We speak with Adam Grumbach, social studies program coordinator of the New York Performance Standards Consortium, and Naseem Haamid, a law student who attended Fannie Lou Hamer High School. We discuss inquiry based learning, Performance Based Assessment Tests, Habits of Mind, and self-directed, interdisciplinary portfolios, as alternatives to standardized-test driven curricula.
Overview
00:00-00:54 Intros
00:54-02:04 NYS Performance Standards Consortium
02:04-03:54 Potential effect on Consortium of elimination of Regents exams as graduation requirement
03:54-05:09 Inquiry- and literacy-based education
05:09-06:27 Creation of curricula
06:27-07:39 Students’ input into what they focus on
07:39-10:54 Naseem’s transition from a test-oriented school to Fannie Lou Hamer HS (FLH HS)
10:54-10:39 The most valuable things about FLH HS for Naseem
10:39-14:31 Transition from FLH HS to more traditional college and law school classes
14:31-17:21 Performance based assessment tests (PBATs) and other assessments
17:21-19:26 Rubrics
19:26-20:09 Grading of PBATs
20:09-24:45 Portfolios
24:45-28:25 College and career planning
28:25-32:56 Selecting and supporting teachers
32:56-35:35 Lessons for teachers elsewhere from the Consortium
35:35:36:31 “This is what education should be like”
36:31-38:15 Distinctive way Consortium approaches introduction to post-secondary careers
38:15- Outro
Transcript
Click here to see the full transcription of this episode.
References
Soundtrack by Poddington Bear
We welcome back Zoe Weil, president and co-founder of the Institute for Humane Education, to speak about her recent Psychology Today column on the...
Amy interviews Leo Ackley, who emigrated to Finland in the 1972. He taught art, history of architecture, design, and engineering in Finnish schools for...
Dr. Don Siler, a researcher and inservice teacher educator, himself a former high school dropout, discusses how art classrooms invite students to be themselves,...
