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Posted on Jan 20, 2010 - 10:05 PM by Alison Bagg Brink in ImprovEducation
EEEK! Finals!
Finals…I type ‘em, they take ‘em. They stress, I correct.
No, it is much more than that. I sit down and try to create a test that is fair and relevant. I pull from the most important Spanish grammar concepts, the most used (or useful) vocabulary I have taught, and the most interesting stories we have read, and create questions that get to the heart of the matter.
I am required by my school to provide a culminating task that is relevant to the class. I am required by my department to provide a written test. I have nearly two hundred students. To maintain any sanity at all, I give a multiple guess final. Oh, make that multiple choice…
Supposedly, if students do well on...
Raining on My Students’ ParadesPosted on Apr 12, 2010 - 09:31 AM by Kristan Morrison in democracy.edu
My graduate students tell me that I am depressing them - that I am the unfunny version of Saturday Night Live's Debbie Downer . Well, they didn't actually call me that, but that's sometimes how I feel. I teach the foundations of education course at my university. This is the class where American education is looked at through a critical lens - comparing the historical, Jeffersonian democratic citizenship purpose of education to the social mobility purposes that seem most paramount in schools today. We explore and critique different philosophies of education, deconstruct our society's current politicization of education, examine the injustices of our education system's funding practices,... They Literally Threw in the SinkPosted on Apr 18, 2010 - 10:35 PM by Ammerah Saidi in The Learning Curve
You know that line we say when someone goes overboard: "He threw in everything but the kitchen sink." Well, some boys at my school wanted to make sure to include the sink into whatever they were mixing because they ripped it out of the wall in one of their bathrooms.What does this have to do with democratic education? It's a clear sign that the type of education they were getting was anything but. I remember reading Ain't No Makin' It by Jay MacLeod and it was in this book that I first learned about how acts of disobedience can sometimes be a way for someone to regain or attain power he/she has lost. This made me look at gum chewing, skipping, cursing, graffiti, and now sink-pulling... What’s up with June anyway?
Posted on Jun 09, 2010 - 10:35 AM by Jonah Canner in Got Questions?
Question: According to the calendar there are still two and a half weeks of school left, but according to my students school ended the second the temperature in my classroom reached 90 degrees two weeks ago. I'm usually a laid back teacher who has a very good relationship with her students but at the end of the year they start bouncing off the wall and reverting to behaviors they haven't shown in months. Is there anything I can do about this or should I just suck it up and pray that nothing goes terribly wrong over the next two weeks?- Anonymous Middle School Teacher
Endings are hard. They might be the hardest thing to do well. Don't believe me? Go watch a movie. How many times have... Are we really Waiting for Superman?
Posted on Sep 22, 2010 - 08:37 AM by Dana Bennis in The Landscape
In two days, one of the most well publicized education documentaries in recent memory premiers in several cities around the country - Waiting for Superman. You may have already heard about it on The Oprah Show, in Time magazine, or from any number of other sources. Most of the coverage in these media outlets has been overwhelmingly positive, and there are many big name supporters of the film, including Bill Gates and the controversial Chancellor of D.C. Schools, Michelle Rhee, in addition to the big-name director of the film, Davis Guggenheim of An Inconvenient Truth.In short, the documentary profiles 5 children and their families who are hoping to get into charter schools as a way in... Unraveling the “Teacher Shortage” Problem
Posted on Dec 17, 2010 - 11:15 AM by Shawn Strader in Resources
Opportunities to Learn in America’s Elementary ClassroomsPosted on Dec 17, 2010 - 11:47 AM by Shawn Strader in Resources
Education on the Huffington PostPosted on Dec 20, 2010 - 06:52 PM by Shawn Strader in Resources
Diplomas Count: An Essential Guide to Graduation Policy and RatesPosted on Jan 06, 2011 - 12:23 AM by Shawn Strader in Resources
Introducing Democratic Education (Lesson Plan)Posted on Jan 13, 2011 - 06:11 PM by Shawn Strader in Resources
FrameWorks InstitutePosted on Jan 14, 2011 - 04:41 PM by Shawn Strader in Resources