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Teacher Research and the Need for Experimentation to Drive Policy in Education

by Mark November 20, 2011 instruction

One of the things I do is work with the Education Study Group, an organization that supports teachers doing cheap and fast experimentation and data gathering on what works and doesn’t in their classroom and education as a whole. This video explains the rational, from a Fortune 500 perspective: Data should not be about Teacher [...]

How to make eBay RSS Feeds

by Mark August 13, 2010 research

This assumes you already know what RSS is … if you don’t, this video is a good introduction. Step 1 Do an eBay search as you normally would. Step 2 Scroll to the bottom of the results page, and look for the orange “RSS” button. Step 3 Click the button to add the feed to [...]

Teacher Productivity Vs. Teacher Effectiveness

by Mark December 4, 2009 behavior

So going forward I’m going to focus on these two concepts: “teacher productivity” and “teacher effectiveness.” I’m going to list the tools, means and ways the productivity experts have come up with over the years and how they can be applied to the administrative, troublesome and ancillary aspects of our jobs as teachers. I’m going to list and think about all the ways teachers can become more effective at their craft–the art of teaching. And I’m going to try not to mix up the two.

Inserting The Editorial Process into Clairvoy

by Mark May 30, 2009 cooperative_learning

Clairvoy (now Traditional Clairvoy) started out as a blog with five teachers giving advise to other teachers who submitted questions. We still get messages from teachers all over the world. We’ve grown to a site with blogs, wikis, forums, articles and file sharing. More than 1000 pages of different content and nearly 800 registered users. We have a new site for teacher research called Education Study Group. However, most of our visitors don’t sign in. People just read.

Best Tracking of Student Data (for Behavior Plans or Anything) for the Busy Teacher

by Mark May 30, 2009 assessment

If you need to collect data (from parents, from colleagues, from students) or inventory a lot of little things, or do the data collection for a behavior intervention plan you are trying to prove works to parents and the administration, Google Docs provides one easy way.