Importance of Feedback

Feedback is an important tool for teachers to use. If students do not have feedback, they do not know how to improve their learning. Immediate feedback is huge so that they can use it to influence their learning. Otherwise, they are likely to continue making the same mistakes. As a…

Backward Design

People have a variety of feelings about science. Usually, they fall on a spectrum of thinking it is objective and factual to it cannot be trusted. Regardless of where on this spectrum people fall, they generally talk about how science affects people. The truth is that people affect science, especially…

Growing the Little Scientists with STEM

I believe we are all born little scientists. It is through experimentation and observation that we learn everything we do. As a STEM teacher, I am responsible for growing the scientist within each student. I can do that by creating a safe space for learning and showing students the importance…