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Author Archives: stefhite
Our Own Personal Paris
We spent yesterday afternoon with Antoinette of Paris Personalized. If you find yourself fortunate enough to visit the city of light, make sure you take one of her tours. They range from food-based, to historical, to musical … Antoinette is a great story-teller and will introduce you to places in Paris that you never would have known about.
Quality Learning today in Germany
Fans of Stripes will get this reference right away … (and if you don’t know that important piece of US culture, watch this classic clip).
Here are Mr. Hite and Ms. Callaghan guest lecturing in a English class at the Heinrich-Suso Gymnasium today. Education at its best!
Teachers Matter
Not much else to say except #BeATeacher
FIT Teaching … the book!
(Warning: shameless self-promotion ahead )
Very excited that the book I’ve co-authored with Doug Fisher (@DFISHERSDSU) and Nancy Frey (@NancyFrey) is available here!
FIT Teaching is a field-tested and experience-honed process that captures the essentials of the best educational environments and empowers teachers to adapt the most effective planning, instructional, and assessment practices to their particular context. We highlight teachers as leaders who work collaboratively to support their students.
This should be on rest rooms everywhere …
Google victims
6th grader in a social studies class learning about Ancient China, on completing his 24/7 report on the Tang Dynasty (students present on a topic for 24 seconds, then summarize with a 7 word sentence, based on the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony): They developed a great orange breakfast drink.
Teacher’s response: Have a seat, we need to talk about how to use Google.
How do we support students to think when they’re searching on the Internet?
#ASCD16
Apart from the energy of thousands of educators seeking to learn and lead in their practice, I especially appreciated those who attended our session on #FITTeaching. Check out these amazing doodles / visual notes created by @jgough and @conniehamilton. I’m both appreciative and envious of their skill!
My new favorite TED talk is about … nothing
Check out Will Stephen’s TED talk in which he does a fantastic job of talking about absolutely nothing. His talk captures the rhythm and pattern of a classic TED presentation — suggesting, perhaps, that this format is ready for retirement? Or at least an update?
Free textbooks?
Emblazoning their social media posts with #GoOpen, teachers, principals, advocacy organizations and trade groups rallied behind what the department described as “high-quality, openly-licensed educational resources” for K-12 schools. Worth noting: These books and materials are free.
“Openly licensed educational resources can increase equity by providing all students, regardless of zip code, access to high quality learning materials that have the most up-to-date and relevant content,” acting U.S. Education Secretary John King said in a statement.
Read the article here.