This year, I have found myself having serious debates about seating plans and arrangements in my classroom. Having taught high school previously, I never had any major concerns about seating plans. Students would come in, sit where they wanted to and, if there were a
I am writing this post a little late, but decided it was worth sharing my experience with the Hour of Code in December. The Hour of Code officially took place during the week of December 8th – 12th. The entire purpose behind the Hour of
Back on February 3rd, I decided that I was going to make a commitment to blog everyday for a month. At that point, I had already blogged for a couple of days in a row. This was a tremendous increase in my blogging and
Full credit for this post goes to Mac Hird (@ImMacHird), who is blogging and collaborating with my chemistry students this trimester. The first blog assignment was to share thoughts on “What makes a good science student?”. Mac’s response is one that I feel all science
Now that I’m starting to get the hang of this teaching thing, I have gained back my appetite to learn more. Luckily for me (and everyone else), the internet is so easily accessible and you can learn about anything you want anywhere, anytime. Sometimes it’s
One of the blogs I continually find myself reading is Joe Bower’s blog (@joe_bower) I came across Joe’s blog when he commented on my blog nearly two years ago. Joe blogs often about grading, politics influencing education and many, many other topics I have found interesting
