Archive | June, 2012

ThinkingEDU 22: Professional Development or Professional Demeaning

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Merianna wonders about whether professional development conferences that gear towards mandates issued by non-teaching policymakers are really professional development at all. Are teachers living into the stereotype that media and government have created? Is there a chance for teachers to regain their sense of identity?

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Annual Conference and Common Core

Common Core

An Alternative to Common Core

About 18 and change

 

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ThinkingDaily: How Should You Go to School?

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The question shifts from where you should go to school to how you should go to school… or does it?

A few cliff notes:

1. Be authentic

2. Acquire micro-credentials

3. Your resume should reflect what you’ve built, not what you’ve studied

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Khan Academy

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Carolina Day School

About 20 minutes and change

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