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Ted Sizer

Ted Sizer. Essential Schools Movement. Sizer’s Background. Harvard Educated Headmaster Brown University – Professor and Dean Author Horace’s Compromise Horace’s School Horace’s Hope. Reacting to Society. Plethora of educating influences Response: offer everything or focus on core

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Ted Sizer

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  1. Ted Sizer Essential Schools Movement

  2. Sizer’s Background • Harvard Educated • Headmaster • Brown University – Professor and Dean • Author • Horace’s Compromise • Horace’s School • Horace’s Hope

  3. Reacting to Society • Plethora of educating influences • Response: offer everything or focus on core • “Shopping Mall High School”

  4. Sizer’s Thesis • Educate “the intellect and the character” • 3 Foci for Compulsory Education (Content) • Literacy • Numeracy • Civic understanding • Graduates should be able to… (Skills) • Teach themselves • Decent people • Disciplined thinking

  5. The State’s Role • Compel literacy, numeracy, and civic understanding • Minimal but maximal claims; limits of compulsion • State should NOT • Make people employable • Tell people how to spend time • Tell people what to be or who to become • Compel people to go to school once core is mastered • State should • Assist me • Persuade me

  6. How Do We Do This? • Curriculum Reforms • From coverage to core • Fewer subjects • 4 depts (p. 154) • Instructional Reforms • Inquiry – discovering answers • Coaching • Students express thinking • Fewer classes with more time; start where students are • Reach troubled kidd • Character Reforms • Basic democratic gov’t • Good of whole vs. good of individual • Stick to bill of rights – more just

  7. Discussion • Do you agree with Sizer’s big picture recommendations? • If yes, what would it mean for your future teaching? • If no, why is he wrong and what model of teaching is better? • What it would take to implement his reforms?

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