Some are experimenting with authentic assessment methods, and many have instituted portfolios as major components of on-going evaluation. It is also the kind of approach that I will argue would greatly enhance Kentucky schools technology programs. Allow me yet another digression before embarking on the primary focus of this talk. As you may know the pedagogos was originally the slave intrusted with instructing the youth of Athens. The pedagogos then became the one who took the child to learning.
Pedagogy then is the study of both the guiding process itself and the training of the guide.
Most devote the majority of the required graduate hours to seminars on method and pedagogy. Meta-pedagogy steps beyond the study of method and into the study of how the method itself is studied and transmitted. It has proven fruitful over the last two decades as writing specialists have now become the primary pool of humanists for deanships, directorships, and provost positions. The focus in their graduate programs on how the teaching is accomplished and on how theory gets translated into practice has apparently prepared them and spurred them to apply their learning and experience to administrative duties. In fact a few of the dozen schools that provide much of the writing specialists have taken as their primary focus the training of writing-program administrators.