Another Nail In VAM’s Coffin?
The American Statistical Association issued a report today containing many criticisms of how Value-Added Measurement is used in teacher evaluations today. It’s not that lengthy, but you can read a summary at Education Week. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Learning About The “Value-Added” Approach Towards Teacher Evaluation and to The Best Places To Learn What Impact A Teacher & Outsid
Webby Nominees Announced — Here Are A Couple That Look Good
Nominees for this year’s Webby Awards (highlighting the “best of the web) have just been announced. You can see them all here. Here are a couple of particularly good sites I haven’t posted about previously: How to put a human on Mars is from the BBC. I’m adding it to The Best Sites For Learning About Planets & Space. Ready, Set, Grad is an exceptional site from Washington state, but it’s usab
The Best Posts & Videos About Sugata Mitra & His Education Ideas
Professor Sugata Mitra and is famous for his “holes in the wall” experiments where he placed computers in impoverished Indian communities and students “self-organized” their instruction. Professor Mitra was awarded the TED Prize last year, and expanded his work with that support. I’ve previously published some fairly popular posts about Professor Sugata Mitra. The first post was one where I share
4-7-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: My Latest NY Times Post Is On Lying As A Language-Learning ActivityHow can lying be a good language-learning activity? See how in my latest New York Times post for English Language Learners. A student interactive and fun teaching ideas are included. You can see all my many previous NY Times posts here.by Larry Ferlazzo / 2h