“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.

“There is this tie between confidence with topics in a classroom and that sense that ‘I have hope for doing interesting things in the future.’ If you lose the confidence, an awful lot of other things fall to the side, as well.”

Related Links

• JET Programme
• More information on HyperCard
• Seymour Papert’s book, The Children’s Machine

On Sunday, July 10, Rushton and I got together to record the first official podcast of Two Teachers On Teaching. We talked for about an hour and this podcast really only touches on the first 15 minutes of our discussion. There’s plenty more of this conversation in the archives.

“So, sit back, wait a little while for me to get a couple of these done, and I hope you enjoy the results.”

I spend about 3 minutes explaining my idea for this podcast as a way to provide a short introduction.