(W Oct, 7-8:30 pm Eastern Daylight Time) Whether for STEM, foreign language, arts, or humanities, applying information is one of the most effective ways for a student to increase their level of understanding and for a teacher to assess mastery of knowledge and skills. Team challenges include any activity that asks a cooperative group to use what they have learned to accomplish a goal. For my own purposes, I will differentiate challenges from competitions by defining a challenge as an…

(Sa Oct 24, 11am-12:30 pm Eastern Daylight Time) This workshop will focus on the content and demands of the conclusion section of a lab report, with applications to data-based questions and internal assessments for IB students, and free response questions for AP students. The conclusions drawn from experimental data must be limited to the scope of the experiment, but it is also important for students to be able to understand how their individual work is related to the broader world.…

(Sa Oct 24, 1-2:30 pm Eastern Daylight Time) In this 1.5 hr. workshop, teachers will work individually and then as a team to identify a pattern in puzzle pieces that are tell the story of a theorem, function, or process. Once the pattern is defined, participants will use the pattern to predict what comes before or what comes next in the series. Testing their hypothesis against additional information will allow them to revise their explanation of the rules that govern…

(W Oct 28, 7-8:30 pm Eastern Daylight Time) An exciting way to engage your students in their online class is to use a topic that sparks discussion, research, and the desire to sleuth out additional information. In this workshop, teachers will participate in a debate in an asynchronous platform (such as Google Classroom) and in a synchronous video meeting (such as Zoom). We will use a topic that allows teachers of any subject area to join in making claims supported…

(Sa Oct 31, 11am-12:30 pm Eastern Daylight Time) Even when learning online, students can be placed at the center of the learning experience to increase their level of engagement and self-reliance. In this 1.5 hr. workshop, teachers will learn how to use any materials at hand to generate data for mathematical analysis. I will help you develop techniques for seeing new ways to use what is available so the limitations of at-home learning do not constrain the critical thinking that…

(Sa Oct 31, 1-2:30 pm Eastern Daylight Time) Combat attrition with engaging assignments that can be sculpted to the student’s abilities and interest. Stop-animation videos are a short movies made with a series of photos taken from the same position and a handful of items that can be moved about to create story. In this1.5 hr. workshop, you will create your own stop-animation video of processes or phenomena, to cover main ideas or convey detailed information. Through this experience, you…

(Tu Nov 3, 7-8 pm Eastern Standard Time) This 1-hour forum is a collaborative experience where teachers exchange solutions to challenges faced in the 2020-21 school year. Notes will be taken using shared documents so each person will benefit from all concurrent conversations regardless of which breakout room they attend. Groups will be remixed with each successive breakout room with a goal to address a different problem that has marked this school year. In this session of the series, participants…

(Tu Nov 10, 7-8 pm Eastern Standard Time) This 1-hour forum is a collaborative experience where teachers exchange solutions to challenges faced in the 2020-21 school year. Notes will be taken using shared documents so each person will benefit from all concurrent conversations regardless of which breakout room they attend. Groups will be remixed with each successive breakout room with a goal to address a different problem that has marked this school year. In this session of the series, participants…