Blended Learning and Lessons from COVID | Podcast Ep. 83
Dr. Stepan Mekhitarian, Interim Director of Innovation, Instruction, Assessment and Accountability at Glendale Unified School District, discusses lessons on blended learning, differentiation, and formative assessment […]
#621 Hypothes.is [1/2]: Make reading active, visible, and social
Hypothesis is a digital annotation tool that allows anyone to add, view, and respond to comments on pretty much any public webpage. It is a […]
Assessment-Based Feedback Tool: Blooket
By now, most of you have tried Kahoot!, Quizlet, Quizziz, and many others. These tools work as game-based student response systems that provide you with […]
Zoomed Out
The video conferencing solution does not matter – Zoom, Skype, Google Hangout, Big Blue Button – but the effect is the same. The overuse of […]
Pandemic Grading
Before a parent or an educator becomes too emotional in response to pandemic grading, let us consider the situation… Craft an Intentional Perspective “Unconditional positive […]
Moving Towards Inclusive Assessment in STEM
How do you know if your assessments are inclusive? How can you reconsider your assessments to make them more inclusive? Last week, we learned from […]
Assessing Student Learning in a Remote Environment
Remote learning has left many of us wondering about how we will be assessing student learning. How will we know that students are understanding the content […]
Teach Talk: Writing Effective Questions and Answers to Measure Student Understanding
What makes a good question? How do you write effective answer distractors? Is feedback really used on exams? What tools can be used to engage students with […]
Digital Interactive Notebooks
Over the last month, and with the uncertainty of how we will re-open, I decided to make a move to digital notebooks using Google slides. […]
Stream Screen Recording Success for Sixth Form Law
What was the purpose? I needed a way to provide my students with voiced over PowerPoints that did not have to be downloaded, as some […]
Student-Led Conferences Online
Teachers need new perspectives on traditional tasks. After the last quarter of the 2019-2020 school year went online, every K-12 function must consider what it […]
Narrative Assessments
Maybe it is because we have so many of our students being educated by parents, siblings, non-educators, but the time to bring back narrative assessments […]
