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How much do you think you know about science compared to the average Earthling? Take Pew Research Center’s 13 question Science and Technology Knowledge Quiz and see where you stack up.
Hopefully reading It’s Okay To Be Smart will help you all get 100%. How’d you do?
100%!!!
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The Imaginary Teacher Shortage
Parents like the idea of smaller class sizes in the same way that people like the idea of having a personal chef. Parents imagine that their kids will have one of the Iron Chefs. But when you have to hire almost 3.3 million chefs, you’re liable to end up with something closer to the fry-guy from the local burger joint.
There is also a trade-off between the number of teachers we have and the salary we can offer to attract better-quality people. As the teacher force has grown by almost 50% over the past four decades, average salaries for teachers (adjusted for inflation) have grown only 11%, the Department of Education reports. Imagine what kinds of teachers we might be able to recruit if those figures had been flipped and we were offering 50% more pay without having significantly changed student-teacher ratios. Having better-paid but fewer teachers could also save us an enormous amount on pension and health benefits, which have risen far more than salaries in cost per teacher over the past four decades.
photo via flickr:CC | mpancha
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”The solution to fix this problem to make the American dream possible for all citizens is to write new science (and mathematics) standards. According to Achieve, quality science teaching is based on content standards “that are rich in content and practice, with aligned curricula, pedagogy, assessment and teacher preparation. One could argue that quality science teaching is not based on authoritarian content standards, but much richer standards of teaching that form the foundation of professional teaching.
http://www.artofteachingscience.org/2012/05/17/content-standards-science-teach-meaningful-learning/
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”the common core (a kind of intended curriculum) sits on top of the implemented and achieved curriculum. The implemented curriculum is what teachers do with their students day-to-day. It is full of variation within a school. Two biology teachers in the same school will get very different results for a lot of different factors. But as far as the state is concerned, the achieved curriculum is all that matters
http://www.artofteachingscience.org/2012/05/17/content-standards-science-teach-meaningful-learning/
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13 Ounces or Less, a group on Flickr.
I love the idea of mailing items of unusual shapes and sizes!
As long as items are 13 ounces or less, and do not contain liquids or anything hazardous they are game to be shipping when weighed and proper postage is applied.
While this photo stream has not been updated recently I am considering being “that weird aunt” and starting a tradition of my own.
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”@web20classroom: Redefining Instruction With Technology: Five Essential Steps: http://t.co/W3zN1ly9” don’t just add tech, “take a sledgehammer to your existing classroom framework.
@web20classroom via @McLeod
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”It is a feeling that no matter what the ideas or conduct of others, there is a unique rightness and beauty to life which can be shared in openness, in wind and sunlight, with a fellow human being who believes in the same basic principles
Sylvia Plath (Unitarian Universalist, poet, literary critic, novelist)
(Source: uuquotes)
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Summer Reading
@hike22 I found some summer reading:
‘The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything’ by By: Ken Robinson, Lou Aronica
‘Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World’
‘Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative’ By: Ken Robinsonvia @amazon
(Source: amazon.com)
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