Ted Sizer, founder of the Coalition of Essential Schools, calls for teachers designing a curriculum to begin with the end in mind; that is, determine your goals and only then design appropriate assignments and assessments that guide students toward these goals. Sizer argues that students should be tested via public “exhibitions” that drive the curriculum and set clear standards for students about what is expected of them.2 This paper describes an exhibition in which students analyze the physics of movies.
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