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	<title>Synthesizing Education &#187; Teacher Preparation Programs</title>
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		<title>Effective Teachers Can Come From Anywhere&#8230;Even Mars</title>
		<link>http://synthesizingeducation.com/blog/2010/05/07/effective-teachers-can-come-from-anywhere-even-mars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 14:39:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Eyler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I am perusing through my Google Reader, and I come across this blog post from Tal Pinchevsky titled, “How The Ivy League Might Reshape Education”. He makes some interesting points about the newest numbers available on how Ivy League schools are seeing rising enrollments in programs like Teach For America (TFA) and the advent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Teacher Innovation A Product of Experience?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Eyler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jonah Lehrer published this blog post further discussing (in part) his article from the Wall Street Journal about the relationship between peak creativity and specific fields of knowledge. Take a moment to consider these excerpts and their implication on education: Those fields with a logically consistent set of principles, such as physics and chess, tend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Developing Curiosity and Lifelong Learners</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:13:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Eyler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Classroom Pedagogy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can remember my teacher education classes from undergraduate with fair accuracy when it comes to questioning and pedagogy. Many professors emphasize questioning techniques that provide scaffolding and helping students up the ladder of Bloom’s taxonomy. In doing so, future teachers are taught how to ask good questions to students and it is accepted as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Role(s) of Teachers in Hybrid Learning Environments</title>
		<link>http://synthesizingeducation.com/blog/2010/01/22/the-roles-of-teachers-in-hybrid-learning-environments/</link>
		<comments>http://synthesizingeducation.com/blog/2010/01/22/the-roles-of-teachers-in-hybrid-learning-environments/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Eyler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps the biggest problem with advancing online education and people&#8217;s attitudes towards online education is a result of their prior knowledge. Please understand that online education of the past will be replaced with a form of hybrid learning that integrates the positives of the physical world and the virtual world. That&#8217;s why it is imperative that districts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Class Sizes of 50 Could Be Better</title>
		<link>http://synthesizingeducation.com/blog/2010/01/07/why-classes-of-50-students-each-could-be-better/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:11:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Eyler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I told you that you would have 50 kids per class with 5 classes per day what would you say? How about if I told you that you would have two teacher assistants in each class? What if those teacher assistants were college students that were going to become teachers? What if those same [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Importance of Revamping Teacher Preparation Programs</title>
		<link>http://synthesizingeducation.com/blog/2010/01/03/the-importance-of-revamping-teacher-preparation-programs/</link>
		<comments>http://synthesizingeducation.com/blog/2010/01/03/the-importance-of-revamping-teacher-preparation-programs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 17:42:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Eyler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The University of Michigan is making waves with the revamping of their teacher preparation program! Why the exclamation point at the end of that sentence? Because it is about time that schools of education begin to realize that they are behind medical schools, law schools, and business schools in the quality of preparation that graduating [...]]]></description>
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