Students once dropped through the cracks using a bell-shaped curve mentality are now omnipresent. For teachers to smugly give those students Ds and Fs no longer works.
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17. Teaching Begins within the New Learning Infrastructure
Teaching is challenging because it involves the constant barrage of decision-making responsibilities. Analyses of a teaching day often reveal dozens of decisions a teacher makes every minute.
16. Convergent Thinking and Solidarity in the New Learning Infrastructure
How can quality student learning defy easy definition? Because every student is different. An evolving human being is not something static or measurable at any given moment.
15. The Welcoming Organization and the Novice Professional Teacher
Mary Chapman finds what appears to be a unique school district. As the story unfolds, Mary’s initial perceptions turn out to be accurate. The depressing aspect was that she rejected 90% of the districts reviewed via webpages. Some of them emphasized only basic organizational structures. They gave lip service to their mission using a sentenceContinue reading “15. The Welcoming Organization and the Novice Professional Teacher”
14. School District Organization, Leadership and New Teacher Professionalism
Chasms have opened because schools were and still are supported by a fragile infrastructure.
13. Translating Knowledge and Beliefs into Real Public-School Settings and Actions
Mastery means a student is fundamentally changed as evidenced by differences in perspective and behavior. It is not achieved quickly but requires soak time and reflection.
12. Overcoming Feelings of Inadequacy Through the Pursuit of Quality Learning
Intuition teachers use to solve a student learning problem is psychologically intricate and emotionally sensitive.
11. The Pursuit of Quality Learning Requires a Different Kind of Teaching Environment
American teachers are being ground down by overbearing bureaucracies that have reduced them to being pawns in the political and regulatory system.
10. Teacher Accountability as a Function of Academic Conviction, Depth and Purpose
The most challenging part is becoming more professionally assertive than I believed possible. To overcome my feelings of inadequacy and vulnerability in the face of change.
9. Curricular Precison: Tools and Skills in the New Learning Infrastructure
The unit outcome provides an overview of the complete intention for student learning. It connects all elements in ways that show they are contiguous and mutually necessary.
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