Tests, learning and school change at EduCon
January 29, 2009 by nporter
Here is a link to an interesting panel discussion about issues that we are having to deal with nation wide and I am faced with it here in my classroom.
http://www.scienceleadership.org/~clehmann/test.html
This panel gathered at the EduCon conference last week in Philadelphia. What a great experience the conference must have been. May be will get there one of these years.
Note that Maine is represented on the panel by Bette Manchester.
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what I heard
I loved
no time to listen
to the whole thing
no time
no time
not time
BUT
Maybe
there’s no need
to listen
to the whole thing
the whole thing
the whole thing
maybe…
I just need
to get back
to twenty-odd years ago..
when I followed
my heart
my instinct
my passion
what are “they” gonna do?
take my birthday away?
could be a rebirth
As more and more new jargon, acronyms, and testing strategies are pushed my way I am turning towards more personal teaching which is as you state “my heart, my instinct, my passion” Is it not for the better?
“what are “they” gonna do?”
Here’s a great clip that we viewed recently in an MEd class at good old StFX in Nova Scotia.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Eh2QlJfuHM
Through the great one liners is a real message about where education has been… where its headed!