Existential Questions in Education

 CHAPTER 12: Practices that “Lift the Veil” Think about your professional career. How Have your supervisors made the evaluation of your work transparent, or opaque?How has that transparency, or opacity, affected your feelings or trust, empowerment, motivation, and how you did your job? How could you have gotten more clarity about your supervisor’s expectations, and how would greater common understanding between the two of you change your feelings and your work? Draft a rubric for an upcoming assessment or select one you’ve already created and assess it against the rubric for rubrics. What are ways that your rubric could be more transparent and equitable? Post your answer to the questions above in the comment section here by clicking "Enter you comment" >  choose "name/URL"  in the drop down menu  and add your name before typing your comment and clicking publish .  Comment on two peers' posts by clicking "reply" > choose "name/URL" in th...

  CHAPTER 10:   Practices that value knowledge, not environment or behavior (Cont.) Look back at Tangela and Isabelin Chapter 4. If summative assessment were the only element in the grade, what grade would each receive? What are the implications? What message do we send each of them? How might it change how they and their caregivers think about each student’s progress? How might it change how each would respond moving forward Ask students about why they copy homework, or what gets in the way of students completing homework. What is more important to you– that students do as much homework as they can themselves, or that they copy it so that they get the points? What would need to change to explicitly communicate this priority? Look at the gradebook for one of your classes. Compare students’ test or summative assessment scores with their homework scores. For which students are their summative assessments higher than their homework scores? If a student learned the material, how m...