Now that @lsgibson.bsky.social has arrived here, maybe he's like to comment on the work he did with Peter Seixas and others on trying to design assessments of historial thinking. My research is on design of authentic assessment of citizenship competencies. I'll stop before I'm in that rabbit hole!
Teachers are to assess for and report on the growth of students' curricular competencies, rather than just what they might typically have done - knowledge and understanding of content, communication etc. This is then reported with a proficiency scale to grade 9. www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/e... 3/...
The curriculum has transversal or "core" competencies that are to be built in subject areas by having students "do" disciplinary thinking, what they call "curricular competencies". In Socials, they were written based on an HT framework. 2/...
It's a really interesting challenge. "Competency" in the literature entails a complex process of marshaling knowledge, skills and dispositions to be able to respond to a situation, BC's "concept based competency driven" curriculum as infographic: curriculum.gov.bc.ca/sites/curric... 1/...
Your clip of King Size was intriguing enough that I will commit to listening to the whole list before voting, but I can’t imagine not voting for The Pogues this Christmas.
In British Columbia we are now several years into the implementation of a new curriculum built on Peter Seixas' 6 historical thinking competencies. We no longer have provincial exams for these courses, but teachers are experiencing a learning curve in design of classroom assessments of competencies.
Interesting! I have heard of a lot of colleagues opting for this sort of assignment, but hadn’t read anything about how it went.
I’m socials education but couldn’t make it to Nashville. Hope you have a great conference!