Teaching Resources For Sustainable, Innovative Teaching

Standards-Based Grading Only Solves Half The Problem

If the goal a student has to clear is absurdly low, then the assessment is not rigorous even though it is ‘standards-based’ grading.

My colleague and I took a constructionist approach to teaching. Our students tinkered, failed, learned, and created. Here’s how we did it.

In designing a project-based learning classroom, mistakes are allowed & expected. Students then become active rather than passive learners.

I am responsible for everyone and thing in this class and therefore at times what I say and do may confuse you or even seem unfair or wrong.

If you want a child to give up, constantly emphasize their shortcomings and let them know you’re doing so for their own good.

After the teachers disappeared, students knew that if they were too rowdy someone would notice, so they kept the noise to a minimum.

Just as a teacher has to create conditions that support and encourage student success, school districts have to support teachers’ PD.

Flipping the lesson design by asking students to explain an activity’s purpose after it’s done encourages them to make important connections.