A Teacher’s Thoughts

We will always find what we look for. 
How can you not applaud the efforts of a school which looks at how students are doing and puts specific actions into place to help students?  This RTI school has done just that.  Who wouldn’t suppose that as they focus more clearly on specific measures they will improve [...]

Here is my attempt to map out the connections between the New Hampshire Frameworks for Science Literacy and our current science fair and science fair wiki areas we can look for evidence of student learning. The scientific method appears not so clean.

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What do students think about when they think about assessment? They may list off the variety of projects, tests and quizzes they face throughout the school year. When asked what their goals are for assessment I bet the answer is something along the lines of “to get a good grade”. This is [...]

Whenever I pull out my science frameworks, I am always amazed at the amount of content and the apparent unrelatedness of it all. I have worked with standards in three states and it seems to be the same each time. Training and best practice say to dig deeper but the standards, so broad [...]

When my students first began to use Bubbl.us they used it mainly for vocabulary or to organize their own thoughts around an idea. I took this approach to focus on the tool and get the novelty out of the way so we could return to thinking. After a few days, a student commented [...]