Posts belonging to Category Education Reform
Posted by Chip on August 10, 2010
It’s nearing the beginning of another academic year when the educational accountability machine starts cranking out new sets of data — data to be sorted and scrubbed by so-called professional learning communities who will disaggregate the information to identify deficits and plan interventions to be responded to and evaluated in the continuous improvement cycle of [...]
Categories: Building Relationships with Children, Developmental Education, Developmentally Appropriate Curriculum, Education Reform, The School Year |
Tags: building relationships with children, data-driven decision making, first day of school, knowing the children we teach | 
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Posted by Chip on August 2, 2010
Commenting on my last post on 21st Century Skills, Tracy wrote:
“Every time I read, hear, or think about 21st Century Skills I automatically connect to the Responsive Classroom® approach. The core skills of the approach are at the very heart of 21st Century Skills. Those of us already using RC do not think of 21st [...]
Categories: Building Community, Education Reform, The Responsive Classroom® approach |
Tags: 21st century skills, Building Community, Education Reform, learning communities, the Responsive Classroom approach | 4 Comments »
Posted by Chip on July 16, 2010
A great emphasis in education these days is the call for “21st Century Skills” to be taught in PreK–12 education. The purpose of this emphasis is to bring curriculum and instruction into alignment and relevance with the environment today’s students will live and work in as adults.
There is no universal agreement on what the list [...]
Categories: Developmental Education, Developmentally Appropriate Curriculum, Education Reform |
Tags: 21st century skills, Education Reform, social-emotional development, social-emotional learning | 5 Comments »
Posted by Chip on July 8, 2010
A number of studies in early childhood classrooms have documented that “self-regulation predicts academic performance in first grade, over and above cognitive skills and family background.” (Examples of these studies: Blair, 2002; Farran, 2010; McClelland, M. M.; Piccinin, A., & Stallings, M. C., 2010; Raver & Knitzer, 2002).
Educators are increasingly becoming aware that social and [...]
Categories: Developmental Education, Education Reform, Managing Behavior, Social and Emotional Learning, The Responsive Classroom® approach |
Tags: bullying, Developmental Designs, Developmental Education, Developmental Studies Center, Managing Behavior, Open Circle, Responsive Classroom approach, social-emotional development, social-emotional learning, Tools of the Mind | 2 Comments »
Posted by Chip on March 23, 2010
You have until April 2nd to comment on the Common Core Standards in Reading and Math.
April 1st might be an appropriate day. According to Ed Week, over 2,000 people have already taken the time to go to www.corestandards.org and navigate the comment section to record comments. Your voice matters, even if changes to the K-3 level at [...]
Categories: Developmental Education, Developmental Needs, Developmentally Appropriate Curriculum, Education Reform |
Tags: Alliance for Childhood, Common Core standards, Developmental Education, Developmental Needs, Developmentally Appropriate Curriculum, early childhood education, Education Reform, kiderg, social-emotional development, U.S. education policy | Post a Comment »
Posted by Chip on March 4, 2010
National “Common Core,” grade by grade, K–12 educational standards are being rapidly finalized across the political landscape as they pass through the doors of governor’s offices and state houses even before the miniscule window of opportunity for public comment closes. Kentucky has already become the first state to endorse such standards publicly in a special [...]
Categories: Developmental Education, Developmental Needs, Developmentally Appropriate Curriculum, Education Reform |
Tags: Alliance for Childhood, Common Core standards, Developmental Education, Developmental Needs, Developmentally Appropriate Curriculum, early childhood education, Education Reform, kindergarten, social-emotional development, U.S. education policy | 1 Comment »
Posted by Chip on January 8, 2010
If you work in the field of education, you may share the same troubling mental image I have as we enter the new decade and ponder the future of our children.
I see the beginning of a national marathon with teachers, administrators and state education officials all crowded at the starting line. There’s a giant banner [...]
Categories: Education Reform |
Tags: achievement gap, Arne Duncan, Great Society, improving education, Race to the Top, U.S. education policy, Whitney Young, Yong Zhao | 4 Comments »
Posted by Chip on January 24, 2008
If you’re looking for a riveting book about education that reads like a novel and speaks with fire in the belly about the gross injustice in our education system for children disenfranchised by poverty and/or race, I highly recommend the 354 page-turner by Susan Eaton, The Children in Room E4: American Education on Trial.
This extraordinarily [...]
Categories: Books, Education Reform |
Tags: Education Reform, Susan Eaton, The Children in Room E4 | 2 Comments »
Posted by Chip on January 15, 2008
William Crain, professor of psychology at the City College of New York, graciously contributed the foreword to the 3rd edition of my book Yardsticks: Children in the Classroom, Ages 4-14 (NEFC, 2007).
I have long been an admirer of Dr. Crain’s major textbook in child development, Theories of Development which I certainly recommend.
Here I’d like to [...]
Categories: Books, Developmental Education, Developmental Needs, Developmentally Appropriate Curriculum, Education Reform, Importance of Play |
Tags: Developmental Education, developmental teaching, Reclaiming Childhood: Letting Children Be Children in Our Achievement-Oriented Society., Theories of Development, William Crain, Yardsticks | Post a Comment »
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