Welcome!

• Explain progress on Action Research and Curricular Unit..
  • "How is it coming so far...?"

• The public education system
  • School district PPT
    • Basic skills accountability as determined by state multiple choice exams
      • NCLB, API/AYP, PI schools
      • Benchmarks, Edusoft, using data
      • "PLN" and standardization
      • End of tenure?
  • Alternatives
    • Project-based curriculum with collaboration and integration of content areas focusing on critical thinking skills:
      • A 21st century "Information Age," not 19th century "Industrial Age, model...
      • False promise of standardized tests which don't test what we need...
      • Too much preocupation with "standards...
      • Training/pretending young people are "mini-professors"...
      • No "project-based" instruction...
      • Leaves Many students unengaged...
      • A "Bottom-up," rather than "top-down," model....
      • Politicians making policy without listening to teacher voices!

• The Wesleyan Quadrilateral
  • Discussion points
  • This will be a private, not public, document!

• Explain HW

Homework

• Wesleyan reflections emailed to professor
• Continue to collect data for Action Research Project
• Continue to work on Curricular Unit