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This was a good interview with Deborah Gist, the Commission of Elementary and Secondary Education in Rhode Island. She discusses what Rhode Island is doing to rollout their new Teacher Evaluation model. Gradual rollout before full implementation has been important, as well as involving teachers in the process. She doesn’t discuss this in her interview,…
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Brian Goldman is a doctor who has made mistakes. He tells his personal story about how making mistakes in medicine is the ‘great secret.’ Doctors don’t want to admit that they make mistakes. They are forced to go underground and bury their shame over being human. As I listened to his compelling story, I couldn’t…
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I had the luxury of time today and spent part of my day listening to Rick Wormeli’s series on assessment, grading, and related practices that matter in the lives of teachers. At the Center for Teaching, we are working closely with Westminster’s Elementary School Assessment Task Force, a group of dedicated educators that have spent…
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Yesterday, we heard from Chris Cannon, a 2011-2012 Teacher of the Year recipient and economics teacher at Sandy Creek High School in Tyrone, GA. He shared with us his work on test corrections, “How Re-Dos and Corrections Can Improve Your Teaching?” (click here for his presentation on his website). The 20 cohort members in attendance were very engaged and…
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I watched this very interesting TED talk this afternoon, Massive-scale online collaboration. Luis von Ahn, computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University, “builds systems that combine humans and computers to solve large-scale problems that neither can solve alone.” He calls this work, Human Computation. In this talk he describes his team’s research that resulted in…
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