Through Steve Barkley Ponders Out Loud, Stephen Barkley regularly shares insights and challenges us to reach further in our quest for excellence in education. In a recent blog posting, Barkley reminds us that after identifying expected outcomes or goals, teachers need to consider what would students DO and EXPERIENCE to develop those outcomes or achieve those goals. Learning activities should be planned that will result in the identified student performance.
Instructional leaders should be looking for (and support) those kind of learning activities!
Barkley points to a recent Education Week (Vol.30 No 19) that had three articles directly related to “what students are experiencing and doing”. That only 1-2% of students at the, 4th, 8th, and 12th grade score at the advanced level in science on the NAEP begs the question, "What would students have to do and experience to increase the success rate in science?" Test construction focuses on problem solving and applied sciences with a greater emphasis on “what you can actually do with your knowledge, and not just how many words and equations you stored in your brain.”
What does that mean we should be looking for in Science classrooms?
http://blogs.plsweb.com/ Steve Barkley, Executive Vice-President of Performance Learning Systems, Inc is quite renowned in the educational consultant arena. His personable, yet scientifically-research based presentations are not only captivating, but are always directly on target to impact positive change in learning.
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