In recent months I’ve thinking about Rosebery & Warren’s (2008) concept of science talks. In addition to modeling science talk for my own students by doing it with kids, I’ve been trying it out in an undergraduate physical science course I co-teach with a chemist. The students had been given the assignment to come up [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Standards and accountability'
Teaching Science through Conversation/What is Inquiry? What are productive ways to use students’ ideas for instruction?
December 5th, 2010 · No Comments · College teaching, Inquiry science teaching, Standards and accountability
Tags: Ann Rosebery & Beth Warren·Roland Tharp and Ronald Gallimore
Standards-Based Education is a Scam
December 5th, 2010 · No Comments · Politics and education, Standards and accountability, Testing
There is no research basis for so-called standards-based education. There is not one shred of evidence that demonstrates the effectiveness of many of the practices which I see in schools as I visit student teachers, not one study of the benefits of students knowing which standard they are “on.” Yet every teacher I talk with [...]