It doesn’t always work this way, but it would be awesome if it did. When PBL is perfect or ideal, the students are the ones who make the natural connections or at least see the need or motivation for the problems that we are doing. Yeah, some of them are just really interesting problems and […]
It’s always refreshing when someone can put into words so eloquently what you have been thinking inside your head and believing for so long. That’s what Darryl Yong did in his recent blogpost entitled Explanatory Power of the Hierarchy of Student Needs. I feel like while I was reading that blogpost I was reading everything […]
So I heard that what everyone is saying about the new Star Wars Movie, The Force Awakens, is that “Everything Old is New Again” – go ahead google it, there are at least 5 or 6 blog posts or articles about how “BB-8 is the new R2D2” or “Jakku is the new Tattoine” or whatever. […]
So, all assessments are back to the students, tears have been dried and we are now onto our next problem set (what we are calling these assessments). What we’ve learned is that the rubric allowed us to easily see when a student had good conceptual understanding but perhaps lower skill levels (what we are used […]
First in a series of posts about my experiences with “Feedback Before Grades” Holy Mackerel is all I have to say – Ok, well, no I have plenty more to say – but after about a week and a half of holing myself up with my colleague, Kristen McVaugh, (big shout-out to Ms McVaugh who […]
My school year is underway and as September just flew by, I have been completely overwhelmed by work – of course. I am undertaking a new assessment method with a colleague of “feedback first and then grades” (blogpost to come when I give back the first set next week) but for now I wanted to […]
What do we all do with kids who miss out on the wonderful rich discussions where the learning happens in a PBL math class? @0mod3 asks what to do about kids’ absences. (thanks for the great question!) @SchettinoPBL Probably both. I highlight math terminology, we clarify and formalize the math during class. — DReycer (@0mod3) […]
So tonight I give my very first online talk – I’m a little worried that talking to my computer will be a little strange at 9:00 at night, but we’ll see what happens. Hopefully, there will be some type of audience interaction. I’m such a relational person that I think I’m one of those people […]
At the PBL Summit a few weeks ago, we had two wonderful speakers, Julian Fleron and Phil Hotchkiss from Westfield State University who are founding members of the Discovering the Art of Mathematics Project. They gave a great key note address on Friday night about Inquiry-Based Learning and motivating students in an IBL classroom. You […]