High School Does Not Prepare Students for College

High School Does Not Prepare Students for College

15:37   college, high school, preparation,

This is probably one of the biggest clichés that I hear from parents regarding how well their children are learning at the school I work at. There are so many factors at play here that blaming high school seems like just a cop out. Factors such as the following:Contact...

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Inquiry-Based Learning

Inquiry-Based Learning

18:02  

Inquiry-based teaching is not so much about seeking the right answer (although that is certainly part of it) but instead about developing inquiring mind. Everyday, students come to classrooms with preconceptions about the world, how they think about it, and implications. This means teaching practices must draw out and...

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Continuously Evolving

Continuously Evolving

13:44   assessment, curriculum, edtech, grading, Inquiry, learning, standards-based grading, teaching,

Intro I get bored pretty quickly with things and always want to do the best possible job I can do. I am the type of person that if I hear about some new teaching theory, I immediately want to try it. There is a rigorous vetting process, of...

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All My Assessments are Pointless (But Not Purposeless)

All My Assessments are Pointless (But Not Purposeless)

09:43   assessment, evidence-based reporting, pointless, SBG, standard-based grading,

I am not trying to say that my assessments are without purpose. They are quite purposeful, but my students are NOT assessed based on a collection of arbitrary points that have low reliability and often no validity. If you think about it... What makes something a 10-point problem...

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Constructionist Assessments - The Snowball Effect

Constructionist Assessments - The Snowball Effect

14:24   assessment, standards-based grading,

Grades must be meaningful. The meaning that I put into grades is that they are the most recent representation of what students have demonstrated on a particular standard for that that grading period. The problem that I ran into with this meaning of grades occurred to me while...

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