Teaching Inclusivity Using Student-Centered Learning Activities
In today's increasingly diverse classrooms, it is more important than ever for teachers to be culturally inclusive. This means creating a learning environment where all students feel welcome, respected, and valued, regardless of their background or culture.
One way to create a culturally...
3 Strategies to Put The Power of Grading Into Students' Hands
Traditionally, grading has been a top-down process, with teachers assigning grades to students based on their own criteria. If we want to create a more effective and equitable educational system, we need to put the power of grading into students' hands. This approach, known as self-grading, gives...
4 Ways to Get Students Involved in Monitoring Their Progress
Progress monitoring is the process of tracking student learning over time. It is an important tool for teachers to use to identify students who are struggling and to provide them with the support they need. However, progress monitoring is something that students should be doing themselves as...
Establish a No-Grades Classroom Because Feedback Is Just Better
Grades have been an ubiquitous part of the educational system, but there is a growing body of research that suggests that they are ineffective and even harmful. In this article, we will explore the ineffectiveness of grades and discuss how to start a no grades classroom using feedback based...
The Surprising Key to Student Talk
By Connie Hamilton
When learners need to improve their reading skills, we teach reading skills. When they need to develop their math strategies, we teach math strategies. If they need to refine their blending skills in art, we teach them to blend. So it’s obvious when students need to ramp...
Don’t Panic about ChatGPT—Students Still Can Focus on the Process
In an article for The Atlantic, Daniel Herman says ChatGPT is “The End of High-School English.” If you’re not familiar, ChatGPT is artificial intelligence that can write—and write well.
A student can ask ChatGPT to compose what...
Foster Resilient Learners and Assess the Process, Not the Outcome
By Elizabeth Jorgensen
Do you remember your GPA? Or a specific score you received in elementary, middle, high school, or college?
Are you recalling that time you failed a chemistry test? Or when you cheated your way to a better score?
Or maybe that time you were benched from the...
What Does it Mean to Be 'Educated' in the 21st Century?
By Starr Sackstein
"Education": 12 years of compulsory primary and secondary education that covers a breadth of knowledge spanning history, literature, assorted math, language, physical education, assorted physical and living sciences, and other electives.
Upon successful completion of high...
A Concerningly Empty Grade Book
By Tyler Rablin
I’ve heard it called an epidemic.
I’m talking about the amount of missing work at the secondary level. It truly defined the beginning of the school year. Teachers returned to the classroom excited to be back with students, try out new ideas, and engage in the type of...
Why I Was Done with Late Work
By Elizabeth Jorgensen
I wish I had realized this sooner:
Students complete late work not because they care about the authenticity of the assignment but because they want to move their grade up a letter.
Early in my teaching career, I accepted all late work. At the end of each semester, I...
