CFF+Ideas

Research Ideas From Year 2 CFF

Discussion Ideas from CFF Tuesday 12-16

the vegetables of learning, does D.I. allow them to choose chocolate for all of their meals? Project Based Learning - How do I know they are learning? Teacher as facilitator, how do I maintain class control and focus? Time - D.I. AND PSSA is it possible? Student psychology of DI, is it fair "why can't I do that?" Assessment, no pass no move? how DI fairly assess? Reward system back? Time to plan and develop DI? What is the Education answer? we try this and that and never settle on 1 answer? A and C at LHS? Fixed mindset vs. grpwth mindset? Grade levels vs. achievement levels? Is the building DI in itself? how far micro do we DI? Class size, is smaller better? Interest based learning, vo-tech? Do we teach subjects or kids?

=CFF 2, Day 4, 1-27-09= Here is a white paper worthy of discussion: I highlighted key points to shorten the read. Feel free to read as much as you want. Pages 1 and 2 are intro, the paper is from page 3-28, then its all references etc. So it is a 25 page read. Lots of food for thought on change! At CFF 1 last week Bill David talked a lot about the system. Is it broken or broke down? Is it fixable? Is it possible to reinvent? What is our role as teachers? How do we proceed? What global education topics interst you most? Block schedule, i-block, year round school, longer school days, let's start a list and each explore a topic for our unit 4 work in this course. Who knows? Maybe we will find that we are just doin fine!!