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Jun 04

Real Life

We talk a lot about preparing our students for real life. We entice them with the reward of high marks (A’s, 100%’s, 3’s and 4’s) and we threaten them with failure (F’s, 0’s, 1’s and 2’s). It’s easy to think that enticing kids with high marks works because of the kids who work hard for …

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Mar 27

Grades and Feedback

Just a couple of years ago this is what my progress reports looked like. This is what I would give students every three to four weeks for the whole school year. This was what I thought would motivate my students. A majority of them were never motivated by this. And those who got “good” grades? …

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Feb 25

Lessons from Student Bloggers

It was about this time last year that I wrote a blog on some lessons I was learning from my students with regards to blogging and their blogs. I was getting the clue that assigning blog assignments as homework didn’t work. Merely having a tech component wasn’t enticing enough for kids to do school work …

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Oct 03

I’m bored. So what?

I think about things like keeping students engaged. I wonder about helping students stay on task and having in class socializing focused on the content we are learning. I wonder about asking 28 individuals to conform so that we can get along and learn in a small space. I try to be open to new …

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Ed Reform

It seems that education has become a hot topic and sadly not for the better. Ever since No Child Left Behind (NCLB) education has experienced a decline and I’m not just talking about standardized test scores. Now that NCLB is finally over, it has been replaced by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) and we’ll …

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Assessment

In my professional development learning I’ve had the utmost pleasure to be able to work with some talented and passionate educators from the North Cascades and Olympic Science Partnership (NCOSP) and also through the Olympic ESD 114 and the Olympic Math and Science Partnership (OMSP). The series they’ve taught on Assessment for Learning (AfL) have …

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Grades & HW

Links to my blogs on grading and homework. Do Grades Help or Hinder Learning? Here’s where it all started for me. In March of 2010 I considered for the first time in my 19 year teaching career to change my grading policy freeing myself of the shackles of 20th century, factory-model, reward-and-punish sorting that is …

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Jan 04

Time Well Spent

Vernier LabQuests

Yesterday I was getting some materials ready for my 6th grade Science classes and I noticed how much I enjoyed doing that instead of grading. Had I spent that time reading student work to give them points or a letter grade then I would have postponed replacing the batteries in our 10 LabQuest handheld probe …

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Dec 30

Best of 2010

I’ve seen many of my favorite bloggers putting together a list of their top blogs from 2010 so I thought I’d do the same. I use the WordPress plugin Counterize II and here are the top blog posts from most hits to the least hits: iPads in Science Avatars Assessment for Learning iPads Promise and …

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