UPDATE: #data that matters… + #ASCDforum discussing #teacher #education – @ the chalk face

#ASCDforum discussing #teacher #education – @ the chalk face:

Allow me to revisit the previous #SOTU on #education

by Chalk Face, PhD

 Much, much ado about what the President will say about education in tomorrow’s SOTU address. The Answer Sheet has what SHOULD be said. But I’m revisiting a post I have up here from the previous SOTU speech. The image to the left is a Wordle graphic of the speech. Notice how, from the transcript, the word APPLAUSE is the most prominent one. That’s because, well, he didn’t really say much about anything, and I don’t expect that to happen again.

#ASCDforum discussing #teacher #education

by Chalk Face, PhD

Use the titled hashtag to discuss teacher education with ASCD. I scanned the link they provided, and here’s what I saw:

Educators have begun to make their voices heard. For example, 2012 Emerging Leader and Regional Science Coordinator Fred Ende has five suggestions for improving teacher preparation:

• Prepare educators to be specialists, instead of generalists.
• Provide clarity around the certification process.
• Connect K–12 educators with postsecondary educators to share curricula and methodology.
• Get parents and students involved in teacher education classes.
• Start recruiting teachers at the high school level.

Perhaps I have to respond to the original post by Ende, which is here. As a teacher educator myself, let me respond to each of the above from my experiences.

• Specialists? Well, how would that apply to elementary education? No one ever seems to adress eled. We 

Hey, @cornelwest, WE’RE not silent. They just won’t listen. Help us. #edreform #progressives

by Chalk Face, PhD

Good video. Now, fair reader, help us reach the hell out, will you?

Have you seen this apology from a high school teacher? #highered

by Chalk Face, PhD

I’m really liking Ken Bernstein’s apology to higher education faculty from a high school teacher. Actually, it’s a warning. A warning, it is.
From my experience, I just started recently teaching freshmen who could have been fifth graders I taught years ago at the pre-dawn of NCLB. Unfortunately, I don’t have the kind of perspective as someone who has been in higher education for years and years.

#data that matters…

by Timothy D. Slekar

but will never show up on your school’s “Data Wall.”