1-14-14 @ The Chalk Face

@ THE CHALK FACE:

The Policy Implications of Market-Driven Research, Part V

I have long been frustrated by the Shanker’s Institute’s Matt DiCarlo’s equating the spin of corporate reformers with the counter-arguments of teachers and education experts. When reading DiCarlo’s earlier account of Thomas Dee’s and James Wyckoff’s “Incentives, Selection, and Teacher Performance,” I started cussing at the computer. He challenged the national education reformers’ chorus that […]

5 by John Thompson / 1h 

Smagorinsky on Authentic Teacher Evaluation

Smagorinsky on Authentic Teacher Evaluation. via Smagorinsky on Authentic Teacher Evaluation.

1 by plthomasedd / 22min 

1-13-14 @ The Chalk Face

@ THE CHALK FACE: Learning to teach reading from Whitey McWhiterson and her twin sisterI don’t mean to bring race or whatever into this. Good teaching is good teaching, right? But the reader might know about my frustrations with early literacy instruction as of late, particularly guided reading.  When examining a few new models and other suggestions, here’s what I see: white kids, white lily class

by mike simpson / 13h