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the conversation about math curriculum is never ending #iTeachMath
two research-driven conclusions are consistent... First, teacher-directed instruction, with a smattering of student-directed activities, governs most lessons. Second, great variability in teaching due to teacher-crafted hybrids exists." - Larry Cuban
While the dominant teaching tradition since the closing decades of the nineteenth century has been teacher-centered, each generation of teachers since the 1920s has adopted the vocabulary and selected activities embedded in the student-centered tradition
Like most surveys, however, these are suspect because they depend upon self-reports that more often than not conflict with one another and, even worse, are unrepresentative of a state’s or nation’s teachers.
And there are teachers who recounted their lessons in blogs, social media, and articles. And, yes, there have been scattered and episodic surveys of teachers that described classroom practices, and there have been students who report on how their teachers teach.
"Even in this past decade and a half, reliable descriptions of classroom lessons and surveys of teaching practices are tough to find. Sure, there are journalists who have gone into classrooms and reported what they saw.
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“I just don’t believe, as many of the left seem to, that discipline, measurement, and academic ambition are somehow antithetical to social justice or the human spirit.”
Why Is the Left So Bad at Education? - by Ian Leslie ian-leslie.com/p/why-is-the-…
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If a Somali commits a crime in Minnesota he’s Somali but if he saves 20 kids on a runaway school bus he’s a Minnesota Man
A Minnesota man is opening up after he saved nearly 20 children when their school bus driver suffered a medical emergency.
Read more: abcnews.link/t1I488m
“Ideal national curriculum: hire the best teachers of every course, film their lessons and show them in all the nation’s schools. I’d be happy to to demote myself to classroom aide for these master teachers” - @edudissenter
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I think I might as well call it a day and quit teaching. #mtcoz #mtbos #iteachmath … a weird list conflating many different ideas and hyperbolic to say the least. A must read.
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PRESIDENT TRUMP: The war in Iran has been won.
The only one that likes to keep it going is the fake news.
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students always enter classrooms with some useful prerequisite knowledge. Students formally studying the linear equation for the first time, for example, have had a variety of prior experiences and learning that prepare them for the “new” things they will encounter. #iTeachMath
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If all we did was constructivist, inquiry-based learning, teachers would rightly push back, saying sometimes students require information/steps to succeed.
So why, when we're increasingly restricted to teacher-centered, explicit teaching, is it a problem to ask for some inquiry?