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TITHING FOR TEACHERS: FOR A LEGACY OF EXCELLENCE, A LIFETIME OF TANGIBLE THANKS

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Addressing teacher evaluations currently based either on formal and mostly contractual agreements or high stakes test results; both of which are flawed metrics. A series of metrics, say a Likert scale (1-5 or NA) where they could identify and rate teachers based on objective criteria.

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5.1 Reasons How and Why to Build Learning with Social Media

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Social media by its nature is a low key, playful environment providing the opportunities to express emotions to spur on a panoramic view of the problem/project easily refocusing as needed. Use social media tools to communicate and report; and the leader can check the group’s progress by looking at metrics with tools (Social Oomph, etc.).

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Here’s a Way to Fix Relationships in Distress

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How deep the rift, how often the cuts and makeups and how long the cycle continues is a metric of whether the relationship has legs for a long run. All couples share dark moments from misunderstandings, misfortunes, malfeasance. People change, grow, and move towards or away from each other. Is it time to split up the books and furniture?

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Treacherous Business Words Used in Learning « Wonderful Brain

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More often than we’d like to admit the resulting course has two-fold results: It is used, maybe, if it actually answers a need for which you thought it was made but never fully understood (shooting in the dark syndrome) or if it is delivered, the results are never exposed to any metric for measurement. BTW, mother’s are great at this. (At

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10.2 Strategic Ways to Ensure Learning Begets Performance Improvement

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While we can all agree a yardstick is required, we often have a hard time decoding points A and B, a decision provided by the business identifying current and preferable conditions. Provide One Example Of An Observable And Positive Outcome. Now pivot over to learning where content is made from the distance between those 2 points.

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SCENARIOS ARE MINI DRAMAS…NOT A GLORIFIED Q & A.

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The latter are necessary for evaluating variables like degree of success, number of attempts, quality of corrections and other metrics that will determine whether the actor can go on to the next scene or stay on for take 21. Providing a visualization of a realistic environment is essential.

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WHEN YOUR LEARNERS ARE ENGINEERS… BETTER KNOW YOUR AUDIENCE

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One, and maybe the most important metric, is their profession. The Instructor’s Manual would provide all the labs, screens, teaching scripts and software application directions. He would then review the responses, see the areas where there was most confusion, and later start the lab session with remediation of those areas.