Week of Events
PLT: Making a Successful Transition to Standards-based Learning
PLT: Making a Successful Transition to Standards-based Learning
Primary Team Goal: To design original phenomenon-driven units that target performance expectations in math and science through the pursuit of curiosity and reflective critical thinking. Professional Learning Teams (PLTs) differ slightly from professional learning communities you may belong to in your school setting in that PLT members come from all over the world so there is […]
Using Puzzles to Teach Pattern Recognition
Using Puzzles to Teach Pattern Recognition
In this 1.5 hr. workshop, teachers will work individually and then as a team to identify a pattern in puzzle pieces that 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 […]
Statistics for Teaching Science: Part 8 Choosing the Most Appropriate Stats for Your Data
Statistics for Teaching Science: Part 8 Choosing the Most Appropriate Stats for Your Data
This is the culminating workshop for the Statistics for Advanced Level Science series. In this session, we will compare the application of different hypothesis tests and discuss how more than one type of statistical analysis may be appropriate for the same set of data. We will look for the key components of research questions or […]
Writing Easy-to-Use Rubrics
Writing Easy-to-Use Rubrics
In this 1.5 hr. workshop, participants will practice writing rubrics with the intent of assessing the attainment of specific content, skills, or standards. We will explore how rubrics can be designed for ease of use and consistent interpretation. I will challenge the participants to make rubrics that are flexible enough to allow accurate assessment of […]