Adding a Drawing Tablet to Improve Grading and Feedback
This past calendar year, I have been working to improve my grading and assessment processes. I want to make these processes transparent, streamlined, and provides students with information they can use to grow. The first part of this process was…
Creating Handouts & Worksheets for Print and Digital Use
Over the past decade education at all levels has been moving to digital content delivery through the use of various learning management systems (LMS). However, most of the content that teachers post for there students to use is primarily created…
Giving Feedback in the Digital Classroom
Whether you are in math, ELA, science, design, art or a multitude of other subjects most share a learning process of input, process, output, feedback. In education we have often lacked the feedback portion of this loop. We give students…
Creating an Image Caption in Google Docs
Google Docs doesn’t directly have a way to create image captions in their program, however there are several ways to create this effect fairly easily with the tools available already in Google Docs.
Fixing the Late Work Problem
Late work is problem many teachers struggle to solve, in this article we will provide a couple of solutions to this problem.
Bring Design Critiques Back to the Classroom
This leads to the question of what is a design critique? A design critique is any type of meeting in which designers present unfinished materials to colleagues to get feedback. This feedback can range in breadth from positive comments about aspects that work to aspects that don’t work and should possibly be revised. Using feedback from peers to improve design concepts is the primary purpose of the design critique, it gives the designer to a chance to make improvements to the design. Typically, in these types of open feedback processes some ground rules or norms are adhered to, usually a set of 3-4 questions are posed to a group (should be at least 5 people) and they focus commentary on how the designs answer those questions. Keep in mind, the purpose of this type of meeting is to evaluate existing ideas for future direction or changes.
Building Classroom Data: Tying Lessons to Standards
Education is being pushed to become and more data driven, instead of a teacher’s hunch that something needs to be changed it needs to be data that makes the decisions now. One of the most important pieces of data a teacher can use is achievement data.
Forums Drive Class Questioning
Last year in my classroom I went back to using online forums as a way to prime my students’ about a given topic that we would be talking about in class. Forums can be a great tool to get students…
Why I Moved To Standards Based Grading
I have always felt that educational assessment, needed to reflect skills and abilities not simply just facts and figures that could be memorized and regurgitated back. This isn’t deep and meaningful learning, it is simply recalling memorized information that students…