There’s an oft-repeated critique of the education policy overhaul Indiana’s seen in recent years. An increased emphasis on exam scores, the line goes, has created a “one-size-fits-all accountability system [that] pressures school districts to spend an inordinate amount of time teaching to the test” — a charge many testing supporters call unfair. One scholar at [...]
The REPA II teacher licensure rules have put two priorities of teacher prep in the spotlight: a teacher’s pedagogical skills and a teacher’s content knowledge.
‘REPA II’ means you don’t need an ed degree to become a teacher in Indiana, but you will need specific training.
StateImpact spoke to a teacher from one of the state’s highest-poverty schools about how her colleagues handled the IREAD-3.
It’s no secret that job dissatisfaction among teachers has reached an all-time high. But among the predictable factors behind this trend — shrinking budgets, increasing class sizes, frustrations over policy — there’s another reason that’s not talked about as much: not enough teamwork. In a recent survey, 36 percent of U.S. teachers reported seeing time [...]
Is it “mumbo-jumbo for ISTEP preparation” — or a “clever” approach to getting ready for high-stakes tests? Last week’s post on a Bloomington charter school’s practice of teaching a short unit on standardized testing as a literary genre garnered quite a few varied reactions. (If you missed the post, check it out here.) A shortened radio version [...]
Poetry, fiction, memoir… and standardized testing? An Indiana charter school teaches testing as a literary genre, asking ‘why teach to the exam when you can teach about the exam?’
For one day a week, students in Troy Cockrum’s middle school English classes will get free reign. “I gave them no rubric, no accountability lecture, nothing,” he blogs. “Just said that I’m hoping to get some creative and unique projects from them.”
Google’s newly-launched social network Google+ has been around for two weeks and it’s already getting a +1 from some educators. It got our edu-techie juices flowing when our Argo-blog cousins at KQED’s MindShift did this write-up on the potential for Google’s newly-launched social network Google+ to change social networking’s role in education:
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