Today, you should be relaxing and having some fun. Here is a good way to begin.
I plan to post good thoughts, silly, happy thoughts today.
That means I will not mention Little Hands, the Orange One. All day. (Unless it is absolutely necessary.)
So here goes.
W. James Popham is an international expert on educational assessment.
He has a great sense of humor.
In this video, he explains value-added assessment.
Sit back and enjoy!
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Funny. Hmmm… All the teachers in the video were women.
Here’s to happy thoughts:
Happy Holidays to all!!!
I don’t formally celebrate anything, but here’s to sentiment and nostalgia!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K-NF66QRrpE
Here’s one my students love!
This makes me laugh every time I see it. So ridiculous. The whole thing.
Gates = about $$$$$ and has no CLUE. Wish Gates would just GO AWAY forever. How about if he just walks around his huge mansion and get lost.
This speaks to the running and jumping model of good teaching (RAJ, some of you may recall this as the name given to the British domination of India). It’s premise is that teachers who measure student achievement will run and jump. The RT institute of logical reasoning has found that this is an absurdity.
In our study, when the gates was removed from the classroom, the running and jumping turned to collapsing on the floor in a pile of protoplasm due to the unsustainable activity described in the Gates study.
The RT study found that RAJ as a teaching method is more common to small rodents or Birds than humans.
I think Gates watched the Dead poet society, and thought, the most important message of the film was that teachers should jump on top of desks.
Whenever I watch Gates, I can’t help thinking that he probably was a hyperactive kid with a short attention span, and now he wants to change education to fit little Gates’ personality.
I bet he loves these “tight transition” videos
You are right, many of the techniques Dough Lemov advocates are either trivial or are used in dog training.
Like the heavy use of hand gestures he recommends
or the way he imagines cold calling
I think it’s completely appropriate to refer to Lemov’s book as the “Doug training book”.
Sorry, this is the link to cold calling