Can We Differentiate Ourselves?
One of the many challenges that we as pre-service teachers tend to face is the self-doubt that we may not be good teachers. That aching, […]
Misc
Science Impacts Everyone; Everyone Can Impact Science
Multiple hurricanes, earthquakes, California is on fire but JIM INHOFE HAD A SNOWBALL IN THE SENATE ONCE, WHAT CLIMATE CHANGE??? pic.twitter.com/UbQPdi5KN7 — Courtney (@CDNwanderer88) September […]
Visualizing Your Learning
Throughout our time together we have talked about about how making your thinking visible and visualizing a students learning are so important for them. It […]
For the Scientist Doubting Herself
Picture a scientist. Not a specific scientist, just a generic scientist. What image comes to your mind? What is the scientist wearing? How tall are […]
Transparency of Learning
Transparency of Learning By: Hayley Johnson Have you ever been teaching and feel like your students are listening but not understanding, or your students are […]
Seeing the Fruits of Your Labor
Representations of our learning such as posters and research papers are not the only way that a learner can make their thinking visible to themselves […]
Don’t Judge a Book by its Cover
Students come from all kinds of different backgrounds. They all have different experiences that have shaped who they are. The students bring these into your […]
The impact of a feather
Socrates could be talking about anything here, and I’m sure we could apply this statement to anything. Today, we’re going to apply it to knowledge- […]
Collaboration Nation
In many classrooms, students sit in straight rows, face forward, and the teacher lectures at them for 45 to 55 minutes. The students take notes […]
There’s No “I” in Team
Cooperative Learning “Cooperative learning” may seem like a foreign concept to those who went through school with just lectures and tests with nothing else in […]