Gifts and Talents

How can we ensure gifted and talented students are provided with opportunities to actively engage in learning?

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Pauli Coelho your words always find peace in me

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The Global Search for Education: How to Improve - From Finland

“I want everyone in a school to experience a sense of joy, and to learn.”– Mikko Salonen

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Leading with our own hearts and minds

This quote has always been a reminder to me to open my heart and mind to the people and situations I encounter as an educator. I needed this reminder because the pressure to implement a new policy, program or initiative often filtered or blocked what I needed to see right in front of me: Human beings engaged with other human beings trying to do their best. I wanted to make sure that the human element of education stayed at the center what I did and guided my thinking, speaking and acting. Today, however, it seems even harder for educators to stay centered on what education is really all about. Sometimes we are so busy that we don’t even hear the knocking at our door…

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Teaching the Why, Not Just the What, of Geography

Let me suggest, therefore, that teachers and especially administrators would be better served if the editors of academic briefs would try to solicit ideas from people recognized as experts, in addition to enthusiastic novices, within each field, and insist that people have tried an idea several times, refining it in response to both formative feedback and summative assessment of its effectiveness, before publishing it as a recommendation for others to follow.

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Rethinking Teacher Time

Students perform better in schools where teachers have meaningful collaboration with their peers for extended periods of time. So Kentucky teacher leaders are posing this challenge: Rethink professional learning and restructure the school day to make learning more effective for students and teachers.

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Good luck EES students :)

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Interesting! How do your musical tastes stack up?

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Using Social Media in the Classroom: Why There’s A Lot to Like

While teachers should be mindful about creating professional (not personal) accounts to ensure privacy, they can use social media platforms as novel ways to teach and share information, as well as to establish an online connection with their students. Gone are the days when “turning in” work meant waiting until Monday morning, as students and teachers can now discuss assignments at every step of the process. Teachers can create hashtags that allow students to tag their academic posts, and subsequently view submissions to see what the collective has creatively produced. Students can create Facebook groups for team projects, and teachers can facilitate as “guides by the side” when needed. And perhaps Instagram can be used a tool for capturing real-time visual concepts in the real world, not only when the student sits down to write a paper or work on a project in the musty library long after inspiration has passed.

image via flickr:CC | Mark J P

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Yes it would!

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Play with me..,,

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Love this

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I’m a firm believer that showing is way more effective than telling. So I’m wondering if you could give a presentation in class and five minutes before the class ends distribute or post a list of the five or six essential points made. Students could check their notes, or you could have students trade notes so that someone else is doing the checking, and see how many of those points they had. Now some students may miss a few of the points because they aren’t all that good at taking notes, but were some of the students who missed most (all) of the points also texting or surfing during class?

Encourage them to ask themselves the question and to look honestly at the evidence revealed by their notes.

No, you aren’t going to be providing one of these lists at the end of every class, but you may consider doing it sometime during the next couple of weeks as the new semester begins. And if students are really interested in knowing how texting affects what they’re getting out of class, they should try listening and taking notes without doing anything else.

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Novelist Joe Dunthorne draws an illustrated map of “the mess of influences, anxieties, past failures, hopes, enemies, distractions and stimulants [of] each writing day” in this unusual compendium of maps as wayfinding for the soul.

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There is lots of work and talk these days about social and emotional learning. The need for resiliency, grit and determination has become part of the parlance of many educators, and this is a good thing. But there is hardly any reference to humor and happiness. Ever wonder why? Is there anything more specific and salutary to life than the capacity to laugh?

Laughter and learning (via gjmueller)

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Isn’t that the truth? http://on.fb.me/17smqhL

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Formative Assessment And Technology

Use tools like Google Forms, Polleverywhere, Socrative, Voice Thread, etc to have students connect with you and their classmates to demonstrate their understanding.

Using Twitter, create a class hashtag for a particular discussion, or use a Tweet as an exit ticket.

Using a smartphone, use the notes function to brainstorm, and then text or share with the teacher and class (can use linoit or padlet).

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Gats

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Assessment - nice infographic