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SITE Conference 2009
The 20th Annual SITE International Conference will be held March 2 - 6, 2009 in Charleston, South Carolina, USA. More Info >>
For 2008 SITE Conference presentations, please visit the archive on the SITE conference web site.
SITE Co-Sponsors China Tour
SITE is co-sponsoring a unique opportunity to tour the extraordinary sights of China and meet with educational leaders. Deadline to register: Oct. 31, 2008. For more information, view the China Tour PDF and view the China Tour Itinerary.
SITE Blog
Online?
As a late response to Gerald Knezek (June 23rd, 2008) regarding online teacher education,
I think that is is being done properly, at least in a way that attends to access issues more effectively and offers more flexibility than many onsite courses. For those needing structure synchronous online courses (web-based videoconferencing) can provide that. The question becomes what is it that a campus-based course can uniquely offer? And my responses are the following:
- drama, that is, good onsite sociocognitive and compelling events (courses, seminars, and so on...)! But how many of our educational situations fall into this category?
-participation, that is, participation to a community of reflective individuals on teaching and learning. But are we really providing that except to a few that we hire as teaching and research assistants?… Continue reading
More...The Disappearing Teacher Population.. Who , what , how, why and when!!
From USA Today, Thursday, October 23, 2008. See In inner city schools of America, Chancellors are holding vintage teachers hostage. Joel Kline said on a press conference regarding high schools that the pensions and pay for retired teachers was holding the school systems hostage. Is he kidding me and you? AIG and the Wall Street buyouts and they blame teachers for the woes of education, the funding shortage the lack of money. I always check out the ballparks in a place that has a problem with schools. Inner cities have great ballparks and their players get paid well. Excuse me while I cut the strings of a less than golden parachute. These people must be mad! At the end of a teaching career the rewards don't necessarily match the dedicated effort… Continue reading More...
Go East Young Man (and Woman)!
As part of its commitment to present an increasing global perspective to its members, SITE is a cosponsor of an “educator’s” trip to China, scheduled for March 12-23, 2009. During this trip, in additional to viewing the major sites of China, tour participants will be given access to Chinese educators at various levels: from K-12 teachers and schools to university faculty and administrators to governmental education officials. Note, this tour is also open to college students who may enroll in credit-bearing courses, if interested.
Of course, while some of us may be traveling east to China, others may be traveling west…or north… Hmm…what would Horace Greeley say?
For more details, visit the following sites: http://site.aace.org/chinatour.pdf and http://site.aace.org/china-itinerary.pdf, or contact Mike Searson …
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