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by Caped Crusader
Nov 22, 2006
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by Jessica Masters
Nov 29, 2006
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Dear Teachers,
If you teach students in grades 4-9, we invite you to
participate in a special pilot study for a federally funded
research project, the e-Learning for Educators Initiative.
The Technology and Assessment Study Collaborative (inTASC)
at Boston College is conducting a pilot study t...See More/blockquote>
Dear Teachers,
If you teach students in grades 4-9, we invite you to
participate in a special pilot study for a federally funded
research project, the e-Learning for Educators Initiative.
The Technology and Assessment Study Collaborative (inTASC)
at Boston College is conducting a pilot study to examine
the characteristics of test items that will be used in the
large-scale research project and you may be eligible to
participate in this pilot study. You will only need to
complete an online survey, and administer two online tests
to your students, and you will receive a $100 stipend.
This study will conclude on Friday, December 8, so sign up
now and participate! We need your help to collect data for
this important study! For more information, or to sign up,
please visit [link removed]
ELIGIBILITY
In order to be eligible you must:
• Be a teacher in grades 4- 9
• NOT be a teacher in the following list of states.
(The larger research study will occur in these states and
thus these teachers cannot participate in the pilot study).
o Alabama
o Delaware
o Kentucky
o Mississippi
o Missouri
o New Hampshire
o Pennsylvania
o West Virginia
• Be able to administer an online test to a class of
students.
COMPENSATION
All teachers who participate will receive instant feedback
about student performance. You can use this feedback to
assess your students and inform future instruction.
In addition to the feedback about your students’
performance, the first 140 teachers to complete the
requirements (10 in each sub-content area) will receive
$100 for each sub-content area. Completing the
requirements means taking the teacher survey and
administering both tests to your students.
REQUIREMENTS
You can participate in multiple sub-content areas (listed
below). Participation requirements are:
• You will take one online survey, estimated to take
30-45 minutes to complete.
• You will administer two online tests to a class of
at least 15 students. Each test takes one full class
period; the total amount of participation time needed from
your students is two class periods. You will need Flash v8
or higher to administer the students tests. This software
is free for download at
[link removed]
These requirements are for each sub-content area chosen.
The sub-content areas are:
4th and 5th Grade ELA sub-content areas:
• Vocabulary
• Reading Comprehension: Narrative
• Reading Comprehension: Expository
• Writing
5th and 6th Grade Math sub-content areas:
• Fractions
• Algebraic Thinking
• Measurement
7th and 8th Grade ELA sub-content areas:
• Vocabulary
• Reading Comprehension: Narrative
• Reading Comprehension: Expository
• Writing
8th and 9th Grade Math sub-content areas:
• Proportional Reasoning
• Functions
• Geometric Measurement
For more information about the study and to sign up, please
visit:
[link removed]!”
Once you sign up, you will be directed to the Teacher
Management Page. Here you can download the files “Pilot
Instructions” and “Stipend and Contact Information” for
further details.
You can also contact the researchers at efe.[email removed].
by Does your state offer similar rights?
Dec 22, 2006
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Every teacher is entitled to a duty-free lunch and
planning and preparation time. Except for a few minor
changes made in the 1995 rewrite of the Texas Education
Code, the statutes have essentially remained the same.
Duty-free lunch – Texas Education Code, Sec. 21.405
By law, each classroom teacher ...See More/blockquote>
Every teacher is entitled to a duty-free lunch and
planning and preparation time. Except for a few minor
changes made in the 1995 rewrite of the Texas Education
Code, the statutes have essentially remained the same.
Duty-free lunch – Texas Education Code, Sec. 21.405
By law, each classroom teacher and full-time librarian
gets at least a 30-minute lunch period “free from all
duties and responsibilities connected with the instruction
and supervision of students.” According to a Texas
Attorney General opinion, the term “duty” would include a
directive that teachers remain on campus during lunch,
because it would relate to student instruction or
supervision. Districts cannot require teachers to stay on
campus during their 30-minute lunch even if the campus
is “closed” for students.
The law provides exceptions—personnel shortages, extreme
economic conditions or unavoidable/unforeseen
circumstances—which give districts the right to require
teachers to supervise lunches, but not more than one time
per week.
The rules adopted by the commissioner of education set the
bar very high before a district can assign a teacher to
lunch duty. Scheduling problems do not create unforeseen
circumstances. They exist when an epidemic, illness, or
natural or man-made disaster leaves no one available to do
the duty. An extreme economic condition exists when hiring
a person to supervise lunch would cause the district to
raise taxes to the extent that the district might face a
tax roll-back election. A personnel shortage exists only
after all available nonteaching personnel—superintendent
and business manager included—have been assigned to the
duty and the district has diligently recruited community
volunteers to help.
Planning and preparation time – Texas Education Code, Sec.
21.404
The law entitles every teacher to planning and preparation
time, during which the district can require the teacher to
engage in no activity other than parent-teacher
conferences, evaluating student work, and planning.
Teachers must have at least 450 minutes of planning time
every two weeks in increments of not less than 45 minutes
within the instructional day.
Examples:
A teacher could have five 90-minute conference periods
within a two-week period, instead of a 45-minute
conference period each day. A district can provide 50-
minute blocks of planning time daily, and exceed the
minimum requirement, but it could not provide 50 minutes
one day and 40 minutes the next.
A district cannot schedule a 7:45 a.m.-3:15 p.m.
instructional day, and then give teachers 3:15 p.m.-4:00
p.m. to plan after the students leave.
Conference period cases often involve requirements for
group planning or staff development during planning
periods. According to the commissioner of education, if a
district gives teachers no more than the statutory minimum
planning time, the district cannot ask teachers to engage
in group-planning during one of those planning periods.
Example:
A district that schedules 50-minute planning periods every
day could ask teachers to plan as a group one day every
two weeks, but the district could not take one planning
period for group planning and another for staff
development.
by United States Institute of Peace
Dec 27, 2006
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The United States Institute of Peace announces the National
Peace Essay Contest for students in grades 9-12. For the
2006-07 contest, student's essay must examine the issue of
youth and violent conflicts. First-place winners from each
state receive $1,000 college scholarships and compete for
national awards o...See More/blockquote>
The United States Institute of Peace announces the National
Peace Essay Contest for students in grades 9-12. For the
2006-07 contest, student's essay must examine the issue of
youth and violent conflicts. First-place winners from each
state receive $1,000 college scholarships and compete for
national awards of $2,500 to $10,000. National award
amounts include state awards. First-place state winners
also are invited to attend an expenses-paid awards program
in Washington, D.C., in June. To obtain guidelines for
entering the contest, e-mail [email removed]].
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by Crag Hill
Mar 14, 2007
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InLand Needs Your Writing
Call for Copy: Boys and Reading: How Do We Get Boys to
Wrestle with the Pages?
A generation ago educators identified an achievement gap
between boys and girls in math and science. Boys were
taking and excelling in more science and math classes than
girls. With dedi...See More/blockquote>
InLand Needs Your Writing
Call for Copy: Boys and Reading: How Do We Get Boys to
Wrestle with the Pages?
A generation ago educators identified an achievement gap
between boys and girls in math and science. Boys were
taking and excelling in more science and math classes than
girls. With dedication, commitments across districts and
states, careful revision of curriculum, the gap closed. Now
when you peek in a calculus class you are apt to see as
many girls as boys.
Today, schools have another achievement gap educators must
address, one that has undermined English classes for
decades: Boys lag behind girls as readers. In Idaho, they
score lower than girls in reading and language usage on the
ISAT starting in the third grade and they never catch up.
In addition to standardized test data, English teachers
have tons of anecdotal evidence of boys’ attitudes toward
the study of literature: Boys are less likely to enjoy
reading or identify themselves as committed English
students than girls, attitudes that often affect their
behavior in the classroom. How can we turn this around? How
can we get boys to wrestle, to tussle, to tumble, with
pages of novels and biographies and essays and poems?
Some possible topics include:
What are books that your boys, at home and/or in the
classroom, read voraciously? What are books that get
squirming boys to slow down in their chairs? What books do
boys recommend to other boys? Mini-reviews welcome!
What strategies have worked for you to get boys reading
more than they have before? Over the course of a semester,
how do you encourage boys not only to read their favorite
writers/genres, but get them to try new writers? How do you
gets boys talking about books with other boys?
If you were to write books for boys, what would your story
be? How would you approach writing a book geared toward
male readers?
Besides books, what else do your boys read? What topics do
your boys read and talk about?
Send essays, classroom strategies, stories of success and
struggle, poems, surveys of your male readers, interviews…
Send articles to Crag Hill at 1111 E. Fifth St., or by e-
mail at [email removed]
Deadline: March 30, 2007
InLand is a magazine that serves the interests of
approximately 350 K-College Language Arts educators in
Idaho and Eastern Washington. Readers love articles that
enlarge their understanding of a topic.
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How is the the job market for teachers in the Post
Falls/Hayden areas? 7 years teaching experience with ESL...
ANYONE??
/blockquote>
I have started a teacher discussion group. I am sending
you a special invitation to join and give your input as a
teacher. You are the key to the success of the group. I
will probably close this board if not many join.
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