redefining success in the age of accountability

in the Age of Accountability

Dean ShareskiMLS Summit 2012

Toronto, ONNovember 7, 2012

Redefining Success

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This is me

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Premise

Premise✴ Describe not Prescribe


✴ ideas and research are only good useful if you own them



✴ You Make the Connections




✴ learner first, teacher second




✴ learner first, teacher second

✴ We're Grade 4's on the Playground (@ijohnpederson)

“...there is no word for

"accountability" in Finnish.”

“Accountability is what's left when you

take out responsibility.”

“I wish we could stop using the word

"accountable" and instead talk about "responsible". It

would make all the difference.”

Things you never see

“Distrust is an expensive vice”

Dave Weinberger “Too Big To Know”

If we create cultures of trust and sharing,

accountability is built in, not contrived or imposed,

it just is.

I believe that everyone should write in public. Get a blog....Do it every day. Every single day. Not a diary, not fiction, but analysis. Clear, crisp, honest writing about what you see in the world. Or want to see. Or teach (in writing). Tell us how to do something.

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Can I find

your best work

online?

Can I find

your best work

online?

any of

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JOY




With regards to creating a video like that do you:

With regards to creating a video like that do you:A. Do it because it's not only fun but likely does address some curricular outcomes but you might have to look them up later. Fingers crossed.


B. Do it and to heck with the outcomes, doing joyful things with students is important.



C. Do it but perhaps as an extra-curricular activity because you're not sure where it fits with a robust curriculum but still think it's important.



C. Do it but perhaps as an extra-curricular activity because you're not sure where it fits with a robust curriculum but still think it's important.

D. Not do it at all.

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Feel-Bad EducationThe Cult of Rigor and the Loss of Joyby: Alfie Kohn

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Feel-Bad EducationThe Cult of Rigor and the Loss of Joyby: Alfie Kohn


I’m appearing to accept an odious premise—namely, that joy must be justified as a means to the end of better academic performance. Not so:

It’s an end in itself.





Why are our schools not places of joy?

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wonder




Be aware of wonder.

Remember the little seed in the styrofoam cup:

The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.

Do our students come to school to wonder and be

awed?

COMMUNITY




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Mind Your Own Business

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Tell that to Chris Avenir

Tell that to Chris AvenirRyerson University sites 3 reasons for the case against him.

1.Learning should be hard.

2.There is no structure of regulation for online behavior and that makes it incompatible with academic work.

3.It is our job to protect academic integrity from any threat.

i.e. Unless learning is hard and is directed by others, it fails to meet the standard for academic rigor.

My Learning Project

My Teaching Staff

What did you learn from others? What did you contribute to the

learning of others?

assessment

“This push on tests,” he told me, “is missing out on some serious parts of what it means to be a successful human.”

“This push on tests,” he told me, “is missing out on some serious parts of what it means to be a successful human.”

“...learning is hard. True, learning is fun, exhilarating and gratifying — but it is also often daunting, exhausting and sometimes discouraging. . . . To help chronically low-performing but intelligent students, educators and parents must first recognize that character is at least as important as intellect.”

Gritindomitable courage, toughness, or resolution

Playing to Strengths

and Interests

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“Taught me to examine my work critically”

“enabled me to focus on learning”


“enabled me to focus on learning”

“I wasn’t comfortable assessing myself”


“Being good at school is a fine skill if you intend to do school forever. For the rest of us, being good at school is a little like being good at Frisbee.” Seth Godin

Linchpin

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Dean Shareski

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