Disconnect: Common Core, Content, and Context | 21st Century Collaborative - 0 views
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Maybe it is because standardization in some ways is demeaning to educators. They should be the designers of learning and orchestrators of creative curriculum implementation and student ownership of learning.
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Irene Watts-Politza on 25 Jun 12When faculty develop their own courses it promotes autonomy and independence. The disconnect between SLOs and course development has already been discovered b at least one coursemate (Joan).
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Testing data should be used by students themselves to improve learning choices and reflect upon the learning experience.
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In my mind the problem with State and National tests is they support a belief that we can create a standardization of the learning process. Standardization of learning is what I am against. The belief that somehow it is possible to standardize thinking, knowledge construction, aha moments, innovation, learning, creativity, and even teachers themselves.
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