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
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.
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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!
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
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.
There’s undeniable science behind #teaching and #learning, but #progressives in #schools go through cycles of forgetfulness in an ongoing zeal to perfect the instruments. (I say that as a progressive.) Science requires inquiry, which requires curiosity, which requires engagement and relationship. #Teachers wield a humanity that includes—but does not end with—science in their craft. #education@edutooters@edutooter@edutooter
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
Hey 👋 #teachers! Over the last couple of weeks, we've added new cool features on @elemedu and lots of open educational resources, too.
Most of them are in Greek, but we hope to have more materials for the English-speaking world soon.
If you are interested in discovering and/or sharing educational resources, you should definitely join us at elemedu.com. The platform is free to use, privacy focused, and teachers have complete control over their materials licensing. @edutooters#teaching#education
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.
10 years ago, teacher Twitter was extremely helpful to me. There's the #teaching hashtag here, which is nice, but are most people still on X? Or worse, Facebook?
Trying to build that side of my timeline back up. Boots appreciated along with recommendations of who to follow.
@brianb
Hi Brian. Not sure how #chemistry specific
you are hoping your community to be? Albeit, you might want to check out who is following
the @edutooters group.
Also, you can have a look to see who is participating in Miguels education community @mguhlin