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We list correlations with the California State standards on our brochures at
the request of teachers, who say they help make the case that a visit is
worthwhile. It's not the reason we'd choose to have them use, but it's a
reason that works.
I've always struggled with how broadly it is ethical to stretch in saying a
program meets a standard. Does the program just need to touch on some part
of the standard? Should we be confident that a student will leave the
program with a strong understanding of the standard? I'm not sure there's
any one rule, but I'd like to hear how stringently others define "meeting a
standard".
On 9/22/05 12:43 PM, "Mike Shanahan" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> ISEN-ASTC-L is a service of the Association of Science-Technology Centers
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> Aloha,
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> We're working on revisions to our educator's guide at Bishop Museum in
> Hawaii. The guide will list all of our onsite programs for school
> groups. It will also list our cultural outreach and science outreach
> programs to the schools.
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> Question: how much information do you provide in your education guides
> regarding content standards and benchmarks? Do you provide a general
> guideline? A specific benchmark and reference? Something in between?
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> How much of this sort of information in provided in your general guide,
> and how much do you provide either through your web pages or through
> ancillary material (guides that are specific to each program, for
> example).
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> Reply separately or to the whole list if you would.
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> Mike Shanahan
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> Education Director
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> Bishop Museum
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> 1525 Bernice Street, Honolulu HI 96817
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> Office: (808) 847-8235
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> FAX: (808) 847-8250
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> Cell/pager: (808) 386-1419
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> www.bishopmuseum.org
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Katherine Ziff
Manager of School and Community Programs
Bay Area Discovery Museum
557 McReynolds Road
Sausalito, CA 94965
(415) 339-3922
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