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A Video Worth Watching: “Gold Medalist Jordan Chiles Surprises Her Favorite Teacher” – Maybe Good For PD
This could be a good video for professional development – show it to teachers and discuss what Chiles remembers. Then ask, “What would former students remember about your classroom?”       Review Of Research Suggests Reciprocal Teaching Could Be Best Strategy For Older Readers
Researcher Nathaniel Hansford reviewed 1,500 studies on reading comprehension, and came up with some important conclusions that you can read at My Best Advice for Reading Comprehension. The most important point for teachers of students in fourth-grade and above seemed to be the value of reciprocal teaching (which I’ve posted about before at New Meta-Analysis Identifies Instructional Strategies To Help Struggling Adolescent Readers. The “classical” definition of reciprocal teaching is putting students in groups of four to read a text together, and with each one having one of these responsibilities – predicting, clarifying, questioning and summarizing. Practically speaking, I’ve never been a fan of reading in a group of four. Very often, I’d have students divide into pairs to read (perhaps the first three pages of a history textbook or do it as a jigsaw with groups assigned to different pages.). On a graphic organizer or in their notebook, I’d first ask them to predict what the text was about. Then, I ask them to take turns reading paragraphs to each other. At the end of each page, I’d ask them to identify a word that was new to them, write a question they had about the text, and then a one sentence summary of the page. Then, everyone would come back together, and different students would share with the class. It generally worked quite well. I’m adding this info to The Best Posts On Reading Strategies & Comprehension – Help Me Find More!  Sentences Of The Week geralt / Pixabay
I thought readers might, or might not, find this new regular post useful. Each week, I highlight several sentences, with links to their sources, that I find interesting/concerning/useful. And they may, or may not, be directly connected to education. I may also include my own comments or related links. This regular post will join my other regular ones on teaching ELLs, education policy, Artificial Intelligence, infographics, and Pinterest highlights, not to mention sharing of my regular Education Week posts. Here are this week’s sentences: When you start handing out devices very quickly without preparing teachers, without carefully selecting the tools, without monitoring them for quality, stuff starts to go off the rails. I’d be looking for the candidates who are thinking and running as if they know that bases are made of people, not dollars. Many kids “do not care about the things we are teaching them,” Justin Reich, the director of the MIT Teaching Systems Lab, told us. The question schools should ask isn’t, “How much time can AI save teachers?” It’s, “Which parts of teachers’ work must remain cognitively and professionally theirs because pupils’ learning depends on them?” The children in “The Day You Begin” find that their stories do matter. Despite moments of feeling that no one else is remotely like them, they discover that their diverse backgrounds and passions contribute to their community’s richness. When someone leaves your office, your meeting, or your classroom this school year, will they leave feeling stronger or smaller? Hanford’s series assigns a tremendous amount of power to a specific idea. If only! The Trump administration’s culture war on universities died this week—not with a bang, but with a whimper. It is far harder to make successful students than it is to select them in advance. “If there’s one lesson from the history of technology, it is that these changes are hard to predict,” wrote Rogé Karma. This is worth keeping in mind next time you hear someone say that schools need to prepare students for the future economy. Bias in teacher evaluations is a real problem, complicating performance pay systems. “Teachers with higher-achieving and less disruptive students, holding constant the teacher and school, receive systematically higher performance ratings,” concluded a pair of researchers in a recent study. In general, however, users have tended to support the watermarking system as a sensible way to track material that was generated by algorithm. “There is literally no good argument for why this isn’t a good idea,” a user on another thread said. “The only reason you wouldn’t want this is to lie to people.”
 Yet Another Study Finds That Human Connection & Relationships Are Key In Schooling Tumisu / Pixabay
Supporting Student Engagement During Remote Learning: Three Randomized Controlled Trials in Chicago Public Schools is a study (not behind a paywall) that focuses on remote learning, but I suspect its lessons can be more generalized. I reviewed it, but was feeling a bit lazy at the time. So I asked ChatGPT to summarize it. Based on my review of the study itself, I can confirm that this AI-generated summary is accurate:  This Week’s “Round-Up” Of Useful Posts & Articles On Ed Policy Issues
Here are some recent useful posts and articles on educational policy issues (You might also be interested in seeing all my “Best” lists related to education policy here): Emily Hanford’s Story Was Basically Wrong is from Michael Pershan. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Learning About Balanced Literacy & The “Reading Wars”
The Differences Between IEPs and 504 Plans: A Special Education Explainer is from Ed Week. I’m adding it to THE BEST RESOURCES ABOUT IEPS,
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