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| Good Teachers Get the Highest Evaluations Posted: 11 Dec 2010 05:47 AM PST Sometimes a study appears that makes you want to shout from the rooftops. That's how I feel about this recent one from the Gates Foundation, designed to evaluate what really makes a good teacher and reported on at length in the New York Times. What Gates has found is that students who rate their teachers highest not only tend to earn the highest grades but also do best on standardized tests. This reverses the cynical prejudice of the past that students rate their teachest highest when they get a good grade. That is, those teaches who grade easy get the best evaluations. No. No. It turns out that those students who rate their teachers highest tend to write the best evaluations--and do better on standardized tests. So the external measure suggests that the system works, not that it is being gamed. |
| Can A Device Really Help Us Pay Attention? Posted: 10 Dec 2010 02:02 PM PST It is one of those wonders of teaching to see one's own ideas take shape in dialogue with those that one, supposedly, is teaching. In my entire career, this is the first time I've seen "my" ideas materialized into a device. A lot of those ideas will be between two covers next summer, in Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn, coming out from Viking Press and, I see, already up on Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Now-You-See-Attention-Transform/dp/0670022829/ref=...) But it might be just as true to say that those ideas will also be embodied in a device, the Feedbacker, for which I did very little except, well, provide feedback. Where does one idea end and one device begin? |
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