ERIC ED437287: The Reality of Change.

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The Reality of Change.
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Academic Standards; Change Agents; *Change Strategies;
*Educational Change; Educational Improvement; Educational
Innovation; Educational Technology; Elementary Secondary
Education; Inquiry; Learning Processes; *Mathematics
Education; *Science Education; Teacher Attitudes; Teaching
Methods
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ABSTRACT
This issue of ENC Focus is organized around the theme of
educational change. It intends to provide teachers with practical
resources
and suggestions for implementing reform ideas in the classrooms. Featured
articles include:
"There Can Be No Improvement Without the Teacher"
(1)
(Michael Fullan and Andy Hargreaves);
"Changing Habits of a Lifetime"
(2)
(Marsha Paulus Nicol);
"Playing to Learn: Systems Change Game Challenges
(3)
and Teaches" (Carol Bershad and Susan Mundry);
(4) "Help in Making Change:
SummerMath for Teachers Serves as a Model" (Virginia Bastable);
"Teachers
(5)
Transformed" (Annette Thorson);
"Evolving with the Internet: Taking
(6)
Technology for Granted--Finally" (Kristine Mueh);
"Twelve Small Steps
(7)
toward Change" (Lynda Titterington);
"First in the World Consortium:
(8)
Superintendents Lead the Way to Systemic Change" (Leah Poynter); and (9)
"Student Discourse in an Inquiry-Based Elementary Science Class" (Kathleen M.
Collins, Fe MacLean, Annemarie Palincsar, and Shirley Magnusson). (WRM)
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)cus On: The Reality
This section presents articles on the theme of this issue.
40 First in the World Consortium: Superintendents
There Can Be No Improvement Without the Teacher
;
Lead the Way to Systemic Change
Hargreaves
by Michael Fullan and Andy
Excerpts from an article written exclusively for ENC by two
by Leah Poynter
By participating as a "mini-nation" in the Third International
internationally known authorities on educational change.
Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), 19 school
Originally published in ENC's professional development package,
districts found a way to gather information about their
Teacher Change: Improving K-12 Mathematics. Link to the complete
educational systems and curricula.
1..-A article via http://vvww.enc.orglfocusichange'
Originally published in ENC's professional development
D Changing Habits of a Lifetime
package, Teacher Change: Improving K-12 Mathematics.
\ Link to the article via http://www.enc.orgrfocusichange/
Nicol
by Marsha Paulus
The personal journal of a physics teacher reveals the struggle
42 Student Discourse in an Inquiry-Based Elementary
successful teachers face as they leave the safety of familiar
techniques and tools.
Science Class
by Kathleen Al. Collins, N MacLean, Annemarie Palincsar, and
Originally
published in ENC's professional development package,
Magnusson
Shirley
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Teacher Change: Improving K-12 Mathematics. Link to the article
Action research focusing on interaction in a second grade
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class helps the teacher reflect on change.
4 Playing to Learn:
Systems Change Game Challenges and Teaches
by Carol Bershad and Susan Mundry
When teachers and district administrators play a simulation
game, they gain insight about the implications of change
in their districts.
Help in Making Change:
SummerMath for Teachers Serves as a Model
by Virginia Bastable
Focus On: The Collection
The director of a highly regarded professional development
This section presents abstracts of materials from the ENC
program describes how it works and shares participants'
Collection chosen to illustrate this issue's theme, The Reality of
reactions to the experience.
Change.
Originally published in ENC's professional development package,
45 Choosing Resources to Facilitate Change
Teacher Change: Improving K-12 Mathematics. Link to the complete
article, which includes materials used in the program, via
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Featured Resources
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Teachers kansformed
Thorson
by Annette
An elementary teacher who started out with math anxiety
describes how SummerMath for Teachers helped her face the
reality of change in her classroom. Other elementary and sec-
ondary teachers share their feelings about change.
Originally published in ENC's professional development package,
Teacher Change: Improving K-12 Mathematics. Link to this article
For the fully text of
and other teacher stories via htcp://www.enc.orghfocusichangei
excellent journal
35 Evolving with the interact
articles for educators
Taking Technology for GrantedFinally
exploring change, go to
by Kristine Mueh
A middle school teacher in Boulder, Colorado, reflects on
ENC Online's Teacher Change::
how advances in technology have changed the way she uses
roving K-12 Mathernatici,',
computers in her classroom.
me.ertivz-.orsiti.
38 hvelve Small5teps Toward Change
esources : for Change an
by LyndaTitterinatan
This.artide provides specific examples of hovv low-risk changes
then` Sujgeste
in instruction can start you on the path towarda standards-based
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by changing one's behavior.
Charles Allan,
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That sounds obvious, doesn't it? But many of the people who
Erma Anderson,
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make the loudest demands for the reform of our educational sys-
Ronald Anderson,
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tem seem to overlook the difficulty of making the kind of change
University of Colorado, Boulder
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Jerry Becker,
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our students to take more standardized tests or if we fill our
Southern Illinois University
classrooms with enough computers, somehow education will
Jo Ann Carr,
Director, Center for Instructional
improve.
Materials and Computing,
University
of Wisconsin, Madison
Classroom teachers know better. In their article on page 16,
Joan Countryman,
Head, Lincoln School,
Providence, Rhode Island
international change authorities Fullan and Hargreaves remind
Shirley DeLaney-Butler,
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us, 'There Can Be No Improvement Without the Teacher."
Demonstration Site, George Washington
Recognizing that this is so, we at ENC wanted to help teachers
University
face the future by exploring the Reality of Changethe fact that
Susan Friel,
Researcher and Teacher Educator,
it is hard, even painful.
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Arlene Hambrick,
Program Associate, Midwest Consortium
for Mathematics and Science Education
Elizabeth Horsch,
Presidential Awardee and Retired
Teacher of High School Science, Wyoming
Patricia Hosken,
Director ofTechnology, Redondo Beach
Unified School District, California
Carlo Parravano,
Director, Merck Institute for Science Education
Vasha Rosenblum,
Presidential Awardee and
Teacher of Elementary Mathematics, Alabama
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ENC invites readers to contribute articles
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A Magazine for Classroom Innovators.
This
To be sure, we would like to suggest ways to make change easier.
Carol
issue includes "Playing to Learn" in which game developers
Topics and Deadlines:
Bershad and Susan Mundry describe how an engaging simulation can
staffer
help districts face change (page 24). Science teacher and ENC
Educational Equity
Lynda Titterington provides some low-risk techniques in "Twelve
Submissions due March 1, 2000
Bastable
Small Steps Toward Change" (page 38). On page 28, Virginia
describes a professional development program that has found some
School-Business Partnerships
Valerie Penniman (page 31),
answers. Teachers Mike Smith (page 20),
Submissions due June 1, 2000
and Kristine Meuh (page 35) tell inspiring stories of successful class-
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back on their own experiences
successes do not come easily. Looking
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"It takes a long time and great deal of care...." (See page 18.)
"Quite frankly, I'm afraid [using a new technique] is going to
Articles should be of interest to teachers of K-12
mathematics and science. Content should be grounded
reveal too much about what I don't know." (See page 20.)
in the new educational standards while being short (500
"[You need to] have the courage to listen to resisters." (See page
to 2000 words) and compelling.
27.)
We particularly invite teachers to write about their class-
"[I had to realize] it is okay not to succeed." (See page 31.)
room experiences, using first person and a conversational
"It was really earthshaking" (See page 32.)
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in academic language for graduate school courses are
"I was anxious." (See page 32.)
unlikely to be selected for publication. We do, however,
"I was frustrated." (See page 32.)
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"Questions were churning around and around in my head like a
references. All content must be original, and all
tornado about to touch down." (See page 34.)
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"I was not ready for the questions the students were asking." (See
We also publish essays by K-12 students about their
page 44.)
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