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Article: 5 Tips For Assessing What Students Know – Articles – Educational Technology

5 Tips For Assessing What Students Know – Articles – Educational Technology

http://www.ictineducation.org/home-page/2010/7/23/5-tips-for-assessing-what-students-know.html

Article: Evaluating Teachers AND Administrators

Evaluating Teachers AND Administrators

http://educationnext.org/evaluating-teachers-and-administrators/

Amen!  Accountability for some, accountability for all!!

Article: The Ultimate Gift Guide for Educators

The Ultimate Gift Guide for Educators

http://inservice.ascd.org/teaching/the-ultimate-gift-guide-for-educators/

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Student leaders want social media back in school – CapitalGazette.com: Schools

Arundel High School junior Christian Hodges just doesn’t want to learn about world events, he wants to study it in real time.

via Student leaders want social media back in school – CapitalGazette.com: Schools.

I’m all in favor common sense rules that help students experience the bredth and creativity that is our world.  That being said, some restrictions should be recognized.  We work with the entire community to establish good rules regarding social media use and have found it to be helpful for the students.  There are ways that it can distract, but generally we’ve had successes in the past.

Article: Common Core Big Idea 3: Standards Must Be Unpacked

Common Core Big Idea 3: Standards Must Be Unpacked

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/common-core-unpack-standards-jay-mctighe-grant-wiggins

Article: Science Standards Require a Teacher-Learning Rethink

Science Standards Require a Teacher-Learning Rethink

A fascinating article that I’ll need to be reading and thinking more deeply about.  As a former science teacher I have long recognized the benefits and deficits that I had as a teacher from my teacher training.  I think that I was prepared as well as if not better than some other education programs, but I’m biased towards Ohio Wesleyan University!  If OWU is the exception, though, what needs to be done to help better prepare science teachers as we move into new state standards and inch closer to federal standards in science teaching and learning.  I think that this will come down the tubes in the next 5 years, maybe fast if the CCSS are successfully implemented.

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Article: American Institutes for Research to Enable Chromebooks to Deliver Assessments for K–12 Statewide Online Testing

American Institutes for Research to Enable Chromebooks to Deliver Assessments for K–12 Statewide Online Testing

http://www.air.org/reports-products/index.cfm?content_id=2179&fa=viewContent

Article: Common Core Big Idea Series #2: The Standards Are Not Curriculum

Common Core Big Idea Series #2: The Standards Are Not Curriculum

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/common-core-standards-not-curriculum-jay-mctighe-grant-wiggins