Did She Just Say, “Snowball fight?”
Did I catch your attention like I caught my students’ curiosity? So what does a snowball fight have to do with math? Let’s just say the idea came about because…
Did I catch your attention like I caught my students’ curiosity? So what does a snowball fight have to do with math? Let’s just say the idea came about because…
One of the things I am focusing on this year is building the capacity of students to self-assess accurately and reflect on their progress and learning. I am using group…
Even before remote learning, I had been considering different ways of assessing students in my Integrated Math 2 and Introduction to Statistics courses. I felt (and students agreed) that they…
I’ve been teaching math for ten years. I have good classroom management, great relationships with the other staff in my building, and consistent communication with parents. I have learned along…
Anxiety. Stress. Grades. Students have a million activities, classes, events, and social issues they manage everyday. They are busy and overwhelmed. Add a math class in there and some students…
New vocabulary words, generalized formulae, and prior knowledge-the ideas stack up by the end of a new unit. I often ask, “Have my students really learned all of this?” Best…
In his book, Embedded Formative Assessment, Dylan Wiliam highlighted five core strategies to any successful formative assessment practice in the classroom. Here are the strategies Dylan suggests: Clarifying, sharing, and understanding learning…
As the first quarter comes to a close in a few weeks (that went fast), I wanted to share with you how I have been working with students through self-assessment so…