interessante Links, Informationen und Meinungen zu aktuellen Themen in Bereich Erziehung zusammengeführt.
interesting links, information and opinions on current issues in the field of learning, teaching and education
We had been waiting a long time for him, but here he is - as dark and rough as ever with a song from Blind Willie Johnson - the Soul of a Man
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Extracts from a John Hattie paper :
To put it simply: if you are a student in a developed country, your achievement probably depends much more on the classroom you go to than the school.
But every student should expect at least a year’s worth of progress for a year’s worth of input. If within-school variability is part of the problem it can easily be turned into a starting point for a bigger solution: teachers make the difference! If teachers work together and if teachers, school leaders and policy makers collaborate the result will be a school system based on collaborative expertise.
John Hattie is aware of the challenges and complexity of this solution but defines eight clear, data-informed tasks on how to move forward to improve students’ achievement, no matter from where they (and you) are starting from.
the full article can fe found here :
Pourquoi les gens qui s'aiment | Et moi j'te connais à peine | Pourquoi les gens qui s'aiment |
For his new study, John Hattie has put together a list of five popular education reform approaches that he calls distractions from the real problem. His argument is that an overemphasis on one or all of them creates a distraction from other, more critical, more effective ways to improve education. They might work, but the impact is only mediocre and the costs are high.
In a 2014 BBC interview available here , John Harrie from "Visible Learning " made some remarquable statements on what works in schools and what doesn't. This interview reinforces things you might expect, such as the importance of teachers, but also offers some surprises that might have parents and teachers questioning their priorities such as
“the impact of class size is tiny. In a league table of effects it’s about on hundred and fifth lace out of a hundred and thirty. And why is it so small, so small is because teachers don’t change how they teach when they go from class of thirty to fifteen !”
“Homework in primary school has an effect of around zero. In high school it’s larger. (…) ..... Five to ten minutes has the same effect of one hour to two hours. The worst thing you can do with homework is give kids projects. The best thing you can do is to reinforce something you’ve already learnt.”
“It doesn’t make a difference, No difference at all. Teachers think it’s easier for them and it may be but in terms of the effects of students, no. Now you’ve got to remember that a lot of students gain a tremendous amount of their learning from their other students in the class and variability is the way that you get more of that kind of learning from other students.”
A) An article by ecturer of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge, lists the benefits of bilingualism .
C) Bilingualism not only is an advantage during the develoment of the child, but it can also reduce Alzheimer. A research by Ellen Bialystok found out that on average, the bilinguals showed Alzheimer’s symptoms five or six years later than those who spoke only one language. This didn’t mean that the bilinguals didn’t have Alzheimer’s. It meant that as the disease took root in their brains, they were able to continue functioning at a higher level. They could cope with the disease for longer.
D ) On the contrary, some researcher are more skeptical on potential benefits from mastering two or more languages.
A paper by Kenneth Paap of San Francisco State University and colleagues argued that the evidence now suggests either no bilingual advantage exists, or it only occurs under certain as yet undetermined circumstances.
Some “skeptics” accuse “believers” of dismissing dissenting views and ignoring calls for higher standards. Believers accuse skeptics of selectively citing studies that support their argument, while not taking account the large body of research that supports the bilingual advantage.
Evy Woumans of Ghent University, Belgium, thinks the advantages of a second language may relate to how often a person switches between languages. She and her colleagues recently published a study comparing balanced bilinguals who switch many times a day, with interpreters who switch infrequently. They found that better language switching proficiency was associated with better executive functioning, but only for balanced bilinguals, not interpreters.
We all mostly think that mathematical proofs are based on letters and complicated symbols, this is a more recent development. A lot of proofs especially some of geometrical theorems can be based on colored graphic explanations. The book "The first six books of the Elements of Euclid" by Oliver Byrne is an example of this approach.
If a parallelogram and a triangle are upon the same base and between the same parallels, the parallelogram is double the triangleSi un parallélogramme et un triangle ont une base commune et si leurs sommets se situent sur des parallèles, alors l'aire du parallélogramme est le double de celle du triangle | |
If a straight line is divided into two any parts, the square of the whole line is equal to the squares of the parts together with twice the rectangle contained by the parts.Si un segment est divisé en deux parties, le carré de la longueur du segment initial est égal au carré des longueurs des deux parties auquel on ajoute le double du produit des deux longueursou(a+b)2 = a2 + b2 + 2 a . b | |
If two circles touch one another externally, the straight line joining their centres passes trough the point of contact.La droite joignant les centres de deux cercles tangents extérieurement passe le point de tangence des cercles |  |
Zutaten : Mozzarella, Mehl, Ei oder Milch, Semmelbrösel, Öl
Die (oder den ?) Mozzarella in Streifen schneiden, nicht zu dünn
zuerst in Mehl
dann in Milch oder Ei
und zum Schluss in den Semmelbrösseln wenden
(hier ein praktischer Tipp : Semmelbrösel in eine Tüte, Sticks rein, schütteln, fertig !!)
und fertig sind die Mozza-Sticks !
denn sonst verlaufen sie beim Braten im Fett ehe die Kruste rundherum fest ist !!
I've read recently Maria Popova's blog Brainpickings (which is an absolute must - at least once a week !!) and I stumbled on the article on songwriters and their inspiration, their sources, their struggeling, their sufferings and their cheers.
There are always meaningful songs for somebody. People are doing their courting, people are finding their wives, people are making babies, people are washing their dishes, people are getting through the day, with songs that we may find insignificant. But their significance is affirmed by others. There’s always someone affirming the significance of a song by taking a woman into his arms or by getting through the night. That’s what dignifies the song. Songs don’t dignify human activity. Human activity dignifies the song.
A poem by Leonard Cohen that clearly illustrates the above statement !!
I would like to add Cohen's consideration for the art of self-renewal, where he is more interested in the process itself rather than the outcome by exploring the deeper rewards and gratifications that have kept him going for half a century.
That's where i'm standing
at the average age where in the states you become CEO of large compagny
