Transcript It’s Not About the Standards: It’s About Creating Student

It’s Not About the Standards:
It’s About Creating StudentScholars on the Web
Ted Nellen
http://www.tnellen.com/ted/cw2001/
Don’t be Confused
• Currently K-12 education is under siege.
• We hear and call it the standards movement,
but it is really the high stakes test
movement.
• Don’t confuse Standards with High Stakes
tests. They are not connected.
We have Standards
• We all have Standards that we live and
teach by, whether they are state directed or
self imposed. This is good.
• What is bad are the High Stakes Tests
masquerading as Standards.
• What I wish to do is use the Standards to
help create the student-scholar and
eliminate the High Stakes Tests.
The Standards
• State Standards
• National Standards
• Others
Scholarship
• Scholarship is what we promote. It is the
foundation upon which schooling was
created, to my way of thinking.
• What is scholarship?
– Make it public
– Peer review
– Pass it on
Make it Public
• Publish
• AUP and permission slips
• Ethics
Peer Review
• Good practice
– I heard
– I noticed
– I wondered
• Telementoring
Pass it on
• Publish
– Electronic
– Print
• Present
How can we achieve the
Standards?
• WebQuests: Teacher generated lessons on
the web which are public and accessible on
the web.
• WebQuests:
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Address Standards
Make work public
Engage in peer review
Pass it on
It’s Not About the Standards:
It’s About Creating StudentScholars on the Web
Ted Nellen
http://www.tnellen.com/ted/cw2001/