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Dr. Cathy Grace recommends using student portfolios as an alternative to standardized testing for young children. A student portfolio is an individualized record of a student's work and learning progress, collected collaboratively by the student and teacher. It includes samples that demonstrate skills used in real-world contexts. The portfolio is evaluated against standards and shared with parents to holistically assess a child's development over time rather than through once-a-year testing.
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The Seven Rʼs of a Quality Curriculum
Ron Ritchhart
Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education
To teach for understanding, teachers must be able to identify the big
ideas of their subject and know what it is they truly want students to
understand. They also must engage students in understanding
performances, that is, opportunities for actively building personal
understanding, and provide meaningful feedback on learning as it
unfolds. It is at this intersection of big ideas, understanding goals,
performances, and assessment feedback that curriculum lives, in what I
call the enacted curriculum.
Over the past fifteen years I have worked with teachers exploring the
enacted curriculum of understanding. During that time I’ve had the
opportunity to reflect on the qualities that make an activity, a unit, a
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deeper understanding. Seven common criteria emerge: rigorous,
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reflective. I present these here as guidelines for the planning, enacting,
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Rigorous
What does it mean for a curriculum itself to be rigorous? For a task or a
lesson? Rather than think of difficulty, I think in terms of affordances. A
rigorous curriculum embodies and affords students opportunities to
develop a deeper understanding and not just show what they already
know. Too often curricula state carefully defined objectives that put an
unintentional cap on students’ understanding and obscure the big ideas of
the discipline, leading to superficial coverage. A rigorous curriculum
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students’ understanding beyond a minimal outcome.
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students further their learning of big disciplinary ideas through this task?
How does this task launch the learning but avoid truncating it?” I also
ask myself if students can do a particular task without understanding, by
merely walking through the steps or repeating back information. If so,
that performance doesn’t offer the rigor of understanding.
Real
Disciplinary learning can be thought of as a process by which individuals
gradually increase their participation in communities of practice. As
such, a curriculum that builds understanding must look to engage
students in authentic disciplinary activities so that students’ classroom
activities mirror the real work of adults in the field. Rather than learning
about math, science, writing, history, and so on, students must become
mathematicians, scientists, authors, and historians to build true
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- 1. ASSESSINGYOUNG CHILDREN BY: DR. CATHY GRACE
- 2. Dr. Cathy Grace’sarticle illustratesthe importance of usingcommonsense whenassessing youngchildren.Herrecommendedmethodsaddressthe dilemmabetweenthe growingemphasisof standardizedtestingandthe beliefthatchildren’sdevelopmentis,“…continuousandongoing”, and, “…that other methods may be more accurate than the once-a-year testing event.” Dr. Grace suggests the implementation of a student portfolio. In this individualized plan, students create a tangible record of their learning progress. Teacher and student collaborate to collect samples of work that bring together knowledge and skills used in the real world with, “…the goals of the educational program…” Elements of the student portfolio include art work, writing samples and photographs of cooperative work and building structures. The teacherinformsthe studentabouthow the workis evaluatedagainstastandard. Educator and pupil discusswhatworkwill orwill notbe includedinthe portfolio. Dr.Grace believesthatchildren as youngas four yearsoldare capable of thistask. Studentsare encouragedtodemonstrate their understandingof thisprocessbyexplainingittoothers. Finally, the portfolio is shared with parents at conference time. The decision is also made whether to release the portfolio at the end of the school year, or to carry it over for subsequent school years for a cumulative record. I found this article unique and informative. While standardized testing has a purpose, I like the idea of ongoing, meaningful progress for children. I say this because I realize some students do not test as well as others, and so the “testing session” is not an accurate reflection, but more of a random “snapshot” of perceived knowledge. In other words, the testing criteria, while important, can only by design test for but a fraction of the knowledge contained in
- 3. anyone’s mind. The testing process is stressful, lengthy (for a day), and temporary. This may lead to a tendency to “teach to the test”. Dr. Grace’s ideas provide for students whose strengths lie in a long term framework. I admire Dr. Grace’s apparent dedication to the learning process, which can be difficult to measure. I like that there seems to be much student involvement in the model she presents. As with many things, I think students will benefit more from something they thoroughly understand and of which they play a major role.
- 4. REFERENCES Grace, Dr. Cathy: Assessing Young Children www.pbs.org/teachers/earlychildhood/articles/assessing.html