We need a short break from all the SGB stuff. Mark offers that and thank you Mark: Hi Ben, I thought you might be amused by these two links featuring Kurt Vonnegut and his Masters thesis: http://aerogrammestudio.com/2013/03/26/the-shapes-of-stories-by-kurt-vonnegut/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP3c1h8v2ZQ Best, Mark
Note that James Hosler’s article on SBG has been renamed. I’ve had a lot of emails from teachers wondering where it went. I just changed the name to SBG 1. Sorry about the confusion. I’m glad we’re reading so closely though. We have to on this topic right now.
This is the second in a series of four articles by James on the SBG thread; the other two will appear tomorrow: Ben asked to establish the problem that standards-based grading solves. Why all the bother to change stuff? Good question; I’ll give some thoughts here. (I’ll try to keep it brief. Of course this
This from James is very important: Ben, I finally had time to sit down and write out my approach to standards-based grading. I have written the first two parts so far, with one more to follow in time. There should be enough, though, to make my point. Part 1 describes the standards themselves: http://jameshosler.blogspot.com/2013/03/my-foreign-language-standards-friendly.html Part
Activer topics now are: SBG ELA/ELL Class Competitions Videos So I think we can’t have all three of those going at the same time – too much. I would like to go full blast on SBG right now and table the other two for at least a few days. Four SBG articles, all by James but
