Standards-based Grading Series: Offering Choice Menus for Differentiated Assessment
(F Mar 5, 11am-12:30pm Eastern Standard Time) Participants will be given an example of a choice menu to see how this assessment tool can be used within an online or in-person class. Assessment menus allow greater autonomy in a class as students choose the type of assignment that appeals to them or allows them to […]
Approaches to Learning: How to Build Inclusion, Differentiation, and Autonomy into Your Curriculum
(F Mar 5, 1pm-2:30pm Eastern Standard Time) Twenty-first century teaching is challenged by the fact that we are preparing students for a world that does not yet exist. When the techniques used in the classroom or the content taught in the course are dated, students are quick to acknowledge that discord and can disengage. Participants […]
Student-designed Experiments: Part 2 Helping Students Write an Experimental Procedure
(Tu Mar 9, 7-8:30pm Eastern Standard Time) In this workshop we will pick up where Part 1 of this series left off. We begin with a list of variables our students have identified as potentially impacting a particular phenomenon they have explored. Using a think-pair-share process, we will give students the structure needed to write […]
Statistics for Teaching Advanced Science: Part 6 Hypothesis Testing Using the Student’s t-test
(W Mar 10, 11am-12:30pm Eastern Standard Time) Parts 5-8 continue the Statistics for Science series to include the skills required in high school Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) science courses. In these workshops, we will learn how and when to use each of the most common statistical tests that are used to test […]
Approaches to Learning: Incorporating Critical Thinking and Differentiation into Project-based Learning Outcomes
(W Mar 10, 1-2:30pm Eastern Standard Time) Participants in this 1.5 hr. workshop, will compare project-based learning outcomes and use their analysis to backward map the lesson such that it hits the skills and thinking objectives desired. In this workshop teachers will work with several free online applications that allow students to create diverse projects […]
Standards-based Grading Series: Writing Easy-to-Use Rubrics
(F Mar 12, 11am-12:30pm Eastern Standard Time) In this 1.5 hr. workshop, participants will practice writing rubrics with the intent of assessing the attainment of specific content and skills 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 […]
Approaches to Learning: Helping Students Give Kind and Useful Critical Feedback
(F Mar 12, 1pm-2:30pm Eastern Time) One of the tools of student-centered teaching is the peer review process. In this technique, students gather in small groups and present their work to one another. The audience of peers is asked to use their knowledge and experience to give critical feedback to the presenter so they can […]
Choosing the Best Error Bars to Use on a Graph Featuring DataClassroom
In this free workshop, Kristen Dotti from Catalyst Learning Curricula will walk you through the choices that are commonly used to depict the spread of data in a sample group. Interpreting error bars was once a skill limited to upper-level science courses but has now become a basic part of data literacy in our everyday […]
Student-designed Experiments: Part 3 Guiding Students Through Data Analysis
(Tu Mar 16, 7-8:30pm Eastern Daylight Time) Teachers will play the role of the students, collecting data in their own homes and pooling their observations and measurements in a spreadsheet shared by their lab partners. We will conduct data analysis within lab groups during the workshop to experience how this process can be performed using […]
Statistics for Teaching Advanced Science: Part 7 Hypothesis Testing Using Tests of Correlation
(W Mar 17, 11am-12:30pm Eastern Daylight Time) Parts 5-8 continue the Statistics for Science series to include the skills required in high school Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) science courses. In these workshops, we will learn how and when to use each of the most common statistical tests that are used to test […]