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SBG: Affective Quizzing
When has a student mastered a skill? Part of the purpose of Standards-Based Grading is to help us answer this question. (I’d even say it helps us to articulate the question in the first place.)...
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A (Partial) Solution to the Feedback Swamp
October is when the quicksand hits. I’m up to my knees in student work and am starting to feel serious pangs of conscience for not being able to give every scrap of paper the care and attention that...
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Flying Blind: Teaching Without the Answer Key
David Coffey wrote a post about teachers giving students problems that they themselves don’t know the answers to–doing this deliberately, as a pedagogical strategy. I’d like to share an example from...
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A First Plank Across The Feedback Swamp
Much of my geometry class is built around a series of what I call Investigations. My students just wrapped up their work on the second one of the year. This Investigation explores different kinds of...
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