A Boston area innovation studio for middle and high school students is bucking the traditional school model for what students love best: hands-on learning.
Via Dr. Susan Bainbridge, Jim Lerman
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Beth Dichter's curator insight,
February 3, 2013 9:56 PM
The Common Core testing is rapidly approaching and this article discusses a research paper that was just released by UCLA's National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards & Student Testing. They state that "the assessments hold a lot of promise for improving teacher practice and student learning" and that "the test-making projects face key financial, technical, and political challenges that could affect their success." They also reference a variety of resources, including one new to me called the Depth of Knowledge Levels (DOK), which provides four levels (the link to the DOK is at http://dese.mo.gov/divimprove/sia/msip/DOK_Chart.pdf): * Level One is recall * Level Two is skill/concept * Level Three is strategic thinking * Level Four is extended thinking The link to this DOK reminds me of Bloom's Taxonomy with verbs to help you understand each section as well as activities based on the level. The question that remains to be answered is if the tests being created by the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) and the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium will reach these levels, and according to this report it appears that will have "the more lengthy, complex performance tasks being crafted by the two groups...seemed likely to assess skills at DOK Level 4." The post also discusses some of the issues that remain, including cost and time of testing, cost of scoring, dealing with accomocations, and "Managing the "shock to the public and to teachers' instructional practice" that the tests' increased intellectual rigor will demand."
Monica S Mcfeeters's curator insight,
February 4, 2013 12:59 PM
How do you test creativity and innovation using "set" core standards of evaluation? Creativity and innovation require a certain amount of willingness for failure and risk taking. How does training for common core test "standards" assist that higher level goal? |
Joyce Valenza's curator insight,
August 14, 2017 8:57 AM
An interview with Dr. Dweck that offers insights and counters myths.
Rosemary Tyrrell, Ed.D.'s curator insight,
August 14, 2017 12:27 PM
Interview with always interesting Carol Dweck. I appreciate the nuance of what she is discussing here.
Ian Berry's curator insight,
August 14, 2017 7:15 PM
Great reminders of several aspects what I call appreciative leadership. "Effort is one factor that leads to learning. So the ultimate value is growth, progress, learning. And effort is one thing that leads there but there are many other things – strategies, using resources, getting advice, guidance and mentorship, and when people leave that out and just praise effort, it’s not transmitting a growth mindset."
Gust MEES's curator insight,
June 7, 2017 2:22 PM
Teacher professional learning is of increasing interest as one way to support the increasingly complex skills students need to learn in preparation for further education and work in the 21st century. Sophisticated forms of teaching are needed to develop student competencies such as deep mastery of challenging content, critical thinking, complex problem-solving,
effective communication and collaboration, and self-direction. In turn, effective professional development (PD) is needed to help teachers learn and refine the pedagogies required to teach these skills. However, research has shown that many PD initiatives appear ineffective in supporting changes in teacher practices and student learning. Accordingly, we set out to discover the features of effective PD.
This paper reviews 35 methodologically rigorous studies that have demonstrated a positive link between teacher professional development, teaching practices, and student outcomes. We identify the features of these approaches and offer rich descriptions of these models to inform those seeking to understand the nature of the initiatives.
Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren:
https://gustmees.wordpress.com/?s=coaching
https://gustmees.wordpress.com/?s=professional+development
Rosemary Tyrrell, Ed.D.'s curator insight,
June 8, 2017 10:59 AM
A must-read for anyone interested in faculty professional development
Gust MEES's curator insight,
December 16, 2016 3:38 PM
False growth mindset is saying you have growth mindset when you don’t really have it or you don’t really understand [what it is]. It’s also false in the sense that nobody has a growth mindset in everything all the time. Everyone is a mixture of fixed and growth mindsets. You could have a predominant growth mindset in an area but there can still be things that trigger you into a fixed mindset trait.
Something really challenging and outside your comfort zone can trigger it, or, if you encounter someone who is much better than you at something you pride yourself on, you can think “Oh, that person has ability, not me.” So I think we all, students and adults, have to look for our fixed-mindset triggers and understand when we are falling into that mindset.
Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren:
http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=Growth+Mindset
https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2016/11/14/pssst-the-most-important-in-education-understanding/
terrymc's curator insight,
September 23, 2013 10:21 AM
Curation can be used as an authentic activity with many disciplines to enable students to critically evaluate resources for a common interest. Would like to hear more about discipline based projects.
Karyn McGinley's curator insight,
October 22, 2013 7:13 PM
I am eager to delve into this further.... |
Divorce your school from bells and national standards drive n data production in favour of connections. developing problem based learning requires questioning the structure that our schools operate within. Counter. Culture.
Learning by doing has always been a pattern to master a craft. This is particularly true for the new-normal which cannot simply be taught as it is not there yet.
What i mean is that the higher skill of entrepreneurship must be mastered in the same way: by doing, but with an OS that enables better results