By Allan Alach
I welcome suggested articles, so if you come
across a gem, email it to me at allanalach@inspire.net.nz
What Parents Can Gain From Learning the Science of Talking to Kids
“The widening education gap between the rich and the poor is not
news to those who work in education, many of whom have been struggling to close
the gap beginning the day poor children enter kindergarten or preschool. But
one unlikely soldier has joined the fight: a pediatric surgeon who wants to get
started way before kindergarten. She wants to start closing the gap the day
babies are born.”
What The Martian Teaches Us About Scientific Literacy
“I see scientific literacy as a set of basic rules about how
the world works, a student can apply to a novel situation in order to derive
insights, make predictions and better decisions. The
An
introduction to Mindful Teaching
‘The mindful
teaching approach is slightly different and it does start with a question, but
a question of a different kind. The mindful teaching question would be “Tell me what you
do understand?”’
Is Anybody
Listening? Research finds no advantage in learning to read from age five
“A University
of Otago researcher has uncovered for the first time quantitative evidence that
teaching children to read from age five is not likely to make that child any
more successful at reading than a child who learns reading later, from age
seven.”
How People
Learn: An Evidence-Based Approach
Teachers will
always need to use their knowledge of students and content to make professional
judgments about classroom practice. However, we believe the art of teaching
should also be informed by a robust understanding of the learning sciences so
that teachers can align their decisions with our profession's best
understanding of how students learn.
What if we radically
changed the way high schools work and exist?
It's that
schools were designed to crank out future workers at a time when the Industrial
Revolution was in high gear. Most of us don't realize that our education system
hasn't really changed since then, when it was designed to crank out factory
workers. The whole goal was get people ready for repetition, routine, and
defined tasks. Factory education, if you will.”
Contributed by Bruce Hammonds:
Could
Rubric-Based Grading Be the Assessment of the Future?
“Institutions
of higher education are under pressure from students and employers to prove
that graduates are gaining the cross-cutting skills — such as critical
thinking, problem-solving, communication and quantitative analysis — necessary
for success in the real world. Now, a consortium of 59 universities and
community colleges in nine states is working to develop a rubric-based
assessment system that would allow them to measure these crucial skills within
ongoing coursework that students produce.”
More schools
are working to integrate the arts into classroom learning
For creative teachers
worldwide it would seem; stating the obvious!
“The arts also do so much more.They engage kids in
school, motivate them to learn, develop critical thinking, and equip them to be
creative.”
Questioning
for learning, Questioning for life.
This is the
ultimate responsibility of education – one that all too often not realised and
one that underpins the philosophy of creative teachers..
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| Rachel Carson |
“Esteemed
biologist Rachael Carson once stated , ‘If a child is to keep their inborn
sense of wonder alive he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can
share it, rediscovering with him the joy, mystery and excitement of the world
around him.’”
Am I Failing
the Introverts in My Classroom?
Bill Ferriter:
“The way in
which certain instructional trends—education buzzwords like “collaborative
learning” and “project-based learning” and “flipped classrooms”—are
applied often neglect the needs of introverts.”
Nonacademic
Skills Are Key To Success. But What Should We Call Them?
“More and more
people in education agree on the importance of learning stuff other than
academics. But no one agrees on what to call that “stuff”."
School Is Bad
For Children
John Holt:
“Almost every
child on the first day he sets foot in a school building, is smarter, more
curious, less afraid of what he doesn't know, better at finding and figuring
things out, more confident, resourceful, persistent and independent than he
will ever be again in his schooling – or, unless he is very unusual and very
lucky, for the rest of his life. Already, by paying close attention to and
interacting with the world and people around him, and without any school-type
formal instruction, he has done a task far more difficult, complicated and
abstract than anything he will be asked to do in school, or than any of his
teachers has done for years.”
From Bruce’s ‘goldie oldies’ file:
Education at a crossroad - while many
teachers seem confused in educational no mans' land
“There is a battle being fought for the
minds of our future citizens between those who see
An amoeba - a model for future change!
Lessons on learning and change from an
amoeba.
“It seems strange to think of one of
natures most simplistic animals as metaphor for an organizational model for the
future but the amoeba is a good choice, as it has survived almost as long as
life has been on the planet.”
Rip van Winkle
and schools
‘Rip Van Winkle awakens in the 21st
century after a hundred year snooze and is of course utterly bewildered by what
he sees.
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