Monthly Archives: December 2012

More from the article on British history classes: Progressive educators tend to cast skills and knowledge as a dichotomy, when in reality they are a sequence, and knowledge must come first. Trying to exercise historical skills such as source analysis … Continue reading →

“Progressive” education has apparently deeply infected British schools too, with the stupid projects replacing actually asking kids to learn much of anything. Consider this article about how history classes are conducted in Britain: Instead of learning through listening to teachers … Continue reading →

That’s the argument of this post: Here is a Geography lesson that Ofsted praise (from Learning to make a world of difference, p.36). Two pupils, in role, acted as newsreaders during an introductory simulation of a newscast. This used a … Continue reading →

Here’s a theory from a commenter at the Core Knowledge blog: In my district there is a feedback form which administrators use when they walk through a classroom. The administrator attempts to identify and mark what level of Bloom’s the … Continue reading →

From here: My principal happens to think that projects/posters are creative and a necessary part of the educational process. I did not fully understand the need for the projects, but set out to assign something that would involve research and … Continue reading →

From here: I found your post very interesting because it seems to me that my 7th and 10th graders are doing more “poster type” projects than I ever did at that level. My 7th grade daughter recently spent over eight … Continue reading →

From here: To the above I would add that postermania is a direct result of the authentic assessment element of classroom pedagogy and is related to the idea that projects are much more descriptive of student learning than the oft … Continue reading →

From here: It’s not just posters and computers. When my daughter was in Honors Chemistry class in 10th or 11th grade they were learning about the chemistry term: mole. So, guess what they did. They had a party on “National … Continue reading →