The Results of the Learning Progression Model in One Course
The end of the school year fast approaches. All of the final attempts have been scored. Aren’t you curious about the results? Well, let’s go through them: lab, project, and […]
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Step-by-step Development of a Learning Progression
This week I worked with a professor from NJCU, in order to develop her practices and learning progressions. For the sake of transparency, this professor happens to be my mother, […]
Tracking Student Progress
Going Gradeless is out! I received my copy and honestly, it was surreal. I was expecting a pamphlet, not this weighty book. A real book! With pages! I know this […]
Going Gradeless vs. Traditional Grading: What’s the difference?
I am often confronted by curious people asking why traditional grading using points is a worse evaluation method than the scoring in the Going Gradeless approach. And, I say: it’s […]
A Possibility: Standards Across Disciplines
I talk a lot about labs. I am aware that it may be a turn-off to those of you who aren’t science teachers, since you don’t use that type of […]
TIME WELL-SPENT
I had just finished scoring lab reports from my Advanced Placement class. My thoughts were pretty negative: Why they are still performing at the same level as in September? Why […]
How do we help students set goals when there are no grades?
Does this conversation sound familiar? Student: “I want to do better in this class.” Teacher: What does “better” mean? Student: “I want an A.” Teacher: What does an A look […]
The Physical Effects of Teaching
My intention was to write this blog post after the first week of the hybrid schedule. I thought I’d ruminate about something significant, like student engagement, pros/cons of full remote vs. face-to-face, or how I explain my standards-based grading system to my students.
