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Effective Teachers: Did your Master's degree help? or are we victims of education inflation?
Started this discussion. Last reply by Catherine Cabiness Jul 30, 2011. 9 Replies 0 Likes
In Liberating Learning, Moe and Chubb (2009) suggest that "effective teachers are not easily identified from their credentials, education, or experience (beyond the first few years of teaching)"…Continue
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Wagner's Global Achievement Gap
Started this discussion. Last reply by norbert kiprop boruett May 30, 2011. 10 Replies 0 Likes
I thought Wagner's book The Global Achievement Gap (2008) was unimpressive, until I reached…Continue
The TED commandments Rules for Speaking
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Thou Shalt Not Simply Trot Out thy Usual ShtickThou Shalt Dream a Great Dream, or Show Forth a Wondrous New Thing, Or Share Something Thou Hast Never Shared BeforeThou Shalt Reveal thy Curiosity and…Continue
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Google Search Tricks: Getting the most from Googlinghttp://prezi.com/mohshuoe-qcf/google-search-tricks/Twitter: How to use twitter…Continue
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Chris Scofield replied to Jeff Leppard's discussion Effective Teachers: Did your Master's degree help? or are we victims of education inflation?
Barry Bakin replied to Jeff Leppard's discussion Effective Teachers: Did your Master's degree help? or are we victims of education inflation?"After my one-year Teaching English as a Second Language certificate program, I could have continued for a second year in order to obtain a Master's in Teaching. I declined at that time, thinking that it would have been absurd to have a…"
Stu replied to Jeff Leppard's discussion Effective Teachers: Did your Master's degree help? or are we victims of education inflation?"A 3rd grade teacher I work with has this quote on her wall:
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Christopher Casal replied to Jeff Leppard's discussion Effective Teachers: Did your Master's degree help? or are we victims of education inflation?"Graduate school, for me, was about talking to colleagues and sharing tips, tricks, best practices, etc.
I have 3 Masters, all in education (general ed, instructional tech, ed admin) and the classes themselves didn't offer me a whole lot.…"
Scott Beiter replied to Jeff Leppard's discussion Effective Teachers: Did your Master's degree help? or are we victims of education inflation?"I finished my second Masters this fall in Instructional Technology and have been teaching for 8 years. I teach in NY and got my Masters in Science Education before I began teaching. Teaching while getting your degree, though difficult,…"
norbert kiprop boruett replied to Jeff Leppard's discussion Wagner's Global Achievement Gap"Thanks
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Jeff Mehring replied to Jeff Leppard's discussion Wagner's Global Achievement Gap"Hey Jeff,
What is the name of the independent school? Must be nice not to have to worry about the tests. I work at a university in Nagoya, so I do not have to worry as well, but classes are so compartmentalized. I wish there was more…"
Jeff Mehring replied to Jeff Leppard's discussion Wagner's Global Achievement Gap"You can try amazon.com or google Tony Wagner and you can order it from the publisher."
norbert kiprop boruett replied to Jeff Leppard's discussion Effective Teachers: Did your Master's degree help? or are we victims of education inflation?"Jeff-This is a powerful argument.I think it would vary with countries or better still with you educational system and your profession. For instance a surgeon who like to teach in a medical school would enroll for a certificate course in teaching and…"
Jeff Leppard replied to Jeff Leppard's discussion Effective Teachers: Did your Master's degree help? or are we victims of education inflation?"Hi Katie, great response. From what I've seen of Board Certification (and we dont' have this in Canada), I think it's great. I was recently involved in writing a Teacher Professional Growth and Evaluation Program, and I know that the…"
Katie Muhtaris replied to Jeff Leppard's discussion Effective Teachers: Did your Master's degree help? or are we victims of education inflation?"I'm getting a master's now after teaching for 6 years. I'm in a special program that was an extension of my National Board certification process. Essentially I received masters credit for the support program I went through…"
Jeff Leppard posted a discussionEffective Teachers: Did your Master's degree help? or are we victims of education inflation?
In Liberating Learning, Moe and Chubb (2009) suggest that "effective teachers are not easily identified from their credentials, education, or experience (beyond the first few years of teaching)" (95). Many educators now possess (multiple) Master's or PhDs. To what extent did you degree improve your instruction? How do you know? Are teachers the victims of education inflation?See More
norbert kiprop boruett replied to Jeff Leppard's discussion Wagner's Global Achievement Gap"Jeff'
Great how can i get a copy of the book
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Jeff Leppard replied to Jeff Leppard's discussion Wagner's Global Achievement Gap"Jeff,
I, too, teach in Japan (yeah us!), at n independent school, so we're not too worried about outside tests, fortunately (save, to some extent, the APs). We're moving 1:1 next year, and as the recent purchaser of the Ipad 2,…"
Jeff Mehring replied to Jeff Leppard's discussion Wagner's Global Achievement Gap"Hey Jeff,
I have not finished Wagner's book yet, but did watch his video from the link you supplied. After watching the video I can understand why you might have been unimpressed with the beginning of the book. Much of what he says in the short…"
Jeff Leppard replied to Jeff Leppard's discussion Wagner's Global Achievement Gap"Hey Jeff,
I just read, at your suggestion, the Trilling and Fadel. It had good bits. I felt that it, too, was much like the beginning of the Wagner book. Good generalizations (you'd expect it to quote Pink etc.), but it doesn't do as…"
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Schmoker: Focus and teaching English Language Arts
Posted on May 15, 2011 at 9:26pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
Mike Schmoker’s new text Focus (2011) offers a passionate, persuasive call for a return to some old-school methods of teaching, especially with regard to the teaching of English. As a teacher at a school that is moving (finally) to a 1:1 computer environment, the risk is that we could forego much of the reading and writing we do in favour of more ‘creative projects’. What Schmoker calls for is simple: plenty of reading. He suggests that in each English course, students should…
Continue The Shallows
Posted on May 15, 2011 at 8:35pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
Nicholas Carr's latest, erudite work The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains is well worth reading. In particular, I would recommend the chapter "The Juggler's Brain" which does an excellent job of compiling and refuting such notions as multi-tasking. He refutes well the contention of Everything Bad Is Good for You (Johnson, 2005). With connections to work on working memory (cf. Alloway, Tracy) and suggestions as to how technology, when not used with circumspection, can change… Continue
Education: Agricultural not Industrial
Posted on May 25, 2010 at 7:01pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
In class today we watched Ken Robinson's "Bring on the Revolution" on TED in which he calls for a revolution in education. He suggests that we need not reform a broken, outmoded system, but rather we must fundamentally change what we do to/with kids. The metaphor Robinson uses is a shift from an industrial model (factory-like, all kids learn the same things at the same age levels, in preparation for 'university') and move to an agricultural model, where… Continue
21st Century Education is Happening: What does it look like?
Posted on May 9, 2010 at 7:10pm 2 Comments 0 Likes
The video posted on this page on 21st Century Learning suggests requirements that neither make all schools the same, nor require we drop everything we do. But it does suggest a framework for renewal. We need to: Continue
- Use a project/problem based curriculum and experiential learning
- Have students address real world problems
- Nurture and support creativity
- Instill curiosity -- lifelong
- See the arts as…
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