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Musing and Teaching: February 2013
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A place to share ideas on teaching history and teaching well. Thursday, February 7, 2013. My colleagues in the science and math departments have increasingly used small white boards in their classrooms as a way for students to do quick problem-solving in groups. Talking with them about this inspired me to consider how to use small, portable white boards in my own classroom for writing exercises, and now I do not think I could have a classroom without them again. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Musing and Teaching: Using Twitter
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A place to share ideas on teaching history and teaching well. Friday, July 12, 2013. The first person I followed was my math teacher friend, who is a genius at using the internet for his personal learning network (PLN), and he promptly sent out one tweet that explained I had joined Twitter and was looking for some history tweeps. Literally within minutes other people had tweeted suggestions for people to follow and hashtags to look at, and from there I was on to exploring a blog. 2 Find helpful hashtags!
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Musing and Teaching: December 2012
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A place to share ideas on teaching history and teaching well. Sunday, December 16, 2012. I am initially hesitant to incorporate technology into my classroom just because I am wary of network reliability and the ease of use of some software, so I am excited to share the three ways in which technology has been beneficial in my AP World History class this year. Google Docs - An Upgrade from Moodle. Nonetheless, and despite a few technical kinks that our IT department is working through, this has made gradin...
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Musing and Teaching: July 2013
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A place to share ideas on teaching history and teaching well. Friday, July 12, 2013. The first person I followed was my math teacher friend, who is a genius at using the internet for his personal learning network (PLN), and he promptly sent out one tweet that explained I had joined Twitter and was looking for some history tweeps. Literally within minutes other people had tweeted suggestions for people to follow and hashtags to look at, and from there I was on to exploring a blog. 2 Find helpful hashtags!
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Musing and Teaching: Backwards Planning
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A place to share ideas on teaching history and teaching well. Wednesday, July 23, 2014. I am in the process of creating a new Greek Civilization course for the fall semester, and there are a few key curriculum planning strategies that I recently received from my participation in the Klingenstein Summer Institute (KSI) that I have found to be incredibly helpful:. 2 Design with deeper understandings in mind, NOT content. We brainstormed some common general misunderstandings in history (listed below), and I...
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Musing and Teaching: Reassessment Survey
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A place to share ideas on teaching history and teaching well. Wednesday, December 12, 2012. In my last post I said that I planned to give my freshmen a short survey to see how well they understood my SBG and to ask why they don't make reassessment or tracking their academic progress more of a priority. I made the survey in my Google docs account and sent it to them as a link; 15 out of 18 of them responded and their results were anonymous. Here are the results:. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). World ...
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Musing and Teaching: August 2012
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A place to share ideas on teaching history and teaching well. Wednesday, August 15, 2012. Standards Based Grading: The Starting Line. WHAT I'VE FIGURED OUT. First, my overall grading scale. Unit Goals – 35%. Essential/Transferable Skills – 35%. Portfolio Upkeep – 10%. Final Exam – 10%. This grading scale allows for my standards to fall into four categories. My list of standards and their indicators are below. On his own experience with SBG. I have decided that I will set aside formal time for reassessmen...
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10 Awesome Questions my Year 8 Social Studies Class Posed… | teachbean
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Ideas sprouting from an Australian classroom. 10 Awesome Questions my Year 8 Social Studies Class Posed…. 8230; after having done a Chalk Talk. Thinking routine ( visible thinking routines. I had the opportunity to spend Tuesday with Ron Richhart. And decided to take on these two routines with my Year 8 Social Studies class. The question I posed for both routines was ‘what does a well-functioning society look like? 1 Are small cities or big cities best? 2 Could population growth be discouraged? 8230;] th...
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Musing and Teaching: Thesis Writing Exercises
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A place to share ideas on teaching history and teaching well. Thursday, February 7, 2013. My colleagues in the science and math departments have increasingly used small white boards in their classrooms as a way for students to do quick problem-solving in groups. Talking with them about this inspired me to consider how to use small, portable white boards in my own classroom for writing exercises, and now I do not think I could have a classroom without them again. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Musing and Teaching: November 2012
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A place to share ideas on teaching history and teaching well. Saturday, November 24, 2012. SBG 4: End of term. Some) Students are taking it seriously. Looking over my statistics, almost half of my entire freshmen class has come in at least once for reassessment on the unit goal standards, and I can think of two students in particular who've found the opportunity for improvement to be empowering. I'm getting usable data. My own lesson planning is getting better. See my last post. WHAT STILL NEEDS SOME WORK.
