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Jejak Panda Terima Kasih Sudah Kunjungin Blog Ini ceme online terbaik -->             “Frankly, I’m amazed by the number of educators whose opposition to standardized tests and standardized curricula mysteriously fails to extend to standardized in-class assessments.”               That’s Alfie Kohn in 2006, in what’s become one of the best known critiques of rubrics.             I am not as harsh a critic of rubrics as Kohn is.   But I am inclined, like Chris Gallagher, to prefer descriptive rubrics, student-created rubrics, or individualized rubrics designed collaborately between teacher and student that are specific to each assignment.             But I like Kohn’s point about standardization, which I think is even more relevant now than it was when he wrote that article.   Collectively, we are so resistant to standardized testing and standardized evaluation of our teaching, but then why are we comfortable with standardized rubrics?    

Jejak Panda Selamat Datang Lagi Di Blog Ini bandar ceme terpercaya             We have fights in our home about screen time and Minecraft, but on the whole our kids don’t spend too much time on screens.   (Amy would prefer even less, but she grew up watching almost no TV except Little House on the Prairie ).   But between Screen Free Week this week and the gradual return of daylight (if not warmth), it’s been nice to see our kids spending so much time outdoors or with their noses buried in books.             Elsa began spring soccer last week.   Practices are Tuesday and Thursday late afternoons, so it’s been a little chilly.   Amy brings her to practice because I teach till 4:45, but I go pick her up.   This past Tuesday was sunny and relatively warm, so I sat in the bleachers beneath big white clouds moving swiftly across the sky, and more or less read my new book, The Orphan Master’s Son , which won the Pulitzer in 2013.   I looked around at the green grass of t

Jejak Panda Kembali Lagi Bertemu Di Situs Kesayangan Anda situs bandar ceme Last week was the selesai week in schools for the student teachers and graduate student interns.   Elsa had a young woman named Sara Riley in her second grade class this semester who ran writing workshop.   Elsa adored Miss Riley, and upon Sara’s departure, Elsa wrote her a very sweet letter. Here’s an excerpt:   “Dear Ms. Riley, Thank You For Everything You’ve Done For Our Class And Our teachers. … You Are One Of Those People Evreybody Can Trust All The Time—A Sweet, Wise Person (And Beatiful !) … Sara Riley A Beatiful Wonderful Name Sara Riley And I Don’t Want To Let Go Of That Lovley Name And Person. I Don’t Want IT To Be Tomarow But That’s The Way it’s gonna go So You Can Lead Your Life and We’ll All Be Crying To This One Crazy, Beatiful, Lovley, Sweet, Funny, Loving Lady Named Sara Riley. … Thank You The Most For Being My And Our Teacher. Bye-Bye Love Your Swe

Jejak Panda Selamat Datang Kembali Di Blog Kesayangan Anda bandar ceme             Virginia Woolf famously wrote that “on or about December 1910, human character changed,” referring to the shift toward Modernism.             I’m not going to make nearly so grandiose a pronouncement, but we enter this new school year with many changes—some of them dramatic—to the educational landscape, especially here in Connecticut but also across the US.             For one thing, we have a new Commissioner of Education, Dianna Wentzell, who, although she served under Stefan Pryor in the Malloy administration, does have the advantage of having actually been an educator.   In fact, she spent more than a decade teaching, and even taught in an urban district.   It’s unfortunate that widely supported legislation to make teaching experience a requirement for the position of Commissioner of Education was vetoed by Governor Malloy and that the democrats in the legislature lac

Jejak Panda Hai.. Bertemu Lagi Di Website Kesayangan Anda situs bandarq When I was an undergraduate, I loved being an English major because I could do my school work just by taking a novel and going to read it outside somewhere.   I had a few favorite spots, like the courtyard outside the Benton Museum with its tall oaks, fountain, and statue of Bacchus, or this hidden courtyard outside the Young Building which always smelled of the katsura trees planted there. In grad school in California, there were several great coffee shops where I used to love to read, especially this place called Café Mokka.   I’d drink way too much coffee, read, and write letters to people back east. In the early years of my teaching career, I used to assign tasks to myself, mostly to fill in gaps.   One winter I read all the Shakespeare plays I had never read, about twenty-five in all, even Cymbeline and Coriolanus . Later, I created an elective called the Contemporary American Novel, a