You say you want this
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You say you want this...so then why are you doing that?
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Abigail is given plenty of worksheets to complete in class as well as a substantial amount of homework. She studies to get good grades, and her school is proud of its high standardized test scores. Outstanding students are publicly recognized by the use of honor rolls, awards assemblies, and bumper stickers. Abigail's teacher, a charismatic lecturer, is clearly in control of the class: students raise their hands and wait patiently to be recognized. The teacher prepares detailed lesson plans well ahead of time, uses the latest textbooks, and gives regular quizzes to make sure kids stay on track.
Schools Our Children Deserve by Alfie Kohn
What's wrong with this picture?
"There is a time to admire the grace and persuasive power of an influential idea, and there is a time to fear its hold over us. The time to worry is when the idea is so widely shared that we no longer even notice it, when it is so deeply rooted that it feels to us like plain common sense. At the point when objections are not answered anymore because they are no longer even raised, we are not in control: we do not have the idea; it has us."
Punished by Rewards by Alfie Kohn
When do we stop blaming the kids?
Can we admit:
•school can be improved
•to improve school, we need to
change school
We tend to parent the way we were parented,and taught the way we were taught.
If you never change your mind, why have one?
If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get
what you’ve always gotten.-Anthony Robbins
Insanity is continuing to do the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
-Albert Einstein
Can we agree:
•we want children to become lifelong
learners
It ain’t what we don’t know that gets us
into trouble... it’s what we know for sure
that just ain’t so.-Mark Twain
However beautiful the strategy,you should occasionally look at the
results.-Winston Churchill
We need school to look a little less like school
What if kids who hated school became teachers?
homeworkgrading
rewardspunishment
discipline
hand raisingmultiple choice
honours
competition
testing
lecturing
standardization
lesson planning
curriculum
The more you use power to try and controlpeople, the less real influence you’ll
have on their lives.
The hardest kids to like are the oneswho need us the most
What has made you feel so bad in
your life that you feel someone
has to share your pain?-Sean Grainger
Grades cause an emotional reaction -
either positive or negative.
Feedback causes you to think, which is reflective learning.
-Dylan William
Reducing children to a test score is
the worst form of identity theft we
could commit in schools.-Steven Covey
Never grade students while they are still learningsomething and, even more important, do not
rewardthem for their performance.
-Alfie Kohn
A mark or a grade is an inadequate reportof an in accurate judgement by a biasedand variable judge of the extent to which
a student has attained an indefiniteamount of material.
-Paul Dressel
Students should experience their successes and failures not as reward and punishment
but as information.-Jerome Bruner
Every rubric I have ever seen involves the useof a fixed measurement scale.
Gather ------> Share
Collecting information doesn’t require tests,
and sharing that information doesn’trequire grades.
-Alfie Kohn
We must constantly remind ourselves that
the ultimate purpose of evaluation is to
enable students to evaluate themselves.
-Art Costa
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge
a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it
will live its whole life believing it is stupid.
-Albert Einstein
A correct answer on a test does not necessarilysignal understanding, and a wrong answer does
not necessarily signal an absence of understanding.
The bane of reducing learning to a symbolis that it inevitably overvalues whatever
can be quantified and undervalueswhat cannot
Not everything that counts can be countedand not everything that can be counted
counts.-Albert Einstein
There is a big difference between measuring what we value and valuing what we measure.
Learning should be done in a contextand for a purpose.
The passion of learning is not something youhave to inspire kids to have; it’s something
you have to keep from extinguishing.
A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to its job.
Why waste time proving over and over how great
you are, when you could be getting better?
-Carol Dweck
gaofen dineng
gaokao
zhuangyyuan
zero sum
Success should never be artificiallyscarce for an arbitrary few.
Competition is for the strong.Public Education is for everyone.
See the problem?
Peers become obstacles to your own success
We can teach kids about competition withoutimmersing them in it.
If we simply reconcile to the status quo and spend
all our time getting our children to accomodatethemselves to it and play the game, then
nothingwill change and they will have to do the same
withtheir children. As someone once said, realism corrupts; absolute realism corrupts absolutely.Alfie Kohn
The most important attitude that can be formedis that of a desire to go on learning.
If we want to make things better for ourchildren, we need to start questioning what
we consider to be the obvious.
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