Assessment/feedback

January 21, 2017 0

Teaching students the meta-cognitive skill of self-assessment empowers them and puts them in charge of their [...]

January 9, 2017 2

Testing: we all know assessment is important, but oh, the anxiety it causes! In the best of all possible [...]

November 13, 2016 5

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

The other day, during a #HackLearning chat on Twitter, we talked about praise and intrinsic motivation. I [...]

Teachers seem to love assigning group projects, while all too often, both students and parents dread them. [...]

May 26, 2016 4

A couple of months ago, we began trying out protocols for professional development with our teachers and [...]

March 6, 2016 2

One of the most important things we can do as educators is learn how to check for understanding as [...]

August 27, 2015 0

Every summer I search for a new book, tool, or technique that will rekindle my excitement for teaching. This [...]

July 5, 2015 0

This year we had our five-year follow-up visit from NEASC (New England Association of Schools and Colleges) [...]

February 5, 2015 1

A few months ago I discovered Zaption when I took The Teaching Channel’s observation challenge: Can You [...]