This is from Sabrina: Ben, I got an email from a former ESL professor of mine and she attached those two links to watch and remind us of …the magical power of music. It’s a great path to language learning, it’s academically challenging and fits with the common core’s new emphasis on oral development and […]
And this is the fourth of four substantial articles from James: Ben, this is the last e-mail I’ll send for the time being. Sorry for all the stuff, but I am really just feeling the flow and I have time because it’s spring break. Plus I would hate for the conversation to come to an
James continues: A few people have expressed concerns about how to keep a standards-based gradebook, especially if there is a school-wide policy of so many entries per week. Here’s my take. I wrote a detailed post on the practicalities of my standards-based gradebook a little while ago: http://jameshosler.blogspot.com/2012/11/making-powerschool-do-standards-based.html. What follows is my attempt to explain
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
I just heard on web radio that every day 7,000 students drop out of high school. If their desks were stacked up, it would be to a height of 16,000 feet, higher than all of our big peaks out here in Colorado. The stack of desks would be higher than twelve Empire State Buildings. We
This is good and I agree with Sabrina’s support of the idea that we need to bring in more video clips like the texting one she sent us a few weeks ago, especially at this time of year. Bonsoir tout le monde: Je vous fais parvenir une petite pub en français (courte, 40 secondes) au
For those interested, in San Diego at iFLT (July 9 – 12), I will be doing the morning sessions with real high school students from the San Diego area, but I have asked Carol for the chance to work with any of this group in the afternoons on everything we’ve been talking about all year. I just
Here is an article on public education: http://www.alternet.org/education/why-you-can-kiss-public-education-and-middle-class-goodbye
