Overhauling the Transmission Model
May 27, 2022
10:00AM to 12:00PM
Date/Time
Date(s) - 27/05/2022
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Join us for an instructive and relevant workshop presented by Alfie Kohn, a leader of the “ungrading” movement to learn what it means to create a learning-centred classroom and campus.
A university committed to being truly learning-centred is one whose instructors find the courage to transcend a traditional model in which a “bunch o’ facts” is transmitted to students as if they were empty receptacles. Often, the tacit message is: “Read what I tell you, listen to me lecture, memorize material for the tests, and I’ll reward you with a good grade.”
Alfie Kohn will build on his keynote address about grades and assessment by inviting us to think of learning as a collaborative process of constructing meaning. The implications for our practice are both unsettling and exciting: It entails questioning the value, not only of grades, but also of exams, lectures, and syllabi that are produced before instructors have even met their students. The alternatives include authentic assessment, active learning, and a curriculum created with students rather than just for them.
About the Speaker:
Alfie Kohn has been described by Time magazine as America’s “most outspoken critic of education’s fixation on grades and test scores.” He is an independent scholar who has written 14 books and hundreds of articles about education, human behaviour, and parenting. Among those books: Punished by Rewards, The Schools Our Children Deserve, Unconditional Parenting, and What Does It Mean to Be Well Educated?
Kohn’s essays have appeared in the Review of Educational Research, the Chronicle of Higher Education, New York Times and Macleans. Kohn speaks widely to educators, researchers and parents; he has been a featured presenter at many university schools of education and a keynote speaker at numerous education conferences. Kohn lives in the Boston area. To learn more about Alfie Kohn visit www.alfiekohn.org.
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