Open Equal Free is the organization I will be interning with this summer. They have a few different projects. I’ll be writing lesson plans for Teach Buzz.
More on all that later.
The Baccalaureate and Graduation ceremonies at PC are incredibly amazing and inspiring. I hope I will have some friends and family with me when I’m doing it all in 6 months!!
Somehow I’m the only employee in the Admissions Office with a birthday in May… Since they do a birthday party every month this month is explicitly MY birthday party. Which means this month’s coordinator is sending me emails asking me what time is good for me, whether I like cake or pie, if I have any dietary restrictions, and oh what the heck, it’s your birthday, what’s your favorite kind of pie
Haha!
In my authentic assessment class we have had to make sample tests for various kinds of assessments. When we were learning about selected response assessment (e.g. multiple choice tests, true/false, matching) I made my test on making selected response assessments… ha.
I’ll be administering the test in class tomorrow as part of a final assignment. The corresponding mini lesson is a jeopardy review of creating selected response assessments.
Check it out!
I was nominated as an outstanding member of the student body! The award ceremony is tomorrow afternoon.
And Thursday I have an interview for a Resident Assistant position.
This is my narrative evaluation for my block course, Experiential Education and Expeditionary Learning Practicum.
I was meeting with my faculty mentor today after class. She is very involved in the Consortium for Innovative Environments in Learning- a consortium of colleges including Prescott College, Pitzer College, Evergreen State… She mentioned a budding effort by the gov’t to subject colleges and universities to high stakes testing, like high schools, wherein standardized tests would be federally mandated, and federal funding for schools would be based on test scores and graduation rates (read: bad, bad news). She described to me how she and the rest of CIEL have been watching the development of that movement very closely since it first arose a few years back and how they’ve been all over it, keeping it at bay. I immediately visualized this scene from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 and all I could do was giggle with shameless glee. This lady, Gret Antilla, is totally awesome like Professor McGonagall and she reminds me a lot of Helen Adessa (read: very good and cool).
oh my gosh- high stakes testing = Voldemort!!! and we’re gonna win!!!!!!!!!!
Also Mom wanted to post this TED talk here. I haven’t gotten around to watching it yet, but I intend to!
Derek Cabrera -
If you haven’t seen this TED talk yet, I thought you might find it interesting! (Dr. Derek Cabrera is an internationally recognized expert in metacognition (thinking about thinking), epistemology (the study of knowledge), human and organizational learning, and education.)
In my Academic Activism class we write weekly reflection journals drawing connections to topics from class to something in our lives (a news article we saw, a conversation with a friend, the time I was in prison….jk).
We’re in a section studying the prison industrial complex and the prison abolition movement. All of my reflections have been connecting to some education topic… that’s the interdisciplinary nature of Prescott College!
I thought of this clip from Waiting for Superman (which I have yet to see all of). The piece I am talking about begins at 4:30. It’s crazy…
