January 21, 2017 0 Teaching for Mastery: Ongoing Self-Assessment Teaching students the meta-cognitive skill of self-assessment empowers them and puts them in charge of their [...]
January 9, 2017 2 Performance Assessment in Math: Teaching Others Testing: we all know assessment is important, but oh, the anxiety it causes! In the best of all possible [...]
November 13, 2016 5 Teaching Students Life and Career Skills Last year, I had an aha! moment while on a Twitter chat (by the way, if you’re an educator, Twitter chats [...]
October 31, 2016 3 No Rewards: Why We Shouldn’t Reward Students The other day, during a #HackLearning chat on Twitter, we talked about praise and intrinsic motivation. I [...]
September 19, 2016 8 Surviving Group Projects Teachers seem to love assigning group projects, while all too often, both students and parents dread them. [...]
May 26, 2016 4 Protocols For Peer Feedback in the Classroom A couple of months ago, we began trying out protocols for professional development with our teachers and [...]
March 6, 2016 2 How Teachers Can Check For Students’ Understanding One of the most important things we can do as educators is learn how to check for understanding as [...]
August 27, 2015 0 Improving Feedback with Kaizena Every summer I search for a new book, tool, or technique that will rekindle my excitement for teaching. This [...]
July 5, 2015 0 Students Reflect on the Year This year we had our five-year follow-up visit from NEASC (New England Association of Schools and Colleges) [...]
February 5, 2015 1 The Zaption Experiment A few months ago I discovered Zaption when I took The Teaching Channel’s observation challenge: Can You [...]