Tag: reflection
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Feedback FOR Learning
My students are starting to wrap up their first project of the school year, which is to create a model of a food web. They are doing some amazing work … and I couldn’t be happier with all they have accomplished so far. At this point in the process, we start peer reviewing to get…
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Why Don’t Report Cards Look Like Social Media?
Imagine it for a second. What if report cards looked like Twitter? Or Facebook? Or Instagram? I’ve heard a few people toss this idea around recently. At first, I couldn’t wrap my mind around it. But the more I pondered the idea, the more it started to make sense. Think about it. It could be really…
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Student Perspective on the Shift to Standards-Based Grading
Last week, I had a very enlightening conversation with my students. My district is transitioning to a standard-based report card next year, which includes the removal of letter grades from our system. I have been using standards-based learning and grading in all of my sixth grade science classes throughout this current year, so my students are…
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What It Felt Like to Have a Blank Grade Book
It was ten days until the end of the quarter, and my grade book still did not have a single grade in it. The grades were coming, so I was starting to breathe a little easier, but still … eight weeks in and not a single published grade. At the start of the…
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Science is for Everyone …
Before teaching, I spent five years doing chemistry work in the labeling industry. I always had a very mixed reaction when I would tell people what I did. People would make the immediate connection to their school science classes and then proceed to tell me that they either loved science or they hated it. After…
Katie Budrow 