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posted by: Alana
| October 28, 2016, 12:08 pm
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We're getting down to the wire and early voting is already in full swing across the nation. There is so much at stake in this presidential race from education reform initiatives to school funding, yet thousands of Americans are still undecided heading into the 2016 elections. It's absolutely imperative that educators make well informed decisions at the voting booth this November.
AAE is proudly non-partisan, does not endorse candidates, or tell members how to vote. We do, however, urge each and every educator to brush up on the candidates' stances on education at the federal, state, AND local levels before heading to the polls.
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posted by: Alana
| October 26, 2016, 09:53 am
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Guest Post by Terry Pearson
During my teaching career in England, which has spanned more than 30 years, I have been very privileged to visit in excess of one thousand teachers, in a wide variety of settings, to observe them at work in their classrooms. Recently though, from what I have read about and even seen the way classroom observations are being deployed in schools and other education and training organizations across the globe, I suspect that America’s teachers are getting pretty used to a ‘litmus-paper’ approach to classroom observation. By this I mean an observer dips into a lesson, or watches a short video of a lesson, and uses a record of what was noticed to form a judgement as to where the teacher, or the lesson, sits within a pre-determined cluster of ratings or categories. I use this terminology as this method of observation can be likened to that of briefly dipping a piece of litmus paper into a solution and using the resulting color of the paper to determine the strength of acidity or alkalinity of the solution.
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posted by: Alana
| October 25, 2016, 02:55 pm
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This past week, the Department of Education's Office of Education Technology released a new policy brief that examines the best practices of implementing the use of technology into the classroom of young learners.
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posted by: Alana
| October 20, 2016, 10:20 am
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posted by: Alana
| October 17, 2016, 12:03 pm
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The world around us is rapidly changing. It looks dramatically different than it did thirty years ago, twenty years ago, or even ten years ago. Driving this change is the swiftness with which computer technology is growing and how much it is affecting our everyday life. More and more, computers are being integrated into everyday parts of our lives. There are now computers in our phones, our cars, and even our refrigerators!
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