Transcript The Education Czar Debate

R. Gagne
B F Skinner
Lois Lane
HS Editor
Herbie Shrek
Pixar Entertainment
Bob Bartley
Wall Street Journal
L. Vygotsy
Janet Williams
Ed. Testing Serv
Assessment would be ongoing, so the
Janet… Getting a
rather thanThat is a difficult question
L. Vygotsy
R. Gagne
B F Skinner student is challenged
quality education is mostly the work of the
frustrated.
identifying each student’s individual
•I would make standards similarteacher
to the way
Standards must be observable. For example,
if
we set prepare
apprentices and needs. I have nine instructional events that
a student must synthesize aspirin, hejourneymen
should
highlight the way students break down
in the trades.
be observed successfully doing the task
in
a
information
•Progress through more and more
intricate in order to learn. By following
these events while teaching, the teacher is
projects
laboratory.
•For example, a machinist must more
createlikely
a to have given a quality education.
By (1) Gaining the attention of the student
perfect cube out of metal using only
, (2) informing them of the objective
manual tools. When this is done,(reception)
the
(expectancy)
and (3) stimulating recall of prior
student has become a master.
(retrieval) you have the basics of a
•The difference in my approach learning
is that like
quality
education.
The other six events solidify
the trades, students must work under a
thatorthe student has the knowledge of the
mentor as well as learn classroom
subject at hand by semantic encoding,
theoretical knowledge.
responding
•Students must be assessed before
they and reinforcement. I believe
Lois
Lane
Bob
Bartley
students
would do much better on
learn as well as after,
so thestandards
learning
pace
What
would
HS
Editor
Wall
Street
Journal
standardized
testing if teachers were able to
can be individualized and take advantage
Janet Williams
dedicatefor
this a
much attention to each student.
You development.
advocate
of their zone of proximal
Herbie Shrek
With these nine eventsEd.
youTesting
have theServ
“goods”
Pixar Entertainment
quality education?
for a quality education and the teaching
methods involved for every student to get one.
I would tell the workforce of tomorrow to
L. Vygotsy
intellectual skills
R. Gagne be prepared to use their
B F Skinner
when starting a new job. Problem solving
is a skill that will set you apart from others
in your field. If you can recognize the
need and go through all the steps to solve
that need, you will be steps ahead of your
I would make them all cogs in
peers.
a well-oiled machine.
Students, like workers,
should be rewarded for
appropriate behavior and
inappropriate behavior would
How would you
be extinguished by removing
prepare the
reinforcement or aversive
conditioning. Students would
workforce of
be rewarded for good group
tomorrow?
behavior and the
group
and
Lois
Lane
Bob Bartley
teacher would ignore the
HS Editor
Wall Street Journal
student if she behaves
Janet Williams
This guy’s a
Herbie Shrek
improperly.
Ed. Testing Serv
real Nazi!
Pixar Entertainment
Making education entertaining has
L. Vygotsy
B F Skinner
always
been a challenge. Using R. Gagne
theisbasics
of my conditions to
Entertainment
a useless
Sorry, Bob. The education I just
andas
adding some
construct unless teach
it is used
described to Herbie would be paired
entertainment couldn’t hurt.
the positive reinforcement.
with the types of industries available
Especially since all students learn
to a region.Students
Like Intelfind
andlearning interesting when
at different levels. The readiness
Albequerque thethey
businesses
could in a topic. Schools
are interested
of a student will determine whether
pay their “local corporate
taxes”
by like many of our
should be
organized
he will be able to learn something.
participating in
the
students
magnet schools are, around math and
Motivation, particularly, the
education, building
schools at
lower
computing,
performing
arts, vocational
incentive type can be a very
cost and higher quality
than
available
schools of specific stripes, visual arts,
entertaining way of teaching and Herbie is through current lengthy bidding
business and accounting,
learning! Adding technology such pushy—I
processes than school
districts.
environmentalThey
sciences, writing and
as an educational video game still need can also keep the educators
journalism, the humanities, health care,
where students compete against to ask my appraised as to the needs of
building trades, etc. Back in my day we
Can you
Ahem…Lev,
industry.
The
arts would
question.
each other is an excellent way for
didn’tneed
have the multi-media
makeLois Lane
Bobchampions
Bartley also,
however
How
would thethat we have now. We
technologies
students to learn and have some
This
guy
funding
mechanisms
would
need
to teaching methods
education
Wall
Street
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you
prepare
should
useJanet
enriched
fun. HS Editor
Williams
be different
in
some
cases.
be
thetomust
workforce
Herbie Shrek entertaining?
reach aEd.
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diversity
of students.
Testing
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Pixar Entertainment
great fun
of tomorrow?
at a
party…
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Gagne
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consequences of education R.
similar
to those on
the job. Pay for appropriate behavior, like in a token
Colleges need
students
know
howgrade
to learn
think, rather than
economy.
Students
couldwho
reach
a new
by and
earning
students
who can
temporarily
memorize
Individual
attention
enough overall
money
in a lower
grade. information.
Advancement
to
of amentors,
and
challenges
given
at
the
time
the
student
is
ready
for
higher grade increases your pay rate. During the
them,
duringyear,
a “zone
of proximal
development”
will create
those thinkers.
academic
students
could spend
their
pay
smallMy
Why,
of for
course!
conditions of learning can work for any subject or
Colleges
will
need
to
test
more
authentically,
not
just
with
paper and
things from the school store, but only withenvironment.
the school’s Using
the first, verbal information will be helpful in
pencil
tests for
entrance
The
system based
will need to start most
currency.
That
way all requirements.
students are on
a
system
learning new terminology of the job or in a new class in college. Using
intensively
in the lowest
grades
first,
system will
change with
on
merit. Negative
behavior
would
notso
bethe
rewarded;
if itskills
your
intellectual
is valuable to your creating your role at your new
them.
The
higher
grades
will
receive
some
immersion
reaches a certain threshold, you would job
loseoryour
or in theseof the new material being covered in class.
yourjob
understanding
techniques,
but it won’t
feasible
to change
the entire system
your
seat in school.
This be
is the
way the
world
works.
Cognitive
Strategies are specific to each employee and student.
overnight.
These will determine how well you do your job and how well you can
Could you make
learn the new material being taught. Attitudes couldn’t be more reality
education more
based, this is innate in all of us and how we respond to one another.
Your attitude at work can make or break you, while your attitude
reality based, learn
Maybe
Lois Lane towardsBob
Bartley
school
can do the same. Lastly,
motorhe’s
skills are acquired over
the things we need to
HS Editor
Wall Street
your lifetime
and canJournal
be very important ifnot
youso
start working as a brain
Janet Williams
know for college or a
surgeon or even in construction. These
can be
applied to college in a
Herbie Shrek
crazy
after
Ed.
Testing
Serv
job?
reality situation such as music or art class, even
in a biology lab.
Pixar Entertainment
all.
•B.F. Skinner?
•Robert Gagne?
•Lev Vigotsky?
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