{"id":1905,"date":"2016-05-05T15:27:49","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T19:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=1905"},"modified":"2016-05-05T15:31:18","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T19:31:18","slug":"language-being-internalized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=1905","title":{"rendered":"Language being internalized"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can’t always remember where we get the language we use. For some years we’ve been using the term deliverables<\/strong> instead of evaluaions, assessments or projects, but I always assumed it came from the business world. Looking at the amazing High Tech High site today, I see that they use the term deliverables, so maybe we got it from them. <\/p>\n

Then I had to poke a little bit more. The OED (one great reason to continue to teach at University level is to have access to the databases there) reveals a 1948 entry in the Journal of Marketing that exemplifies this definition: <\/p>\n

Chiefly in pl. Something which may be delivered or provided; spec. a tangible result of a development process.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I wanted to know when this became common in business world and when it made the transition to education circles. I searched Phi Delta Kappan and there were only five results. The first hit where they talked about deliverables in this way seems to imply that this term had been around for awhile: <\/p>\n

“Finally, there\u2019s more documentation now: accountables, measurables, deliverables, performance charts, and imperatives, all in the strange language of the new pedagogy.”<\/p>\n

Brezicki, Colin. \u201cThe Pilot Light: Teaching for Life.\u201d Phi Delta Kappan 92, no. 6 (March 1, 2011).<\/p>\n

I did the same full-text search in Educational Leadership and got two results, one from 2001 where this language was used in a survey of how exploratory time could be used: <\/p>\n

“Deliverables. This idea comes from a teacher I know, Brenda Kraber. If a teacher has 28 students working on different projects, he or she might have difficulty keeping track of student progress. Deliverables have specific due dates. For example, the teacher and Angela can agree that her research notes on chimpanzees are due on October 18, which means they need to be delivered to the teacher by that date.”<\/p>\n

Wolk, Steven. \u201cThe Benefits of Exploratory Time.\u201d Educational Leadership<\/em> 59, no. 2 (October 2011): 56\u201359.<\/p>\n

Regardless of where the word came from, we spent some time today talking about the hard part of designing deliverables for projects. I wanted to begin by seeing how well they’ve internalized this process and what we have to worry about for next year. <\/p>\n

Questions about being realistic, the evolving nature of deliverables, how to sequence them, and the necessity of research emerged… <\/p>\n

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