Monday, October 18, 2010. Found to Recruit Fewer Teachers From Top Ranks. Countries with the best-performing school systems largely recruit teachers from the top third of high school and college graduates, while the United States has difficulty attracting its top students to the profession, a new report finds. Monday, October 4, 2010. PURPOSE AND BENEFITS OF FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT.

How to Host an Edchat Interactive. Why We Do What We Do. Edchat Interactive is revolutionizing the way we participate in online PD. Edchat Interactive is live video peer-to-peer sharing of education best practices. Provide the means for education innovators to transform education outcomes through sharing their knowledge and techniques with other educators in an engaging environment. Game, part of the Serious Play Conference.

KU Center for Research on Learning. Mission of the Kansas Coaching Project. The purpose of the Kansas Coaching Project is to study factors related to professional learning and how to improve academic outcomes for students through supports provided by instructional coaches. Instructional coaches are onsite professional developers who teach educators how to use evidence-based teaching practices and to support them in learning and applying these practices in a variety of educational settings.

Reflections and resources on teaching, teacher education and mathematics education. If Schools Were More Like Coderdojos, How Would Teaching Change? In a previous post. I wrote about features of coderdojos that could be emulated in schools. 1 Learning comes about through solving specific problems. 2 Learners choose the problems and tasks that they work on. 3 Mentors are experts in the content to be learned but not necessarily in pedagogy. 8 The atmosphere is informal.

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Welcome to the Site! The site is designed to support both teachers and teacher coaches to increase student achievement and demystify high-impact strategies for quality instruction. Shelby County Schools is currently revamping literacy instruction in our district. The roll-out of the plan will begin on March 7 at our make-up District Learning Day.