ActiveGrade has been a favorite among practitioners of Standards-Based Assessment. It's intuitive interface and elegant data displays helped teachers, students, and parents have meaningful conversations about student progress and assessment.
A while back, I saw a twitter a pic showing what looked like some colored ping pong balls being used to represent molecular model kits. Thanks Rich Lund @MrLundScience.
With the end of the school year approaching, educators are not only developing their semester exams, they are preparing for the upcoming school year as well. Although each individual educator has their own approach to improving their curriculum, many will be spending their summer aligning their curriculum to the Next Generation Science Standards.
Editor's Note: As many teachers are preparing to teach online, we are revisiting posts from the ChemEd X archives like this one that might be of help. The author has updated this activity by adding notes specifically to help those teaching remotely. This activity was originally published April 22, 2016.
I was sitting at my laptop marking up some labs and realized I had some students that kept making the same mistake as previous labs. So…this got me thinking. How can I get students to more carefully utilize my feedback? (This isn't a post to bash my students that aren't using my feedback.
I was sitting at my laptop marking up some labs and realized I had some students that kept making the same mistake as previous labs. So…this got me thinking. How can I get students to more carefully utilize my feedback? (This isn't a post to bash my students that aren't using my feedback.
I spend a lot of time working with models in my classroom - developing mental models, drawing models, talking about models, testing models - you get the picture. As I was planning my school year last summer, my colleagues and I started thinking about how our students interacted with the models.
An educational reform that has been gaining a large amount of popularity in the last decade is standards-based grading (SBG). The heart of the SBG movement is truly rooted in one very important question, “what do you want your grades mean?”
It's that time of year for those of us on the semester block system - end of course content state exams loom large and student stress is at an all time high. The longer I teach in this environment, the more I see how these tests push teachers to provide packet after packet for review.
