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When I did a Google search for the subject, the Art of Teaching, I came up with 160 million entries. There were articles on the art of teaching, a book entitled, Zen and Art of Teaching, academies devoted to the “art of teaching,” and a subheading under classroom management page of www.teachervision.com, called the “art…
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The topic of faculty evaluation has been front-and-center as a result of President Obama’s Race-to-the-Top initiative. Many states, which submitted RT3 grants and had them approved, had to commit to improving their framework for faculty evaluation. In most cases, new state frameworks involve linking a teacher’s evaluation to their students’ test score data. There are…
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With the passage of the Charter School Amendment in Georgia, Amendment 1 on the ballot, now is the time to plan and look ahead. While I did not support the amendment because I believe we need to invest in improving our public schools, using tax dollars to innovate the teaching and learning environment, I do…
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Educators from all over the country, many in higher education, are writing about the state of affairs in faculty evaluation in K-12 schools. The current edition of Phi Delta Kappan is devoted to teacher evaluation. While I have not all the articles in this edition, I intend to make my way through them to continue my quest…
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Read these statistics and see what you think about President Obama’s desire to provide our schools with a rich set of resources to improve STEM education in our public schools. These statistics come from the National Math and Science Initiative research. Our need to improve STEM or STEAM is critical: Only 29 percent of American…
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