In this issue, the Resource Bin draws on ideas that are highlighted in Food for Thought and Ellin's Corner that pertain to "learning from student work."   These references link to resources that address student work from a variety of angles. 

 

 

The Philadelphia Education Fund: Guidelines for Looking at Student Work -

http://www.philaedfund.org/slcweb/guideli.htm

 

In this overview, the Philadelphia Education Fund has provided guidelines in the area of looking at student work as a way of engendering a process of inquiry in teacher practice.  It runs through the process of looking collaboratively at student work and gives suggestions on how to document classroom observations.  You will also find a link to examples of student work with teacher commentary.

 

 

Looking at Student Work - http://www.lasw.org/

 

This web site is dedicated to sharing teachers' investigations into new ways of looking at student work.  Here you will find a collection of rationales for looking at student work and discussion of the ways in which teachers are learning from their students in order to inform their practice.  Included in the site are external resources, protocols (for looking together at student work), background information about the collaborative, and links to relevant research.

 

 

Coalition of Essential Schools: Looking Collaboratively at Student Work: An Essential Toolkit

http://www.essentialschools.org/pubs/horace/13/v13n02.html

 

Coalition of Essential Schools (CES) is a national network of schools who have in common the mission of "the re-invention of schooling through changes in practice based on CES principles."  This link will take you to an issue of Horace, the ongoing print and online medium of discourse about school reform, which specifically addresses looking at student work as a collective.  Included in this issue is a tuning protocol for looking at student work, discussion of a descriptive review of a child, and some information on the constructivist underpinnings of the work.

 

(The CES principles can be found here: http://www.essentialschools.org/aboutus/phil/10cps/10cps.html)