Comments on: Where Do You Start the Shift? SOS Episode 15 http://lessonslearned.edublogs.org/2008/10/21/where-do-you-start-the-shift-sos-episode-15/ Teaching History in Morocco Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:12:56 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: David Carpenter http://lessonslearned.edublogs.org/2008/10/21/where-do-you-start-the-shift-sos-episode-15/comment-page-1/#comment-61 David Carpenter Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:09:59 +0000 http://lessonslearned.edublogs.org/?p=99#comment-61 Hi Paul, Yes, we definitely need the artifacts that demonstrate the learning strategies that work. I am pushing that we really put forth real classroom instructional strategies on SOS. And you hit on another discussion topic for SOS (you have a knack for it). How to demonstrate that shifted instruction makes a difference in learning? But as you infer, test scores often don't measure the learning we are aiming for. As for examples of strategies that work, here is a link to a "Best Practices" page of our Teacher Toolkit from HKIS where we would share and celebrate innovative ideas and strategies. Thanks for jogging my memory. :) Best Practices: http://dragonnet.hkis.edu.hk/up/toolkit/sec/bestpract.htm Hi Paul,

Yes, we definitely need the artifacts that demonstrate the learning strategies that work. I am pushing that we really put forth real classroom instructional strategies on SOS. And you hit on another discussion topic for SOS (you have a knack for it). How to demonstrate that shifted instruction makes a difference in learning? But as you infer, test scores often don’t measure the learning we are aiming for.

As for examples of strategies that work, here is a link to a “Best Practices” page of our Teacher Toolkit from HKIS where we would share and celebrate innovative ideas and strategies. Thanks for jogging my memory. :)

Best Practices: http://dragonnet.hkis.edu.hk/up/toolkit/sec/bestpract.htm

]]> By: Paul McMahon http://lessonslearned.edublogs.org/2008/10/21/where-do-you-start-the-shift-sos-episode-15/comment-page-1/#comment-60 Paul McMahon Wed, 22 Oct 2008 03:53:54 +0000 http://lessonslearned.edublogs.org/?p=99#comment-60 David, I really like the line "publically celebrating best practice instructional strategies and assessments". I feel that we need to do more of this. Often I have a lot of trouble showing teachers and leaders that the use of technologies that empower students to create, connect, share, network and communicate their ideas will result in the outcomes that they are looking for. Sometimes these teachers and leaders are quite shallowly looking for just improved test scores as that is what their stakeholders want from them. I feel we need some more of the "artifacts" that you refer to above. I really want to be able to point to these and show that we can produce more successful 21st century citizens by encouraging online sharing via blogs and wikis, creation of multimodal projects etc. I am interested to get references that link these strategies with successful outcomes. David, I really like the line “publically celebrating best practice instructional strategies and assessments”. I feel that we need to do more of this. Often I have a lot of trouble showing teachers and leaders that the use of technologies that empower students to create, connect, share, network and communicate their ideas will result in the outcomes that they are looking for. Sometimes these teachers and leaders are quite shallowly looking for just improved test scores as that is what their stakeholders want from them.
I feel we need some more of the “artifacts” that you refer to above. I really want to be able to point to these and show that we can produce more successful 21st century citizens by encouraging online sharing via blogs and wikis, creation of multimodal projects etc.
I am interested to get references that link these strategies with successful outcomes.

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