Teaching

Sites for Teachers offers hundreds of educational websites ranked by popularity. Check it out by subject matter, rank order, etc. A useful reference also for education software developers. Sites for Teachers

Bob's Blog has posted a useful review of the 2008 "MetLife Survey of Teachers, Principals and Students." It identifies changes to a similar survey taken in 1984.Many of the findings are substantially more positive than they have been in the past. Teachers today are more satisfied in their careers than teachers were in earlier years. Today more teachers feel respected in society, recognized for...

This checklist about learning centered lesson plans drills down to essential steps learners use to adopt behavior patterns offered in each lesson. TIPSheet 1.1: First, center on learning processes, next on content, and then on instruction. Introduction: In a decisive school like NESI-CS, teachers use this list to insure that they fix attention on learning centered lessons. Theoretical and heuristic ways exist to generalize...

This New Era School Initiative (NESI) TIPSheet 4 offers a school objective consistent with national recognition of a local educator. The target is the NESI first principle, a one point checklist: "Instructional failure is not an option." Josh Keller reports that President Barack Obama has nominated Martha J. Kanter as Under Secretary of Education. I see it very simply," Ms. Kanter says of her...

The graduate student conducting the study "Why Science Teachers Quit Teaching" extends his appreciation for your generious responses to his request for online participants. Together, you added insightful data to his study. I'll post an update when appropriate, after his dissertation committee gives the go ahead. Thank you, one and all for your assistance. Why Science Teachers Quit Teaching

A science educator and doctoral student is conducting a survey study of why new science teachers quit teaching. The reseacher and his support team invites your participation in the study. I agreed to post this invitation in order to assist him to receive online responses to compare with those obtained through a controlled distribution of responses through public school channels.This educator is a published...

A father sent an email checking his view of how to talk with a teacher about grading his daughter's group project. Perhaps others will find interest in this exchange. His email, my response, and his report of the conference with the teacher follow, edited by me. Father's EmailI stumbled on your posting at The Tablet PC Web Site Blog ... and would like to...

"Like it or not, 140 characters or less, is currently a new container for ideas. And that makes things interesting." It also raises the question again, Do teachers talk too much? I wonder, would students learn more if teachers and ed software developers limited their points to 120 characters or less?Former Financial Times journalist Tom Foremski, 140 characters ... Do teachers talk too much?

The Center on Education Policy invites attendees at a forum to consider the Federal role in improving teaching.When: March 5th from 10:00 a.m. to noon Where: 2261 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, D.C. The forum will consider a paper by Gary Sykes and Kenne Dibner, both of Michigan State University. The paper provides evidence of the effects of various programs, initiatives, and recommendations....

Most of the students at Graham Road Elementary School are the children of very recent immigrants and speak a language other than English at home; about 80 percent meet the requirements for the federal free and reduced-price meal program. Just a few years ago, the school was one of the lowest performing schools in Fairfax County Virginia. Because of thoughtful organization and a relentless...