Category: Pedagogy
For posts describing teaching, theories about learning, etc.
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Assessment—A Little More Work on the Instructor’s End May Help Make Assessment Reporting More Meaningful
As I gathered resources for the upcoming semester, I had to address everyone’s least-favorite aspect of the educational experience: assessment. My dislike of our methods of assessment is not even centered around the stresses that scores induce in students, parents, and teachers, especially near the end of an instructional term; my main source of discomfort…
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A Week of Writing with the Kentucky Writing Project
I am by no means a morning person, but I will occasionally wake up at a decent time when it is for something important. This past week I found myself lucky enough to receive the opportunity to write with some other great teachers at the Kentucky Writing Project Summer Institute in Lexington, Kentucky, and although…
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Summertime Studies
Tomorrow we return for the first of a few days of our beginning-of-the-year teacher inservice days, so it is only natural for us teachers to return under a heavy miasma of contemplation. Education has formed the backbone of almost all of my life, and summer has always been my over-engorged stomach towards which I look…