If the “riddle” of public #education in America is how to ensure a future that guarantees both individual liberty and collective success, then what do #schools need to do next? What is the immediate next level of work? What should we be doing that we’re not, and what should we stop doing? @edutooter@edutooters@edutooter#teachers
@jeffmoore
Way too much for a single toot, but I guess the first step is stop using standardized tests to measure schools. Really all the current measures we use to evaluate schools should be thrown out. I'm not sure what exactly to replace it with, but the measure should be a political and developed by education experts who are still connected to classrooms in a regular basis. @edutooter@edutooters@edutooter
@dendari@edutooter@edutooters@edutooter Yes! Trust and empower schools to preserve the future rather than judge them by nationalist, competitive metrics that are always behind the curve.
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This is a fascinating book that I think all school leaders and those with the ability to create culture should read: "What Makes Teachers Unhappy and What Can You Do About It?" by Mark Solomons and Fran Abrams. Less about doughnuts in the staff room and 'optional' yoga workshops, more about real, systemic change #Teachers#Teaching#Education#WellBeing#edutooter#AmReading@education@bookstodon
Hello, everyone!
It's time for a proper #introduction!
I'm Nefeli, a 2nd grade #teacher from Greece.
I'm mostly interested in #education and #edtech 👩🏫👩💻
In my spare time, I'm also building @elemedu, an #OER sharing platform for school #teachers!
I'd love to connect with #educators who share the same interests. @edutooters
@jeffmoore@edutooter@edutooters@edutooter Which institutions are limiting their response to risk mitigation? I think examples are important, especially in a pro-AI discussion.
Hello #Education friends! I'm working on a manuscript that describes philosophical foundations of #PublicEd in the US, describes how the enterprise went off the rails with misunderstanding of “#progressive” and more, and places #schools within the administrative state in the US (with a call to reinvent the work of that state so that it’s more person- and mission-centered). Thread continues …
@edutooters@edutooter The work then goes on to describe #StrategicPlanning and other practical protocols for aligning the work of #teachers and #students to a school's (and all of education’s) mission and goals. Particularly, I recommend "theory of action" as a path toward reinventing strategic planning and, thus, reinventing the work of schools.
First, does this sound interesting for education leaders?
Second, if so, what publishers would folks recommend?
I wan to make a request to #Science#Teachers: When you design labs please design some (most) without step-by-step instructions. The chances of your students needing pipette skills in 10 years is remote. What will serve most student better will be the ability to identify a problem, design and experiment that might explain that problem, setup and run that experiment, then interpret the results. Perhaps followed up by design a second experiment if the first didn't help.
Save the "follow the recipe" skills for home ec. The most important thing you can teach your student at any level is experimental design.
Im a bit confused as to what your suggesting, and before I formed an opinion I wanted some clarity.
So are you suggesting to leave out the step by step instructions because you want them to solve the problem on themselves and figure it out with less instruction so they learn more through trial and error?
Or are you suggesting pippette skills and similar skills, since they wont be needed in 10 years, should be skipped entierly, and you are suggesting this because the other skills are important, so more time should be focused on those?
Secondary school students in the U.S. and elsewhere might benefit from a similar approach, because the assignment is to summarize a reading, connect it to their own experience, and then express what they think about the ideas in the article. With these three skills called for, and content tailored to the class, it is quite evident how much the students have relied upon their own thinking and effort.
Any #compsci teachers who use GitHub Codespaces (or similar) for teaching? We're a Chromebook school and can't put student devices into developer mode because of reasons. Codespaces seems like a good fit for different runtimes, but I have zero experience.
Any tips or thoughts would be appreciated. We're hoping to start in fall of 2024, so I have some time to tinker.
I am at the SLATE conference in Wisconsin Dells today through Wednesday (and presenting on Tuesday!). If any other Wisconsin teachers will be there feel free to swing by and say hello!
There are tweaks I'll make in the future, but my first impression is a positive one. Totally changed the atmosphere of the room and the body language of the students - there is much less "defeatism" and a lot more self confidence.