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Chapter 1 Claim Statement 1: Visions Include Steps
Help students feel valued as individuals
Teaching appropriate curriculum that the students needed for future success
Making sure that the students felt safe while they were at school
Making sure that the kids came to school in the first place
Chapter 1 Claim Statement 2: Education is a Hot Political Issue
Social - provide all students with opportunities to prosper, succeed, and become active, engaged citizens
Personal - the need for all students to realize their potential and to live fulfilled and productive lives
Cultural - passing on values and traditions from one generation to the next
Economic prosperity - governments know that a well-educated workforce is crucial to this
Chapter 2 Claim Statement 1: Industrial Revolution
New sort of society began to form - base was a new urban working class
Old nobility still existed
Middle class who were owners and masters of industry (doctors, lawyers, etc)
Demand grew for organized systems of mass education. Income from taxation and growing spending power made this possible.
Chapter 2 Claim Statement 2: Organic Education
Health - organic education promotes the development and well-being of the whole student
Ecology - recognizes the vital interdependence of all of these aspects of development
Fairness - cultivates the individual talents and potential of all students
Care - creates optimum conditions for students' development
Chapter 3 Claim Statement 1: Rules with Room
Opportunities for change exist in every school
Many habits are voluntary rather than mandated (teaching by age groups)
innovation is possible because of the sort of system that education actually is
Chapter 3 Claim Statement 2: A Great Deal of Learning Goes on Outside the Formal Setting of Schools
revolutionizing education from the ground up
create conditions in which the relationship between students and teachers can flourish
focus of education has to be creating the conditions in which students will want and be able to learn
happens where there are willing learners and engaging teachers
Chapter 4 Claim Statement 1: Natural Learners
Young children absorb language just by being exposed to it
You may correct or encourage them but you don't sit them down and say "we need to talk"
If you are a parent, you don't teach your children how to speak
Sugata Mitra tested this question in 1999 in New Delhi
Chapter 4 Claim Statement 2: Diversity of Intelligence
Enabling students to pursue their own interests and strengths
Assessment that supports personal progress and achievement
Adapt the schedule to the rate at which individual students learn
Child's play
Chapter 5 Claim Statement 1: What are Teachers For?
standards focus on curriculum and assessment
teaching is seen as a way of delivering the standards
Formal education has 3 elements: curriculum, teaching, assessment
the core role of the teacher is to facilitate learning but much of what we are expected to do is something other than teaching
Chapter 5 Claim Statement 2: Achieving a Balance
Teachers need to empower. We need to be mentors and guides.
Teachers need to enable through direct instruction, whole group, small group, or one-on-one
Teachers need to engage, inspire, enthuse
Teachers need to expect and convey to the students that we expect them to do well
Chapter 6 Claim Statement 1: What's Worth Knowing?
Mode - how students engage with the curriculum
Ethos - general atmosphere and character of schooling (hidden curriculum)
Content - material that has to be learned
The 8 C's - Curiosity, Creativity, Criticism, Communication, Collaboration, Compassion, Composure, Citizenship
Chapter 7 Claim Statement 2: Need for Assessments
assessments and testing is good, but not all the time
PISA - never heard of that either - now I need to look it up
assessment has several roles - diagnostic, formative, summative
Some teachers use a wide variety of assessment methods and some teachers have completely cut it out of their classrooms!
Chapter 6 Claim Statement 2: Disciplines
opens up all the possibilities of interdisciplinary activities
balanced curriculum should give equal status to the following: arts, humanities, language arts, mathematics, physical education, and science
mixture of theory and practice
Democracy!
Chapter 7 Claim Statement 1: Testing
competition between students, teacher, schools, districts, and now countries!
Never have I ever heard of FairTest but now I am intrigued as to what they do and why I have never heard of it before
some parents ask for their children to be diagnosed so they can get extra help on the standardized tests
Four major players - Pearson, McGraw-Hill, Riverside Publishing, Education Testing Services
Chapter 8 Claim Statement 2: Habits and Habitats
must break old habits that get in the way of learning
physical environment of a school affects how it feels and works
many schools are organized as they are because they always have been, not because they must be
some feel impersonal and others feel vibrant and alive
Chapter 8 Claim Statement 1: 3 Figures
leader needs to be inspired and inspiring
leader needs to bring vision, skill, and a keen understanding of the the kinds of environments where learners can and want to learn
Learner, Educator, Leader
Change in leadership can transform expectations and culture of the school
Chapter 9 Claim Statement 1: It All Stems from HOME
parents are struggling more and more to raise children and stay financially sound
see the individual - not everyone is the same!
parents spend more time with their children than teachers and while us teachers know what is best for all kids, parents know what is best for THEIR kid
parent involvement is important but don't be a helicopter parent!
Chapter 9 Claim Statement 2: Edutopia
be there virtually, smart phones, smart schools
seize the media moment, make reading a family affair
Go where your parents are, welcome everyone
bring the conversation home, student-led parent conferences
get families moving, build parent partnerships
Chapter 10 Claim Statement 1: Fostering Health
expert teachers
uplifting vision
enthusiastic learners
Chapter 10 Claim Statement 2: Nurturing the Ecology
alignment and coherence
well focused resources
inspiring leaders
Side Note: Vision + Skills + Incentives + Resources + Action Plan = Change
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