Two Teachers On Teaching: Episode Three, featuring Laurie Weckesser in a discussion involving class size, standards-based instruction, and teachers letting go of the status quo. This one clocks in at 11 and a half minutes and is 2.7MB. Ambient noise abounds on this one, so I’ll have to be more careful of my microphone placement next time.
“As we move towards a standards based curriculum, we’re looking at an outside measure of what skills students should have, whereas before, there were no guidelines at all for what you should teach.”
Related Links and Information
- California Department of Education Standards & Frameworks
- The class size at Silver Creek High School for the 2005-2006 school year has been loaded at 33-34 students, as opposed to 30-31 for the 2004-2005 school year.
- Silver Creek High School: School Accountability Report Card (SARC) for the 2002-2003 school year: Full Report, Short Report
- East Side Union High School District – I can’t find anything like the Welcome Center we discuss, but there is a parent resources. page
On Thursday, July 21, Laurie and I got together to record another edition of Two Teachers On Teaching. It’s November and I’ve finally gotten around to editing that conversation. Like my meeting with Rushton, we talked for over an hour. This is only the first 15 minutes of our conversation, with very little edited out. This one runs a bit longer than I’d like, but I simply couldn’t edit anything else out. Yet again, there’s plenty more of this conversation in the archives.