Adventures with the Lower Level

This year has been hard. I probably don't need to tell you that. I can't really put a finger on what exactly it is, but I think this...

One of my big hurdles for the last few years has been how to go about getting kids to be able to really show that they understand a topic. T...

Okay, so I have had some major shifts in my grading this year. As we start thinking about closing out this trimester, kids are really, REALL...

So today in some really weird tangent in my ocean science class, we started discussing our district attorney. Now, several students in that ...

Earlier this week, my chemistry class got their first taste of my new take on that whole "rigor" thing. Because this year, I ha...

Now that we are a couple weeks into school, we are starting to get a little deeper into actually assessing some work. So now the questions o...

On the first day of school, we talk for just a little bit about how students will eventually receive a letter grade for chemistry, not too...

Yesterday* on Twitter, Adam asked the question. How do we teach students it is okay to fail. Can we set up something? #edchat — Adam Tayl...

So I am sitting here trying to figure out the best way to incorporate Capstones into my chemistry class. I am mostly doing this by studying ...

I hate giving tests. I'm not good at writing them, so they don't measure what my kids know. Said kids try to cheat as much as they c...

I have to thank the Crazy Teacher Lady for this term. It's something I have been trying to pin down and couldn't seem to put into w...

Today was one of the most stressful days I've had in quite awhile. Today I gave my state physical science test to our juniors and some...

I have several scraps of paper in a pile on my desk that contain short notes about what I want to change in my classroom next year. At this ...

Don't wake me up! Our seminar just ended. I had kids coming into my classroom. TO STUDY FOR THEIR QUIZ! These are kids who have never st...

Wandering around the math blogosphere will really change up the way you are thinking about your teaching. Those people are doing AMAZING thi...