Dr. Riegel’s Reading List
February 2017
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Teacher Resources
· Business is the most popular major on college campuses currently. But not all business majors are created equal in the job market. Research shows that general business and marketing majors are more likely to be unemployed or underemployed, and they also earn less than those in more math-focused business majors, such as finance and accounting. January 27, 20107. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-undergraduate-business-major-waste-time-money-jeff-selingo
· Gamification is the application of game-design elements and game principles in non-game contexts to improve user engagement, organizational productivity, learning, crowd sourcing, employee recruitment and more. Gamification is being used in some businesses as a means of encouraging more engaged learning and seeks to make learning fun, even when the learning content itself may not be. This article discusses five critical success factors that determine whether gamification will be successful or not. February 1, 2017. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/5-ways-gamification-sucked-me-smartened-up-katrina-read-
· Rich Czyz with 4 O’clock Faculty came up with a list of “10 Things I Wish Teachers Knew” to share with undergrad teaching candidates. February 1, 2017. https://fouroclockfaculty.com/2017/02/10-things-i-wish-teachers-knew/
· Dr. Robert Myers, child psychologist with UC Irvine School of Medicine, offers parents five tips for giving effective consequences to kids with ADHD. 2017. https://www.empoweringparents.com/article/effective-consequences-for-adhd-kids/
· Dominic Walliman has developed a “Map of Mathematics” and accompanying video to explain how everything in mathematics is connected. This map may help you find – or reclaim- a passion for all things numbers! February 7, 2017. http://www.sciencealert.com/this-mind-boggling-map-explains-how-everything-in-mathematics-is-connected-3
School Leader Resources
· Betsy DeVos, President Trump’s education secretary, revealed a lack of understanding of basic education issues, including IDEA, at a January 17 confirmation hearing. The letter she wrote to a senator after the hearing about the federal IDEA is very telling about her education priorities. January 28, 2017. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/01/28/the-telling-letter-betsy-devos-wrote-to-clarify-her-position-on-u-s-disabilities-law/?utm_term=.08f4fac7f7f9
· This article offers five ways administrators can make their classroom walk-through more powerful and improve educational practices. January 13, 2017. https://principalsdesk.org/2017/01/13/5-ways-to-make-classroom-walk-throughs-more-powerful/
· Whitney Johnson, author of the book Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work, has learned five lessons in talking with people who say that their success has been in part to disrupting the status quo of a business or industry via the disruption of their own personal career paths. December 20, 2016. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-disrupt-yourself-5-lessons-from-people-whove-done-whitney-johnson
· According to the Center for Public Education’s Teaching the Teachers report, a majority of teachers find the PD they participation in throughout the year to be ineffective. The author of this article suggests some simple but effective strategies to improve teacher professional development sessions through differentiation. January 15, 2016. https://www.edutopia.org/blog/why-dont-we-differentiate-pd-pauline-zdonek
· State Superintendent Paolo DeMaria told legislators earlier this month that the Ohio Department of Education hopes the state can “streamline” the standardized testing of students and that his department will work closely with the governor, legislature and education leaders to determine what is best for future student success. His comments are in response to residents across Ohio who complained last year that standardized testing by the state and districts was excessive. Because much of the state’s standardized testing is mandated by state or federal law, reductions could need a law change. February 8, 2017. http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2017/02/ohio_hopes_to_streamline_student_testing_says_state_superintendent_paolo_demaria.html
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