment for Active Science (Hein & Price, 1994)

For professional development over the summer, this text was suggested by my Supervisor. I teach an inquiry-based curriculum where we do p...

Started by Tatiana Kurjaninow

0 Jun 23
Vinnie Vrotny

Tribes - Seth Godin

For those who are interested, I am beginning a discussion of the book Tribes on the Book Clubs at TeacherPlaces (http://tpbookclubs.com/t...

Started by Vinnie Vrotny

1 Jun 5
Reply by Allison Williams
Page Lennig

Book for Middle School Faculty

Our middle school will be focusing next year's professional development on "Technology and Adolescence" - on the brain/social development...

Started by Page Lennig

0 May 14
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Here are the three short blurbs for the AIMS Technology Retreat program. Feed, a Must Read Anyone who works with or knows a teenager, a tweenager, or a pre-teen absolutely must read Feed by M. T. Anderson. Set in the near future, the author convin...
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Laurie, You are at the heart of what motivates adults to learn. Excellent. Most of my failure had to do with my inability to connect meaning, purpose, and passion to learning that helped teachers improve teaching (this means doing something diffe...
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Hi Preston, I think that PD – and this refers to all types of PD, not just PD related to technology – should encourage and support learning: • within one's area of expertise • within one's area of passion • that complement's one's area of experti...
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Thanks, Preston, for sharing the article on finding time. ~Laurie
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Time is our enemy, for sure. Sadly too much PD is designed around time and budgets. But honesty is encouraged here as well. Time is required as teachers deconstruct and construct ideas while creating predictability and control in ready-to-use mat...
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Thanks, Liz. We just haven't had much luck with getting teachers to give up those blocks, at least not on a consistent enough basis to make any real progress. I hope you see some real success in making this paradigm shift.
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It would come out of their free block. I'm planning to meet with them every two to three weeks for a semester.
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I used it pretty actively for about two years and ultimately found it more annoying than useful. Keeping a decent signal to noise ratio took too much care and time. I'm glad others find it wonderful, but it didn't really work for me.
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Where is the teacher's time coming from to engage in these more personalized approaches to PD? We would gladly do more of this sort of thing with teachers, but even those motivated to do so have a lot of trouble making time for them.
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