Aside from trying to be as productive as I can every day, listening - truly listening to people - has completely changed my coaching. Elena Agular talks about listening at length in The Art of Coaching (well worth the read, btw) and since I've made the conscious effort to listen first, I've seen fruits. I… Read More »
However, working outside the LMS, well-trained instructors will be able to do far more than meet the minimal requirements for moving college courses online... Source: The role of the faculty in the post-LMS world (opinion) I don't work at a university, but we're in the process of moving teachers into using Canvas in our district,… Read More »
Whatever the reason, he was afforded the opportunity to learn and apply. It hasn’t come easy, but that’s the point. Giving a chance to redo isn’t about being easy. Source: If We Don’t Allow A Redo, What Are We Teaching? – The Teacher And The Admins Still in my standards-based grading vein, this is inevitably… Read More »
Remember, though, that grades should not be used as rewards. Nor should they be used as affirmation, compensation, or validation. Grades should represent an honest report of evidence at this moment in time, nothing more. If we make them something more than that, we undermine the student’s maturation and any useful purpose for grading. Source:… Read More »
Jessica Till asks a good question on Twitter: and Graham's response stood out to me: Turning this around (also mentioned by Will Dunn later in the thread), what would happen if we taught a lesson or went through an activity without positing the objective and then have students state the learning as an exit ticket… Read More »
I've never heard of the Asch Experiment, but this video is worth watching. Kaplinsky's article gives some good classroom ideas on how to avoid groupthink in student responses, even highlighting the Desmos teacher view to anonymize responses (which also works outside of math. During student teaching, questioning was the first thing my training teacher worked… Read More »
It's appropriate to write a back to school post nearly a month into the school year. I took Twitter off my phone back in July in an effort to put my phone down more often. It had become too easy to lazily open and scroll when my interest waned. That bled into time with my… Read More »
I've decided to fire up a new, static website to reflect on books I read this year. In all honesty, much of this is bring prompted by my grad school reading, but my reading list is also expanding for once classes are done and putting longer pieces together in response have helped. Anyways, I have… Read More »
I'm in some grad classes right now and in one, we were assigned to discuss, "Does building relationships with students really matter?" Prior to the discussion, we watched Rita Pierson's TED talk and read two articles: The Post on differences between white and black poverty and a piece from mic.com on white poverty in America.… Read More »
Our septic system needed to be upgraded, so we took the hottest weekend of the year (so far) to do it. My wife's dad and brother spent the day with me on Saturday digging large trenches to bury leach chambers. We redid all the plumbing. We plowed a new, larger garden and cut down some… Read More »
