Why teachers must not grade students
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The TEDx Zagreb talk about changes that need to be implemented into educational system to make it compatible with the change in the teacher-student relationship that is imminent.
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Why teachers must not grade students
- 1. WHY TEACHERS MUST NOT GRADE STUDENTS
- 2. THE SPEED OF CHANGE WITHIN ONE GENERATION
- 3. THE SOURCE OF KNOWLEGE NOT INDEXED? NOT PUBLISHED.
- 4. PEOPLE FORGET HOW IT'S ALWAYS BEEN DONE
- 5. ON THE SAME SIDE THE GRADE HAS TO GRADE THE TEACHER AND THE SYSTEM TOO
- 6. EACH ONE IS DIFFERENT LIFE IS NOT ONLY IN SCHOOL
- 7. THAT'S WHY TEACHERS MUST NOT GRADE STUDENTS Photo " L'information scolaire " by Robert Doisneau , Paris 1956 used with kind permission. Other artwork by Wikimedia or public domain.
Editor's Notes
- • The talk is about future: to look the future in the eyes you have to crouch as the future is max 1,40 meters high • The point of the talk is not that the students should be graded, but why the teachers are not those who should do the grading • They say that a picture is worth thousand words, this picture by Robert Doisneau is worth of a whole idea - the chalkboard pictured can easly be tablet PC. I shall not talk of a concepts of e-learning, game-based learning or similar buzzwords - I'll talk about how we need to change relationship in the system and how we can easly do it by implementing available technology.
- • The technological changes are followed by a change in a society that reflects use of that technology. Troughout the history the society change followed technology after a few generations, and that gap narrowed with every iteration. Wheel, printing press, television. • Todays generation is the one that live up more then one technological change and the society is run over. Established standards are obsolite.
- • The educational system is first to witness those changes in society because the users of technology ate the ultimate users of the education - the students • Traditional role of the teacher to be the source of the knowlege is lost, the textbooks are useless as the knowlege is more readly and more accurate availabe elsewhere • New role of the teacher is to be a guide, to teach credibility and scepticism - the scientific approach
- • The educational system, as any other in today's society, relies on the people who participate in it. The teachers will still be needed to teach, but their role will be fundamentally changed • It is easy to describe the technological system that can fully replace the teachers role in grading students - secure web interface, regular quizes with few dozen questions out of tens of thousend for every subjet in every class, full database of questions freely available on the web, updated regulary... It is relatively easy to adopt such system with available technology • The system should be used frequently and regulary, from the third grade (age of 8) on - so for the students it's the way this is done. The teachers have to adopt.
- • Implementation of such system has one very important effect on human relationship in the educational process - the one no ultimatum (or call it "rule") can effectivly make. If average grade of the grade in the class is taken, then this is the grade for the teacher in that class. We can also see how teachers rank on to another and how the educational system works - the average grade of all students. It is also imperative that we track every question - if we have an author of questions that noone can answer we need to get him out of the system etc. • With this we have both the teacher and the student on the same side, "against" the system - their "common enemy"
- • The grading system can be made as of "expirience points", or based on that and converted to regular grades by applying Gauss curve to the results • If there is a "minimal knowledge" requirement, that minimum must not be determinated by those in that field - minimal knowledge of mathematics should determine biology experts etc. The task of the experts is to make the field interesting for students to learn more then minimum • All other activities, unrelated to school must be implemented into XP model - skiing champ will receive points for that. Thus if school gives max 100 points of knowlege, we should recognize up to 100 more from other sources as relevant. The grade is of course given relative to other students in the generation. Teachers are also credited for out of school work with kids.
- • The teacher today is in the role of the fist of the educational system, the fist that grabs the student's neck and holds tight. Today the grade itself is both carrot and the stick, de facto useless, and we have the system that is subject of many criticism as been inadequate. If we have the same grade that grades both the student and the teacher, as well as the system itself, we will not get the perfect system right away but we will have ability to make relevant analysis and implement measures to improve it. We can and we should learn from the grades of our children.