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The New PLC: Programming for Learning

I believe in 1:1 learning. I also acknowledge the difficulty inherent in differentiating instruction for multiple classes of 30+ students a day. I envision a school system in which students learn to take ownership of their work and acquire essential skills and understandings through self-directed curricula. I think we need to scale up models [...]

Posted 19 March 2010 † Chad § Blog post ‡ Comments (3) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , ,

The Asking of New Questions

Kyle Pace posted a challenge during last night’s #edchat on encouraging teachers to adapt and change in response to the needs of today’s students.

It sent me thinking in a new direction about teacher evaluation as practiced by us teachers.
Apart from formal teacher evaluation, we evaluate one another all the time. We evaluate ourselves against [...]

Posted 28 October 2009 † Chad § Blog post ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , ,

The Standard is Authenticity

Over at Twitter recently, @mctownsley pointed toward an earlier post at Edumacation about the tension between standards-based assessment and traditional grading.

Assessments, like any kind of data-based research, can be used by many people in many different ways.

One teacher might pump her fist in the air after seeing that 95% of her students passed this year’s reading [...]

Posted 09 August 2009 † Chad § Blog post ‡ Comments (7) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , ,