Let's develop a list of skills for students to use

An Continuing on-going online Conference (COOC).   SEE the note about JUNTOS

The following "List of Skills" appeared in a press release by the Mastery Transcript Consortium.  The press release can be found here

Search terms:  press release hawken no grades transcript cleveland plain dealer

Go to TINYURL.com/AListOfSkills for a folder of possible forms
For a form with BOXES, go to TINYURL.com/AListOfSkillsPDF


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TOPIC or CLAIM TO DISCUSS:  The Mastery Transcript will create a need for training. I think there are four areas of possible needs that will arise when the Mastery transcript is adopted by 150 private schools. The four needs are 
a) parent education, 
b) student education, 
c) teacher education and 
d) principal education. 
Each audience has a different set of introductions, but the essential tools are with us right now. 

We need to 
-- teach history backwards, 
-- we need a list of projects and examples of projects so that students know what a good project looks like and what a needs more work type of project looks like. 
-- We have the "how to make a free website" book. Now we just need the structure to be ready for these documents.

Question 1.  Is there an opportunity for us as a group and individually to spread the idea about the Mastery transcript? I think the answer is yes. But I look for your comments

Question 2 Are there opportunities or teachers that currently teach who could use a sheet of skills?  Download the sheets at TINYURL.com/ALISTOFSKILLS  and a specific sheet at TINYURL.com/AListOfSkillsPDF

Question 3. There is a list of eight general skill areas with subsets of how to set up the skills or examples of the skills. Could you look at that list and then give feedback about what is missing from the list or if there's a better wording for some of the sub skills?

Question 4. What do you think of the idea of mini-badges? Why does a student need to get all of the evidence at one school when there could be a self-badging process?  The students are asked to give evidence for the skill that they claim, and if they give enough evidence, why couldn't someone self-badge or "evaluate yourself" and say, "I have learned this badge. I have demonstrated the ability to persuade Skill 2f because I have 300,000 hits on my YouTube channel and that clearly shows that I know how to appeal to an audience. This is evidence that I have a good organization in my communication." So the push would be to have a parallel badging system so that while we're waiting for the Consortium to reveal their structure and recommendations, students can already be earning badges.

SEE TINYURL.com/CPPPScott for the "school should not hurt" pitch (presentation).

LET'S THINK ABOUT THIS... One of the core principles of the Consortium is that there are no standards that everybody has to use.   There will not be a standardized form or a standardized list of skills. So why not allow students to collect enough evidence and match their evidence to evidence on a rubric and compare their collection of evidence to an example of a student who has demonstrated good communication or good analysis or good collaboration, and then the student could just declare, "I now have a mini badge for this particular area I just need to accumulate 25 of these many badges and then I have a full badge demonstrating that I am a good communicator. There wouldn't be the same weight as a school issuing such a badge, but it would allow students who are not in a "List of Schools" type of school to create their own portfolio with badges so that their website looks like the website of a Mastery transcript. This would be a push to any school to see how easy it is to accumulate this information because students are generating the same information...from current work.

Send your comments to ManyPosters@gmail.com.  THANK YOU or text your comments to 954 693-6379  my google voice

TINYURL.com/NoGradesBlog is the link to this blogpost.
Let's spread this idea.  CLICK ON the video
We can update each other in this blog post on the progress of the spread of Scott Looney's idea...  as the YouTube views climb from 2000 to 2 million.