Learning and Science in the 21st Century
How do you know when science has happened? Ask Doyle.
“A child muttered in class this week that she keeps knowing less than she thought she knew.
Success.”
The dismantling, disintegrating, demolishing, disassembling, trashing, throwing away, rooting out of misconceptions is hard work for teachers and students.
Seeing things that did not exist moments before is why I got [...]
Read: Now this is assessment.
As we look to our portfolio implementation next year, these are the guiding questions for faculty discussion.
Why would a portfolio benefit students?
What would a good portfolio to show?
How can the core values be reflected in the portfolio? What school experiences could be included in the portfolio?
What type of work would you include from your class?
How [...]
There is a particular unit of study I have taught for the past seven or so years in my middle school science classes. The science content is in the area of climate study. In particular my class is trying to understand how the Sun-Earth system work together to cause variability in our Climate. Ultimately this [...]
Others have told me their students are completely dialed in to the new technologies that permeate our e-connected world. I don’t know, maybe it is our rural location and the percentage of students who still suffer the pains of dialup, or no service at all, but other than MySpace an occasional Facebook account, and [...]
When my wife and I first looked into a Waldorf school for our son I came home thinking, “ah, no.” Everything seemed fine really. The staff were very caring, the facility adequate, the other children, some of whom we knew were happy and prospering. So what was the turn off? Well, [...]
