Over the course of my career a number of teachers adopted my “daily quiz” approach to teaching.
Archive for the ‘Curriculum and Instruction’ Category
12 Must Read Articles on the Common Core
April 16th, 2012
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The following 12 articles are must reads for anyone interested in the implementation of the Common Core State Standards: Standards will shift teaching Teacher: Give Peas (and the Common Core Standards) a Chance Text Complexity 101 Text Complexity 102 Truth in numbers: Student proficiency in Ohio now and under the Common Core Curriculum impacts achievement! [...]
A Very Special (Math) Challenge for the Common Core
March 4th, 2012
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Math teachers will have to modify many of their academic strategies as a result of the higher and broader expectations of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in mathematics.
For CCSS Math Education Some Problems are Elementary
February 26th, 2012
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Math teachers need a strong background in the subject in order to meet the needs of their students. This requirement has been intensified as the implementation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) begins.
Never end a lesson without it!
February 20th, 2012
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Recent research may help school leaders with two important challenges that they face on a daily basis. First, in these tight budget times with fewer teachers, larger classes, and fewer resources, how do we improve student performance? How do we do more with less? What are some no-cost ways that we can improve our schools? [...]
Great Teaching Techniques Are Not Enough: Pt. 1
February 12th, 2012
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Teachers, particularly math teachers, who know their subjects better, improve student achievement more than teachers who have less expertise in their content areas. In other words, teachers have to know math before they can teach math, and the better they know it, the better they teach it.
Math Instruction, Teacher Preparation, and the Common Core State Standards
January 29th, 2012
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High School Honored for Gains in Access to AP classes
November 2nd, 2011
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Bloggers Note: I have often said that the principal is the “cork in the bottle.” Nothing happens in a school without the full, active support of the principal. Raising rigor and increasing the number of students enrolled in college-level courses requires a strong belief in the potential of the students, the capacity of the teachers [...]
Four Days Make a School Weak
September 13th, 2011
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by Stuart Singer, The Teacher Leader On August 31 “NBC Nightly News” Brian Williams moved into a commercial break with a tease of his next segment. “As more and more school districts are moving to a four-day week, parents are asking, ‘What are we supposed to do with our kids on that extra day?’.” While [...]
School Technology: Still Dabbling Around the Edges
September 12th, 2011
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Technology and diets have one thing in common. Neither works unless you work them, and, when it comes to school technology, for the most part, we educators are more like dabblers than implementers. In a recent New York Times article, Matt Richtel put it bluntly. “Schools are spending billions on technology, even as they cut [...]
