I have learned two very important things about assessments, this quarter: ONE) You must be sure to check for understanding both before and after the lesson, or you don't really know if anything has changed or not, and TWO) If you formulate either question in such a way…
What do I need to think about connected to supporting my current students? I am currently thinking a lot about how to facilitate at-home lab projects for the high schoolers this coming quarter. I feel as though we are over-using PHET in the pandemic; it's a great resource,…
Whenever I think of differentiation the first thing that comes to mind is: a sentence stem. At the end of February, the 8th graders were doing something the teacher called a "one pager" in which the kids made their own one-page posters to explain something they were studying.…
Today was all about the question, "what is a testable question". The kids are doing a virtual science fair, and they need to develop a question and experiment to answer it, so we talked about what a testable question was. The students, I found, mostly answered the question…
I think I may have already talked about this particular lesson, in this class, but I want to choose it again for this challenge; a few weeks ago I did a "Periodic Table Battleship" activity with the students, where I hid my ships on the PToE and gave…
Honestly, I think this lesson (I went with the science one) is pretty solid, overall... One thing I wonder is: what grade level was this intended for? I've looked over the document more than once, and I cannot find it. I would be nervous about giving something this…
Optimizing ENGAGEMENT in UDL means providing students with a number of ways to participate and giving them a reason value the time they spend with us... unfortunately, the biggest obstacle to this is that an upsettingly large number of students are simply bored to tears by the prospect of staring…
> When we are interested in what we are learning, no one has to force us to keep learning: we just do. If you’ve ever watched kids when they are playing sports, planning a field trip, or discussing their favorite celebrity, you know how different they are when they…