Good teachers - Teachers are the heart and soul of education. We cannot meet student needs without good teachers.
Building effective teams - a leader needs to build effective teams that work together to improve student learning. Without these, schools do not operate to their potential. When administrators and teachers work in isolation of each other, no growth can occur.
Poor Salary Scale - Education is not supported by community as a profession to work toward. It is not attracting people. Private business is more attractive to those entering college.
Government interference in what happens in schools. Although intentions are good, government officials who make the decisions have no idea what happens in schools on a day to day basis.This interferes with the vision and creative thinking needed as a leader. School leaders become buried with directives and paperwork.
Bringing education into the 21st Century.
There are huge demands being placed onto schools. Schools need help in seeing and balancing the expectation of the job. What exactly are schools expected to do in the curruculum, social, and behavior aspects of the school. What are socieities expectations of a HS grad?
Information Technology
Need the funding for hardware and the professional development for the staff to keep up with curriculum.
Staff struggling to keep up with new curriculum and programs that engage students in the learning process.
Leaders are frequently off campus with too many meetings to attend (e.g. various committees, steering groups), and no real help or time to get the discussed and needed changes embedded in the culture of the school.
There is a huge time conflict.
Need to adapt to instruction with information technology being dominant. This is where the students live, we need to meet them there.
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Disparities other than money
I borrowed this blog from a teen-ager on line. I think she pretty much hits the nail on the head regarding the disparities we have with these kids that cause a generation gap. All the points we may disagree with that kids take part in are explaned quite well by Sarah. See if you agree. We as educational leaders need to talk to kids like Sarah, or simply read their blogs. By doing this I think we can get rid of a lot of misconceptions and understand these students a lot better.
Meet Net Gen- Chapter One
Posted by Sarah_CHS on February 18, 2009 at 4:56pm
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I was shocked at the way that intelligent adults see us. It shows that they don’t comprehend the way our minds work. I was honestly not expecting it to be so harsh. I think that some of it may be true, but it doesn’t seem so bad to us. And the rest of it is completely untrue. For instance, in the second point where we are called “sceenagers,” to us talking to people online is socializing. We are able to meet and get to know people that we might never meet in person. This communication helps us understand and keep an open mind to other people. This first point also irritated me. It’s not that we are dumb and can’t focus. We can multitask, which is a skill that other generations don’t have. And as for stealing, wouldn’t passing a book around friends be the same as sharing music with friends? Either way only one person is paying for it, and everyone gets to enjoy it. The other point that I felt was very untrue was that we don’t care. I personally do care. I have a strong set of values and don’t see what is wrong with caring about my friends. They are like family to me. the worst part about this is that it says that we don’t vote. If I remember the stats correctly, then we have been voting. There was a large increase of young voters in this year last presidential election. However, the points on being shameless, violent and bullying are more accurate. Instead of being shameless, I think that we just have different standards. We see it as letting people know who we are, as well as getting to know others. I can understand the worry about what we post on the internet. I personally don’t put anything up that I think will negatively affect me later in life. This generation gap is just too extreme for complete understanding of one-another. All we can do is accept that we are different.
Tags: netgen_stereotypes
Meet Net Gen- Chapter One
Posted by Sarah_CHS on February 18, 2009 at 4:56pm
View Sarah_CHS's blog
I was shocked at the way that intelligent adults see us. It shows that they don’t comprehend the way our minds work. I was honestly not expecting it to be so harsh. I think that some of it may be true, but it doesn’t seem so bad to us. And the rest of it is completely untrue. For instance, in the second point where we are called “sceenagers,” to us talking to people online is socializing. We are able to meet and get to know people that we might never meet in person. This communication helps us understand and keep an open mind to other people. This first point also irritated me. It’s not that we are dumb and can’t focus. We can multitask, which is a skill that other generations don’t have. And as for stealing, wouldn’t passing a book around friends be the same as sharing music with friends? Either way only one person is paying for it, and everyone gets to enjoy it. The other point that I felt was very untrue was that we don’t care. I personally do care. I have a strong set of values and don’t see what is wrong with caring about my friends. They are like family to me. the worst part about this is that it says that we don’t vote. If I remember the stats correctly, then we have been voting. There was a large increase of young voters in this year last presidential election. However, the points on being shameless, violent and bullying are more accurate. Instead of being shameless, I think that we just have different standards. We see it as letting people know who we are, as well as getting to know others. I can understand the worry about what we post on the internet. I personally don’t put anything up that I think will negatively affect me later in life. This generation gap is just too extreme for complete understanding of one-another. All we can do is accept that we are different.
Tags: netgen_stereotypes
Supporting todays diverse learners
21st Century Education
http://www.edutopia.org/digital-generation-parents-video
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Parents discuss how their children are digital natives, how we stand in the way of our childrens learnimg because we are afraid of the unknown. We should sit down beside them and learn more about the computer.
Digital Generation Parents Share Their Wisdom
http://www.edutopia.org/digital-generation-parents-video
Digital Generation Parents Share Their Wisdom
1. Do you agree that parents just need to get out of the way for their kids?
2. How can "home drive school?"
3. How do you engage the whole family in digital media?
4. How do you live in the moment with kids to support their current interests?
http://www.edutopia.org/digital-generation-parents-video
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Parents discuss how their children are digital natives, how we stand in the way of our childrens learnimg because we are afraid of the unknown. We should sit down beside them and learn more about the computer.
Digital Generation Parents Share Their Wisdom
http://www.edutopia.org/digital-generation-parents-video
Digital Generation Parents Share Their Wisdom
1. Do you agree that parents just need to get out of the way for their kids?
2. How can "home drive school?"
3. How do you engage the whole family in digital media?
4. How do you live in the moment with kids to support their current interests?
major shifts that should occur in education.
A 21st Century Education
In todays educational world, we have students on an assembly line; open their heads, pour in knowledge and test them to make sure we covered the material; not that they learned, but that we covered the material from A-Z. In this clip, Doug McCurry shows why we need to put the high expectations back into learning through relationships and actual caring that the students are engaged and have real life experiences with the knowledge. Change is inevitable, yet it does matter have we preceive it and embrace it to enhance student learning and social growth.
Doug McCurry
The Success of Achievement First
In this film, Doug McCurry describes the ingredients that make Achievement First's schools work: excellent teachers, high expectations, school choice, and a school culture that makes learning possible.
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» More about Doug McCurry
In todays educational world, we have students on an assembly line; open their heads, pour in knowledge and test them to make sure we covered the material; not that they learned, but that we covered the material from A-Z. In this clip, Doug McCurry shows why we need to put the high expectations back into learning through relationships and actual caring that the students are engaged and have real life experiences with the knowledge. Change is inevitable, yet it does matter have we preceive it and embrace it to enhance student learning and social growth.
Doug McCurry
The Success of Achievement First
In this film, Doug McCurry describes the ingredients that make Achievement First's schools work: excellent teachers, high expectations, school choice, and a school culture that makes learning possible.
» View Video
» Download Video
» More about Doug McCurry
Saturday, November 7, 2009
How do/can they do it???
2+2=4 cómo usted determina esto está alineándose los nubers en una fila, hace señales al lado de ellas y las cuenta para arriba. Isn' fácil; ¿t él?
2+2=4 как вы определяете это путем выравнивать вверх nubers в рядке, делает тикания около их и подсчитывает их вверх. Легкое isn' t оно?
당신이 이것을 결정하는 방법 2+2=4는 nubers를 연속적으로 일렬로 늘어서서 이고, 그(것)들의 옆에 진드기를 만들고 위로 센다. 쉬운 isn' t 그것?
2+2=4, wie Sie dieses feststellen, ist, indem es die nubers in einer Reihe ausrichtet, bildet Häckchen neben ihnen und zählt sie oben. Einfaches isn' t es?
2+2=4 how you determine this is by lining up the numbers in a row, make ticks beside them and count them up. Easy isn't it?
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¡Pare lo que usted está haciendo y funcione para la puerta, el edificio se arde!
Остановите чего вы делаете и побегите для двери, здание на пожаре!
당신이 문을 위해 하고 그리고 달리는 무엇을 정지는 불에, 건물 있다!
Stoppen Sie, was Sie tun und laufen Sie für die Tür, das Gebäude ist auf Feuer!
Stop what you are doing and head for the nearest door, the building is on fire!
What was that like? Can you imagine being in the US from Mexico, Russia, Korea, or Germany for two years and needing to take an exam in English in order to graduate from a high school? I don't know about you but I would have one heck of a time. We as educators need to educate our legislators on how difficult this is. The passing rate for the ELL students at my high school is causing great kids to consider dropping out of school. We need to do something.
2+2=4 как вы определяете это путем выравнивать вверх nubers в рядке, делает тикания около их и подсчитывает их вверх. Легкое isn' t оно?
당신이 이것을 결정하는 방법 2+2=4는 nubers를 연속적으로 일렬로 늘어서서 이고, 그(것)들의 옆에 진드기를 만들고 위로 센다. 쉬운 isn' t 그것?
2+2=4, wie Sie dieses feststellen, ist, indem es die nubers in einer Reihe ausrichtet, bildet Häckchen neben ihnen und zählt sie oben. Einfaches isn' t es?
2+2=4 how you determine this is by lining up the numbers in a row, make ticks beside them and count them up. Easy isn't it?
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¡Pare lo que usted está haciendo y funcione para la puerta, el edificio se arde!
Остановите чего вы делаете и побегите для двери, здание на пожаре!
당신이 문을 위해 하고 그리고 달리는 무엇을 정지는 불에, 건물 있다!
Stoppen Sie, was Sie tun und laufen Sie für die Tür, das Gebäude ist auf Feuer!
Stop what you are doing and head for the nearest door, the building is on fire!
What was that like? Can you imagine being in the US from Mexico, Russia, Korea, or Germany for two years and needing to take an exam in English in order to graduate from a high school? I don't know about you but I would have one heck of a time. We as educators need to educate our legislators on how difficult this is. The passing rate for the ELL students at my high school is causing great kids to consider dropping out of school. We need to do something.
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