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Meaningful Feedback Helps Invisible Teachers Move Out of the Shadows

Senior Researcher Elias Walsh looks into helping provide meaningful feedback to "invisible teachers" - those who leave the profession feeling as though they have made no progress with their students.




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Why Is the Achievement Gap So Large? It’s Not the Teachers

The academic achievement gap in the United States is large. A low-income child has less than a 1 in 10 chance of graduating from college, compared to nearly 8 in 10 high-income children.




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Experimenting with Multiple Measures of Teacher Effectiveness

How do we identify great teachers and help all teachers improve their craft? The best option may be to combine student growth measures, observations of teachers in the classroom, and student surveys.




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National Teacher Day: What’s the Value of a Good Teacher?

National Teacher Day honors teachers for the lasting contributions they make to students’ lives.




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High-Stakes Evaluation: Does It Scare Teachers Away?

Does high-stakes evaluation scare teachers away? And if so, which teachers? Does this help or harm students? High-stakes evaluation does affect who comes into the classroom and who stays there, and research indicates that this flux may actually be good for students.




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Teaching religious influences in history in Australia : a submission on the National History Curriculum, framing paper / prepared by Mr Alex Mills

Mills, Alex, author




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Stats: Dhawan-Rahul partnership steady India's ship

Statistical highlights on Day four of the opening cricket Test between India and Sri Lanka at Eden Gardens, in Kolkata on Sunday.





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Know your IPL Team: Delhi Capitals

Rajneesh Gupta presents statistical summary of Delhi Capitals formerly known as Delhi Daredevils and much more.








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Know your IPL Team: Rajasthan Royals

Rajneesh Gupta presents statistical summary of Rajasthan Royals and much more.





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Coronavirus: Football teams will be allowed to use five substitutes to deal with fixture backlog

The International Football Association Board said in a statement that it had agreed to a proposal by Fifa for a temporary rule change to protect players.




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BCCI considers fielding two separate teams for matches on same day post coronavirus: Report

The board has reportedly run the idea with the coaching staff.




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Lionel Messi and his Barcelona teammates return to training as La Liga eyes restart

The players arrived alone for individual sessions and took to the three pitches without passing through the changing rooms.




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Equal pay lawsuit: US women's national football team files appeal after legal setback

The USWNT has said the women are being discriminated against because they are not getting paid as much money as the men on a per game basis.




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Australian captain Meg Lanning leads online batting class for Ireland women’s cricket team

Lanning was joined by former Ireland skipper Isobel Joyce in the session that also featured the head coaches of both teams Ed Joyce and Matthew Mott.




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Covid-19: Teachers to evaluate CBSE Class 10, 12 exam papers at home from Sunday, says Centre

The answer sheets will be delivered to the teachers’ homes from 3,000 schools designated as exam centres.




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Microbial biofilms in bioremediation and wastewater treatment / editors, Y.V. Nancharaiah, Biofouling and Biofilm Processes Section, Water and Steam Chemistry Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Kalpakkam, Tamil Nadu, India and Vayalam P. Venugopala

Online Resource




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Back to America: identity, political culture, and the Tea Party movement / William H. Westermeyer

Dewey Library - JK2391.T43 W48 2019




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Radar energy warfare and the challenges of stealth technology / Bahman Zohuri

Online Resource




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Teachers' recruitment scam: Chautala surrenders before Tihar jail authorities

Chautala was granted interim bail by the HC on July 23 for six weeks on medical ground.




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Brigadier faces probe for stealing 450-year old structures

After the incident was brought to Army's notice, the authorities are probing the matter.




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NaMo tea, banners entice Patna to rally

The ruling JD(U), however, is not impressed with such "cheap theatrics".




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Teacher stands up to Gujarat govt dress code, writes to Narendra Modi

A dress code insists teaching assistants to wear sarees instead of salwar-kameez.




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Centre seeks report on Patna blast, rushes NIA team

Centre also decided to send a team of explosive experts of the NIA to help the Bihar police.




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Reality check: In Bihar, every 4th primary, middle teacher failed Class V-level test

43,000 contractual teachers took 'competency'' exam, over 10,000 failed.




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Tales of an ecotourist : what travel to wild places can teach us about climate change / Mike Gunter Jr

Gunter, Michael M., 1969- author




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Facebook cuts back on cybersecurity team as it invests more in automation

The employees responsible for tackling hacking threats have alleged that the Silicon Valley giant is replacing them with machines and is automating its alert response and security teams




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Ace shooter assaulted by eve-teasers in Kolkata



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Cop who fell out with Mamata teams up with CPM rebel



  • DO NOT USE West Bengal
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Can recognise madrasas but cannot pay its teachers: Mamata Banerjee



  • DO NOT USE West Bengal
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The Little Wonder gold mine / by Peter J. Bridge with Angela Teague

Bridge, Peter J. (Peter John), 1943-




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Covid-19: Central team asks State about frontline staff, quarantine facilities

A.P. is ahead of other states with regard to testing capacity, Medical and Health Commissioner Katamaneni Bhaskar said the government was taking measures to contain the spread of the virus




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Police bid a tearful adieu to their 'Raja'

The tracker dog had won several medals, says SP




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Central team enquires about frontline workers who contracted COVID-19

It also seeks details of paid quarantine facilities and death rate




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030 JSJ Learning & Teaching JavaScript with Noel Rappin

Panel Noel Rappin (twitter github blog) Jamison Dance (twitter github blog) Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Intro to CoffeeScript) AJ O’Neal (twitter github blog) Discussion 00:52 - Works in training and talent development for Groupon 00:56 - Author of Rails Test Prescriptions and upcoming Master Space and Time with JavaScript 01:21 - Writing a book about JavaScript 02:33 - Focus of the book Part 1: Jasmine and jQuery and the JavaScript Object Model Part 2: Extended examples of jQuery Part 3: Backbone Part 4: Ember 03:46 - Self-published authors 05:15 - Approaches and mindsets to learning JavaScript 06:04 - “Gotchas!” and bad features in Javascript 09:17 - Modeling JavaScript for beginners 11:23 - (AJ joins the podcast) 11:42 - Resources/Classes for learning JavaScript Good Parts Book: Douglas Crockford JavaScript Patterns: Stoyan Stefanov Eloquent JavaScript: A Modern Introduction to Programming: Marijn Haverbeke Maintainable JavaScript: Nicholas C. Zakas 13:54 - Hiring people with JavaScript experience at Groupon 15:12 - Training workshops 17:00 - Getting new hires up to speed quickly Pairing Mentoring Lectures Workshops 21:38 - Book Learning You can learn at your own pace But it’s hard to ask questions to a book 22:51 - How Noel gained expertise in JavaScript 24:38 - Code reading and learning to program a language 26:18 - Teaching people JavaScript as their very first language 31:55 - Classroom layout 33:42 - Online training Kahn Academy Computer Science Code Academy Starter League 40:00 - Finding a mentor Stack Overflow Picks Shrines by Purity Ring (Jamison) Learnable Programming: Bret Victor (Jamison) Mob Software: Richard P. Gabriel & Ron Goldman (Jamison) Monoprice.com (AJ) ZREO: Zelda Reorchestrated (AJ) The Official Twitter App (Chuck) Fluid App (Chuck) Try Jasmine! (Noel) Justin Searls (Noel) The Atrocity Archives: Charles Stross (Noel) Futurity: A Musical by The Lisps (Noel) Transcript NOEL: I’m trying to figure out where the chat is in this stupid Skype interface. JAMISON: Just imagine the worst place it could possibly be and that’s where it is. [This episode is sponsored by ComponentOne, makers of Wijmo. If you need stunning UI elements or awesome graphs and charts, then go to wijmo.com and check them out.] [Hosting and bandwidth provided by The Blue Box Group. Check them out at bluebox.net] CHUCK: Hey everybody and welcome to Episode 30 of the JavaScript Jabber show! This week on our panel we have, Jamison Dance. JAMISON: Hey guys! CHUCK: I’m Charles Max Wood from devchat.tv and this week, we have a special guest and that’s Noel Rappin! NOEL: Hey everybody! CHUCK: For the people who don’t know who you are, you want to introduce yourself, Noel? NOEL:  Sure. I currently work in training and talent development for Groupon. And I am the author of previously “Rails Test Prescriptions” and currently a self-published book called “Master Time and Space with JavaScript”, which you can get at noelrappin.com. I need to spell that out, right? N-o-e-l-r-a-p-p-i-n.com CHUCK: So I’m little curious, before we get into the topic which is learning and teaching JavaScript, how did you get into writing a book about JavaScript? What’s your background there? NOEL: You know, it actually relates to teaching and learning JavaScript. I think, I was like… a lot of long time web devs. I spent my first round as a web consultant in around, turn of the century 2000’s. I spent time trying to talk clients out of JavaScript stuff because it was such a pain in the neck. And I kind of got away from it for awhile and came back a couple of years ago to realize that basically, everything had changed and they were actually usable tools now. And last summer, I was working with a… at that time,




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053 JSJ Software Team Dynamics

Use this link and code JAVAJAB to get 20% off your registration for FluentConf 2013! Panel Joe Eames (twitter github blog) Jamison Dance (twitter github blog) AJ O’Neal (twitter github blog) Merrick Christensen (twitter github) Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Rails Ramp Up) Discussion 02:48 - External Conflicts Dealing with people outside your own team 07:04 - Areas of Expertise 08:45 - Expectations and Deadlines Multiple Layers of Hierarchy Differences in Goals 13:47 - Flatter Structure Approach 15:21 - The Search for Developers Finding the ideal people What makes an ‘A Player’? Intellectual Capability 19:47 - Team Scaling/ Scaling Agile Scaling Agile @ Spotify How Stripe Builds Software, with Greg Brockman 25:10 - Team Diversity 29:57 - Team Dynamics Attitude Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd by Youngme Moon (Joe) 35:00 - Specialization 40:08 - Dealing with someone you don’t like Circumventing Confrontation 50:52 - Dealing with a non-engaged person Picks Honest and open conversations (Merrick) Noah Gundersen (Merrick) Oz the Great and Powerful (Joe) Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd by Youngme Moon (Joe) The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are by Brené Brown (Joe) King of Tokyo (Joe) AngularJS (Joe) Kiki's Delivery Service (Jamison) Local 0.2.2 (Jamison) Ciaran Jessup (AJ) Psych Season 7 (AJ) Google+ Hangouts (AJ) ScreenFlow (AJ) Jing (Chuck) Transmit (Chuck) Next Week JavaScript Parsing, ASTs, and Language Grammar w/ David Herman and Ariya Hidayat Transcript CHUCK:  So, team dynamics this week? JOE:  Sorry, is that our discussion or is that what we decided to call ourselves? [Laughter] CHUCK:  It’s our discussion topic this week. AJ:  We are Team Dynamics. JOE:  Because if we’re going with names, I would like to submit the Wolverines. CHUCK:  The Wolverines? I think it’s taken by a University around here. AJ:  Yeah, and my high school back in Virginia, and that dude from New Zealand who plays in X-Men. CHUCK:  That dude? AJ:  Yeah, that dude, Hugh Jackman. CHUCK:  [Chuckles] [Hosting and bandwidth provided by the Blue Box Group. Check them out at Bluebox.net.] [This episode is sponsored by Component One, makers of Wijmo. If you need stunning UI elements or awesome graphs and charts, then go to Wijmo.com and check them out.] CHUCK:  Hey everybody, and welcome to Episode 53 of the JavaScript Jabber Show. This week on our panel, we have Joe Eames. JOE:  Hi there. CHUCK:  Jamison Dance. JAMISON:  Hello, my mission is to bring calm to the boiling cauldron of hate that is the Internet. CHUCK:  AJ O’Neal. AJ:  Yo! Yo! Yo! Coming at you live from the pulling my hair out over Iowa. CHUCK:  Merrick Christensen. MERRICK:  What up? CHUCK:  I’m Charles Max Wood from DevChat.tv and don’t forget to use that code to get into Fluent Conf. MERRICK:  It’s a big conference. You can go to FluentConf.com for the schedule, happens May 28th to the 30th, it’s at the Hilton Union Square in San Francisco. And for our listeners, you can actually get 20% off on your ticket using JAVAJAB. And that will give you 20% off on the registration. CHUCK:  This week, we’re going to be talking about team dynamics and all the fun stuff that goes with it. To start us off, I kind of want to ask because I always get good stories from people when I ask questions like this. What is your worst team experience? JOE:  That’s quite a way to start it off. It sounds like a good way to get me to burn some bridges. AJ:  No, no, I know this one… JAMISON:  I played little league and I was scared of the ball. And I had the bat and I was really short and they wanted me to bat first because I’d be walked all the time to get on base but I just wanted to quit.




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143 JSJ Teaching Programming and Computer Science with Pamela Fox

Pamela Fox and the rest of the gang talk about teaching programming and Computer Science.




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220 JSJ Teaching JavaScript with Kyle Simpson

02:25 - Kyle Simpson Introduction

04:43 - Development => Teaching

16:20 - Inheritance and Delegation

29:40 - Evolving a Language

36:23 - Cohersion

50:37 - Performance

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54:33 - Developer Education Programs and The Skill of Teaching

 

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Yet more everyday science mysteries [electronic resource] : stories for inquiry-based science teaching / Richard Konicek-Moran ; botanical illustrations by Kathleen Konicek-Moran

Konicek-Moran, Richard




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Youth policy in Ukraine [electronic resource] : conclusions of the Council of Europe international review team / Ewa Krzaklewska, Howard Williamson, members of the Council of Europe International Youth Policy Review Team

Krzaklewska, Ewa , author




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The zero-turnover sales force [electronic resource] : how to maximize revenue by keeping your sales team intact / Doug McLeod

McLeod, Doug




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Essentials of oceanography / Alan P. Trujillo (Distinguished Teaching Professor, Palomar College), Harold V. Thurman (Former Professor Emeritus, MT. San Antonio College)

Trujillo, Alan P., author




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Essentials of oceanography / Alan P. Trujillo (Distinquished Teaching Professional, Palomar College), Harold V. Thurman (Former Professor Emeritus, Mt. San Antonio College)

Trujillo, Alan P., author




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Jesus' literacy : scribal culture and the teacher from Galilee / Chris Keith

Keith, Chris, author




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Hearing John's voice : insights for teaching and preaching / M. Eugene Boring

Boring, M. Eugene, author