Before publishing some of the information that I am now getting from Claire (see previous article), in order to keep things orderly on the PLC and more importantly to allow some who haven’t been able to keep up with the mid-May thread on Authentic Assessment, I would like to publish some of what Claire wrote during that time.
These are critical articles for those of us who are planning to ride the Change in Assessment and Curriculum train all the way through to a new way of communicating what we do to administrators in the fall.
Yes. A new way of communicating what we do to administrators. And, I might add, an honest one, one that will allow us to finally ditch the old whiny ass pathetic sentence that for years we all have been offering in twisted groveling ways to our administrators, which stops this summer, “Well, I don’t really teach in a way that can fit into what you want in terms of a curriculum but gosh it’s hard to write a TPRS curriculum along your guidelines but maybe you guys there in the data department and all you colleagues down the hallway whose curriculum docs are the tables of contents in your books, I mean, I know I’m weird and all, but hey like maybe, just maybe, even if it badly conflicts with your docs because it is based on actual research but let’s not go there because this is already getting to be a pretty nervous sentence already, maybe, just maybe, you will accept my paltry offerings to your vocabulary collecting docs that are so well written and I have no hope of every submitting anything as glorious but I have to give you something right so please maybe if you just accept my efforts here you will like me and let me keep my job. Please please please! Here it is. Here’s what I wrote. I know it’s not any good but I have to say that I just don’t teach in a way that allows me to submit to your highness (let’s face it, you are high on data) and so oh me oh my what are we going to do this chasm between us is just so wide!”
Or something like that. Here is the review of the mid-May material form Claire, in preparation for the late-May and as-long-as-it-takes slugfest that some of us are, tired from another year in the classroom but with full faith and hope that we need to do this now, are getting ready for.
(No blame if you don’t put on the armor for this particular battle – it is going to literally be smash mouth football out on the playing field in the next six months. Anybody who wants a refund on their $5 monthly membership here for May and June please let me know and I will do it.)
