Eduspeak

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The following resources are helpful to parents and teachers:

1. Book: Supporting Successful Transition from Primary to Secondary School by Tina Rae (2014)
2. Book: Book: Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv (2008)
3. Book: Digital Tools for Teaching: 30 E-tools for Collaborating, Creating, and Publishing across the Curriculum by Steve Johnson (2013)
4. DVD video: Canadian Popular Music in the '60's, '70's & '80's by EMI Music Canada (2012)
5. DVD video: Canada: A People's History produced by Mark Starowicz (2001).
6. Book: Fire in the Bones: Bill Mason and the Canadian Canoeing Tradition by James Raffan (1999)

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Eduspeak

Eduspeak

"Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession." - Kingman Brewster (1919-1988), diplomat and president of Yale University

"One of the reasons educrats use language like this is because, whether they're conscious of it or not, it gives them power over us mere "lay" parents. It has actually worked to intimidate me! he nonsense that shows up in professional journal articles - may have written some of it myself. It's saddening to think of all the parents who are valiantly struggling to do their best by their kids inside the school system who are faced with educrats who use this kind of power play to keep everyone, kids and parents, under control." - Lonnie Turbee

Brain Based Theories

• Brains.Org Practical Classroom applications of current brain research. This site provides a practical link between current psychological research and education.
• Jensen Learning Corporation This site is maintained by Eric Jensen as a resource for Brain Based Theories.

Differentiated Instruction

• Differentiated Instruction: An Annotated Bibliography from OSSTF.

EduGains

EduGAINS is an ever-changing site where all educators involved in Grades K-12 teaching and learning can access a wealth of resources and information to enhance their own learning, and the learning of others.

Flipped learning

a study in flipped learning

Motivating Students

• Tips for Motivating Students from Inspiring Teachers Publishing, Inc.

Multiple Intelligences and Learning Styles

• http://www.funderstanding.com/cognitive_coaching.cfm
• http://www.funderstanding.com/theories.cfm
• http://www.funderstanding.com/learning_styles.cfm
• http://its.gcsnc.com/act/strategies/
• http://www.bham.wednet.edu/studentgal/onlineresearch/oldonline/mod9.htm

Ontario Educational Resource Bank

• Ontario Educational Resource Bank You may search for the resources by grade, subject/course, strand, overall expectations, and/or keywords.

PBL

With PBL (Problem-based learning), your teacher presents you with a problem, not lectures or assignments or exercises. Since you are not handed "content", your learning becomes active in the sense that you discover and work with content that you determine to be necessary to solve the problem. Definition #1, Definition #2, Definition #3,

Professional Learning Cycle

• Professional Learning Cycle Plan, Act, Observe, Reflect - is a process that is used by teams of educators for professional learning. Learning occurs during and between team meetings when educators share practice, examine student work and/or access opportunities to build their instructional skills and knowledge-base.

References for eduspeak

• Education Terms Defined via the Washington Post
• EDUSPEAK" AND THE GIFTED by the Association for Bright Children Peel Chapter
• Eduspeak: Learning the Lingo
• Edu-speak, the dictionary by Amy Leinen.
• Translating eduspeak:What they mean when they say from the Economist Feb 19th 2009
• Education Terminology Every Parent Must Understand
• Education Buzzwords: Image and Reality
• Translating Educational Jargon by Phillip Paeltz
• Eduspeak Gives Me a Headache by Michael Smith Jun 3rd, 2010
• Is Unschooling Different from Homeschooling?

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