Decision-Maker Quiz to Find Teachers Who Know How to Act on Global Economy Imperatives

by Susan Ohanian, who does not own a SmartPhone or participate in FaceBook This questionnaire, a survey of skills needed in today's education marketplace, facilitates an individual participant's ranking of eligibility for grants from:  Accelerated Reader Achieve Inc all4ed American Federation of Teachers Amplify American Legislative Exchange Council Annenberg Institute for School Reform ASCD Aspen Institute Bellwether Education Partners Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation Brookings Institution Business Roundtable Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of Teaching Center for American Progress Center for Teaching Quality Chic-Fil-A  Chicago Teachers Union Quest Center, Clean Underwear Pedagogy College Board Council of Chief State School Officers Council of Great City Schools Danielson Group: The Framework  Michael and Susan Dell Foundation Democrats for Education Reform  Department of Pediatrics at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Education Trust Editorial Projects in Education Inc (Education Week) Education Writers Association Thomas Fordham Institute Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Harvard University Program on Education Policy and Governance Helmsley Charitable Trust Hillary Clinton Inc. Hoover Institute The Hunt Institute  Institute for Education Sciences Learning First Alliance LearnZillion McKinsey & Company National Center on Education and Economy National Congress of Parents and Teachers (PTA) National Governors Association Center for Best Practices NEA New America Foundation New Leaders New Teacher Project Inc. New Venture Fund New York Times editorial board Partnership for 21st Century Skills Pearson USA  Preva Group, LLC Relay Graduate School of Education Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Rubrics Inc. William E. Simon Foundation  Southern Regional Education Board Stanford University for Opportunity Policy in Education Stand for Children State Farm  Strategic Management of Human Capital Student Achievement Partners/Achieve the Core Success Academy Charter Schools Teach for America Teachscape Teaching Channel TNTP University of Texas at Austin--Charles A. Dana Center       Urban Education Leadership Program, University of Illinois US Chamber of Commerce US Department of Education US DOE Delivery Institute US News & World Report College Rankings Wallace Foundation Walton Family Foundation

[1] Training students to respect and obey authority must be the critical teacher imperative.

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[2]  Students need to work harder and take more responsibility.

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[3]  Donald Trump could gain education chops by choosing Angela Duckworth as a running mate.

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[4] Successful corporate leaders are the most critical role models for student success in today's competitive world.

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[5] A strong, decisive principal is the fundamental element in a teacher’s classroom success.

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[6]   Successful teachers focus on research-based outcome analytics to plan and evaluate their lessons.

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[7]   We need Federal accountability laws that zero in on students' self-sustaining skills and attitudes.

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[8]  What teachers need most, more than laws and money, are forward-looking, fast-track entrepreneurial leaders to show the way.

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9] Successful lesson plans based on critical analysis of student skill assessment outcomes should be maintained in fire-resistant, self-charging, tamper-proof receptacles containing automatic shut-off valve to prevent over-charging.

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[10]  Students need a research-based understanding of brain function showing them how concentrated effort changes their brains and helps them develop a growth mindset.

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[11]   "You can't manage what you don't measure" is the teaching imperative for instilling a substantial and sustained drive for excellence in how students think, act, and feel.

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[12]   Teachers must be clear and bold about data, using it to ensure that all students are performing at high levels at all times.

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[13] Colleges of education must reform, offering more courses in classroom management and fewer in child psychology and the political foundations of US public education.

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[14] The most important thing we can teach children is to work hard.

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[15] Most of our social problems are caused by people who haven't learned to take responsibility for their own lives.

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[16]   More jobs in the twenty-first century require higher order thinking skills than did jobs of the past.

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[17] The successful teacher  avoids controversy and promotes positive attitudes.

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[18] In today's competitive Global Economy, it is more imperative for students to learn computer coding than foreign language.

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[19]    A teacher's failure to acknowledge that all children must master high level critical thinking skills condemns some children to an environment ow low expectations and unemployment.

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[20] People can be divided into two distinct classes: those who have grit and those who don’t.

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[21 Implementing personalized, cutting-edge, blue-ribbon, networked collaborative solutions must be the priority of every teacher.

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[22]   Rewarding those teacher who produce best-performing education output must be the goal of every education management entity.

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[23] No difficulty can hold  back those teachers who  have enough determination.

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[24]  The US Department of Education must take the lead in institutionalizing world class technology-based new economy skills mandates, starting in pre-pre-K.

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25]   The world would would be a better place if children entered kindergarten knowing Cursive and their times tables.

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Score Analysis

25:   Lead an Opt Out movement in your community.

26-50:  Take a day off and read Captain Underpants. Then write 15  letters to newspapers.

51-75:  Throw off your fear, and do what you know is right.

76-100: Cancel your subscription to Education Week and the Wall Street Journal and stop reading New York Times editorials.

101-125  Admit that Teach for American didn't offer squat in preparing you for teaching but did provide an excellent pathway to corporate ascendancy.

126-150  Apply for a job at KIPP.

"Ephemeral Teacher Swarms" aka Part-Time Temps

If you think that TFA is the only corporate game in town intended to de-professionalize teaching and crush public education, think again.  The privateers have more schemes ready to launch as the TFA bubble loses gas, and here is just one of them from the CBE-based KnowledgeWorks, which is another Gates hothouse item that he hopes will grow to choke out public space.  

I suppose it is only appropriate that, as the planet dies from greed, poison, and neglect, some of our Ivy League under-employed and thoroughly positivized millennials should spend their days and earn their bread by coming up with privatizing schemes for Bill Gates that are redolent the rhetoric of eco-consciousness.  

This document and the clip below is aflutter with "stewardship" and "learning ecosystem" talk.  By far, my favorite new fragmented teacher role is "data steward." 

Seven Possible Educator Roles 

To help education stakeholders imagine what kinds of educator roles might contribute to flexible and rigorous learning ecosystems that enable both learners and the adults supporting them to thrive, this paper explores seven possible educator roles.

1. (1)  Learning Pathway Designer – Works with students, parents, and learning journey mentors6 to set learning goals, track students’ progress and pacing, and model potential sequences of activities that support learning experiences aligned with competencies. 
   
   
2. (2)  Competency Tracker – Tags and maps community-based learning opportunities by the competencies they address in order to support the development of recon gurable personalized learning pathways and school formats. 
   
   
3. (3)  Pop-Up Reality Producer – Works with educators, subject matter experts, story developers, and game designers to produce pervasive learning extravaganzas that engage learners in ow states7 and help them develop relevant skills, academic competencies, and knowhow. 
   
   
4. (4)  Social Innovation Portfolio Director – Builds networks in support of meaningful service-based learning and community impact by linking student action-learning groups seeking to develop core skills and knowledge with organizations seeking creative solutions. 
   
   
5. (5)  Learning Naturalist – Designs and deploys assessment protocols that capture evidence of learning in students’ diverse learning environments and contexts. 
   
   
6. (6)  Micro-Credential Analyst – Provides trusted, research-based evaluations and audits of micro- credential options and digital portfolio platforms in order to provide learners and institutions with comparative quality assurance metrics. 
   
   
7. (7)  Data Steward – Acts as a third-party information trustee to ensure responsible and ethical use of personal data and to maintain broader education data system integrity and effective application through purposeful analytics.
   

Some of these roles would be likely to involve full-time employment for a single organization, while others could reaect more ad hoc, network-based employment structures, at least for some of the people occupying them. Some of the roles might attract current teachers and administrators; others might attract people from other backgrounds, including the data sciences, anthropology and ethnography, neuropsychology, and media design. 

Regardless of an individual’s employment arrangements or background, educator swarms will likely form to meet the needs of individual learners or cohorts of learners. Educator swarms would be flexible and often temporary teams of educators that configured to meet learners’ needs and then reconfigured differently as needs shifted. Those swarms could span organizational boundaries as well as the line that we draw today between the formal and informal or community-based learning sectors. Furthermore, the configurations of future educator swarms could be far more ephemeral than many of today’s teaching assignments.

Talking about Teaching in KIPP Model Schools: Interview with Sid Glassner

Talking about the "No Excuses" Schools. Conducted on February 25:

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