Transcript What Ought To Be the Elements of Educational Reform?

What Ought To Be the Elements
of Educational Reform?
Reform Should Include
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Excellence
Active learning
Authentic Assessment
Community
School choice
Learning to Learn
Character Education
Excellence should include
• Achievement as
measured by criterion
tests, not just
normative
• Achievement by
students, not their
teachers
• Achievement at
relevant tasks
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Active Learning
• Makes use of theories
of Piaget, Vygotsky,
Bruner
• Student-centered
• Learners construct
meaning
• Takes longer but lasts
longer
Authentic Assessment
• Opposite to “teaching
to the test.”
• “Authentic”=real.
Like serving a tennis
ball instead of taking a
test about tennis
• Portfolios
• Criterion-referenced
Community
• Students sometimes feel like “I’m lost
here.”
• No ownership, no responsibility
• Geographic non-ownership
• Schools-Within-Schools
School Choice
• Parents as educational
consumers
• Home schooling
• Charter schools
• Vouchers
• The rise of private and
parochial schools
• Site-based decision
making
Learning to Learn
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More than just learning immediate facts
Learning patterns, strategies-“The structure of the discipline.”
Albert Einstein--”Let me look up my phone
number for you.”
Character Education
• Krathwohl’s
taxonomy--receiving,
responding, valuing,
organization,
organization of values
• Is indoctrination
totally bad?