The Control Sheet for Teaching and Learning

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=185 BGCOLOR="#003333" TEXT="#F7F7FF" background="03fb9c00dduajq.jpg"> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="70" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 76 WIDTH="66"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="76" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="66" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>The Control Sheet for Teaching and Learning</B></div> <div> <A HREF="id25.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Explanations"><U><B>Explanations</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id21.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Publications "><U><B>Publications </B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="ddddddd.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Readers Comments"><U><B>Readers' Comments</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id22.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="From the Catalogue"><U><B>From the Catalogue</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id27.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Control Sheet for Teaching and Learn"><U><B>The Control Sheet for Teaching and Learning</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Us"><U><B>Contact Us</B></U></A></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#FFFBF0" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>FairPlay Services and Publications</B></FONT>    |     <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="FairPlay Services and Publications"><U>home</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id25.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Explanations"><U>Explanations</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id21.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Publications "><U>Publications </U></A>   |   <A HREF="ddddddd.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Readers Comments"><U>Readers' Comments</U></A>   |   <B>The Control Sheet for Teaching and Learning</B>   |   <A HREF="id22.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="From the Catalogue"><U>From the Catalogue</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Us"><U>Contact Us</U></A></div> <div> The Control Sheet for Teaching and Learning</div> <div> No matter what you teach, you can design a qualtiy control sheet for it. FairPlay's document FP707, "Developing a Qualities Control Sheet for Mastery Learning," fully explains how to do this.  The following steps summarize the procedure:</div> <bR> <div> 1.  List five or six essential qualities (attributes, characteristics, standards, etc.) that your subject matter possesses.  How do you know they are essential?  A quality is essential when even the smallest sampling of a student's work contains it to some degree.   For teaching pre-college writing skills, for example, FairPlay uses the following qualities:</div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="126" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" BGCOLOR=#DDDDDD > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> Essential Qualities</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> Idea Development</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="114"><div> Organization</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> Sentence Structure</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="114"><div> Conventions</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="114"><div> Word Choice</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="114"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="114" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div>  </div> <div> No matter what writing assignment, or part of an assignment, it would contain to varying degrees, each of the above qualities. This means that you can <U>sample</U> parts of a student's work for immediate feedback before he begins compounding his errors. </div> <bR> <div> 2.  Now, add three more columns to your list, as FairPlay did below.  In taxonomic order, insert the first three levels of Bloom's cognitive taxonomy:  </div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="407" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" BGCOLOR=#DDDDDD > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> Essential Qualities</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> Knowledge</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> Comprehension</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="99"><div> Application</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> Idea Development</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> 011</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="90"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="90" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="99"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="99" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="114"><div> Organization</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> 011</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="90"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="90" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="99"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="99" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> Sentence Structure</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> 001</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="90"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="90" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="99"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="99" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="114"><div> Conventions</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> 001</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="90"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="90" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="99"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="99" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="114"><div> Word Choice</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> 011</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="90"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="90" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="99"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="99" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="114"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="114" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="71" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="90"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="90" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="99"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="99" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> <U>This is the beginning of a quality control sheet for teaching and learning.</U></div> <bR> <div> 3.  Now, place a row of boxes below the control sheet.  The numbers in these boxes represent footnote references to the teacher's  comments--one box for each assignment.</div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="551" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" BGCOLOR=#DDDDDD > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="71"><div> 1</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> 2</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> 3</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> 4</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> 5</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> 6</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="71"><div> 7</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> For example, for assignment number one the teacher indicates a score of <I>0</I> (00000) for each quality. The student does better, however, with his second sample or assignment (11001). For his third sample we see an encouraging possible <U>pattern</U> developing for Idea Development (011) and for Organization ((011).  FairPlay's document FP 707 explicates this unfolding completely.  Here, however,  we should note five points:</div> <bR> <div> <U><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c80000bf00.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Sampling</U><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > takes place about three or four times a week--to identify and help the student avoid the compounding of errors.  </FONT></div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#BF0000" FACE="Arial" ><U>continuum for progress</U></FONT> is the cognitive taxonomy.  A student shows progress as his cognitive grasp of the subject matter increases.  This is <U>entitled</U> progess; a student must earn his way through the taxonomy. The taxonomy will not permit him to advance to Comprehension, for example, until he develops a strong Knowledge base of the subject matter.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The taxonomy assures <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#BF0000" FACE="Arial" ><U>constancy of purpose</U></FONT>.  It assures that all assignments focus constantly on the development of coginive skills, and that subject matter remains a vehicle--not an end--for instruction.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The control sheet, with it footnotes and scoring patterns, provides a complete history of the student's work and of his place on the cognitive continuum.  This eliminates the need for quizzes, tests, midterms, and finals.  The student always has a copy of his control sheet.  He can therefore obtain help from any teacher within the subject matter discipline.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The taxonomy addresses the <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#BF0000" FACE="Arial" ><U>diversity of student achievement levels</U></FONT>.  Each advancing assignment becomes more and more customized for the given student.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Quality mangagement terms such as <I>specifications</I>, <I>variance boundaries</I>, and <I>customer </I>rarely emerge in a teaching/learning setting.  That a student must demonstate a <U>pattern</U> of problem free samplings for a given quality comprises the specifications.  That each level of the taxonomy is a prerequisite for the next constitutes the cognitive variance boundaries.  That the student, by definition, needs the instruction leaves little doubt as to who the customer is.  <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="FairPlay Services and Publications"><U>(</U></A><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#339966" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="FairPlay Services and Publications"><U>Return</U></A></FONT><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="FairPlay Services and Publications"><U>)</U></A> </div> <bR> <div>  </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>