Authentic community audiences can evaluate student work as real professional stakeholders

Evidence

We also encourage the use of town committees as juries to evaluate student work. When Great Brook sixth and seventh graders developed a plan for a piece of conservation land, the students presented their work to the members of the conservation commission for approval. The review of the students’ plan also constitutes professional development for community members who serve on the commission. — David Sobel, Place-Based Education, 114

Categorization

• XREF: The town-committee-as-jury move is a subtle reframing of both assessment and community relations worth noting in the interpretation/pedagogy course. — connects to: Deciding grant awards together is itself a team-building and learning exercise. — David Sobel, Place-Based Education: Connecting…, 38; Giving students public roles transforms how adults see them in the community. — David Sobel, Place-Based Education: Connecting…, 50; Effective place-based education runs on community partnerships and genuine student projects. — David Sobel, Place-Based Education: Connecting…, 13

Broader Connections

• Effective place-based education runs on community partnerships and genuine student projects. #corroborates (0.78) — David Sobel, Place-Based Education, 13