The SchoolWorks Collection by Black/MacPhail

Author:Black/MacPhail
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

Just the fact of having been teacher originated, an assignment or project would begin to lose its authenticity because only the student himself knows his needs and values. If by some stroke of luck, a teacher’s work zeroes in on the real needs and values of a student, it will probably not meet needs and values of all the students in the classroom. The classroom has become much too diverse.

“What if the work was authentic in regard to its product? What if the students worked on a real problem to develop a real solution that would impact their school community or community at large?”

First, the student would actually have to care about the problem. But certainly this would be authentic work and authentic assessment. Every educator has heard of a situation where highly engaged students make a difference but these situations, unfortunately, are few and far between. In the present age of increasing class sizes, expanding curricula, burgeoning state standards, mushrooming state testing, dwindling resources in time and funding and a multitude of other factors, these highly authentic and engaging situations are nearly impossible to implement and become more impossible with each new test, standard, funding cut, etc.

The ideas of Wiggins, Schlechty, and the rest should not be abandoned and work can be more authentic in regard to teaching important behaviors. The real needs of students, and everyone else, are Glasser’s four psychological needs and what students value most are the means of meeting those needs in the most satisfying way, hence the productive learning behaviors. A skill-based approach to curriculum with the simultaneous emphasis on the Glasser needs will produce the most authentic experience that education can provide to students; improving the quality and satisfaction of their lives currently and in the future. The Functional Learning System of the SchoolWorks Collection can do it.

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