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. […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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) […]
Claim, Evidence, Reasoning: Helping Students Identify Logical Fallacies
(W Mar 17, 1-2:30pm Eastern Daylight Time) Fallacies are errors in reasoning that undermine the logic of an argument. However, fallacies do not necessarily weaken the impact of the argument—on […]
Standards-based Grading Series: Process Portfolios to Document Thinking and Learning
(F Mar 19, 11am-12:30pm Eastern Standard Time) This 1.5 hr. workshop is dedicated to making thinking “visible” by documenting what influences a student’s thought process and by keeping track of […]
Curriculum Development: Planning Phenomenon-driven Units for NGSS Science Classes
(F Mar 19, 1pm-2:30pm Eastern Standard Time) The goal of this 1.5 hr. workshop is to help teachers develop a unit that uses inquiry to drive the exploration of a […]
Student-designed Experiments: Part 4 Drawing Evidence-based Conclusions
(Tu Mar 23, 7-8:30pm 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 […]
Statistics for Teaching Advanced Science: Part 8 Choosing the Most Appropriate Stats for Your Data
(W Mar 24, 11am-12:30pm Eastern Daylight Time) This is the culminating workshop for the Statistics for Advanced Level Science series. In this session, we will compare the application of different […]