by Dolores Gende | Dec 11, 2012 | Making The Shift, The How of 21st Century Teaching, The Teaching Life, Voices
Physics teacher Dolores Gende is shifting her teaching to a student-driven learning model by selecting some areas of focus each year. This year it’s assessment. “I see assessment as an ongoing process that informs me and my students and gauges the progression of learning. I partner with my students, and they appreciate not being constrained by fixed deadlines and dead-end quiz scores. They prefer the ample opportunities we create to demonstrate they can accomplish all of our Learning Objectives.”
by Kathy Cassidy | Nov 28, 2011 | Less Teacher, More Student, The How of 21st Century Teaching, Voices
I’ve nodded sagely as people discussed whether students should help create their own assessment rubric. Of course they should. Why doesn’t everyone do this, I wondered? It just never occurred to me to do it in MY classroom. It wasn’t that I didn’t think my students could do it. I somehow didn’t get my thinking from the “should†to the “I’m doing it.” Until this week.
by Powerful Learning Practice | Jun 23, 2011 | Action Research Projects
IU-13 Early Childhood and Special Education Services Team Members: Barbara Chubb, Nadine Hart, Teresa Fleming, Christine Brooks-Taitt, Community: IU-13 Year 1, 2010-2011 Our team attempted to align specific sections of the PA Academic Standards with the NETS and give...
by Tony Baldasaro | Oct 4, 2010 | Change
Cross-posted My two older children, Ben (grade 5) and Elisabeth (grade 4), start NECAP (New England Comprehensive Assessment Program) testing today. My youngest daughter, Emma, is too young to be tortured by them. But, Ben and Elisabeth join all 3-8 and 11th grade...
by Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach | Aug 26, 2010 | PD
By: Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach Dean Shareski is a community leader with PLP. He asks some interesting questions in his building of community within our cohorts. He does the same on his own blog. Today he asked: In the effort to be fiscally responsible and focus our...
