Assessment The Retake Debate Recently, I’ve been in heated discussions around whether or not we should allow students to retake assessments. I teach both math and science currently, and the departments are in very different places with…
Assessment “Do you round up?” At my school, we’re nearing the end of our second trimester. Consequently, students are starting to see how their grades are stacking up now that most of their assignments and assessments have been…
STEM Marshmallow Challenge For the opening day of my STEM course I used this activity, inspired by the following TED talk: I found it to be a great experience for my students. It was a fun…
Learning Attempting to Blog for a Month 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…
Science Science Blogging, Tweaked A few weeks ago I posted about how I had my science students blog last trimester. Since I am starting a new trimester, I have tweaked the assignment a little. If you didn’t…
Teaching Watch: To This Day I came across this video this morning and felt compelled to share it here. It’s a poem by Shane Koyczan (@koyczan) and was animated by a number of different animators through a collaborative…
