I would love to be able to sit down individually with each of my students and talk through our most recent activity, lesson, standard, etc. More importantly, I would love to hear my students think. I would love to watch them as they explain how all the pieces fit together. I would love to fill in … Continue reading Using Video to Hear Student Thinking
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The story below is a fictional tale about how the Stanford Design model can solve an educational problem. All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. If the embedded paper does not appear, please click here. http://issuu.com/dhoekstra78/docs/finalreflectionpaper?e=22295757/35300840
What would be needed to make high school students want to come to class? What does it take to get students to show up excited, energized and ready to learn? These questions and more are at the heart of my Problem of Practice - to re-design my SIMPLE Learning Cycle in AP Biology. As I … Continue reading How the Stanford Design Model Influenced my Problem of Practice
A few weeks ago, I designed a prototype for my Problem of Practice. While the goal of my POP is to redesign my SIMPLE Learning Cycle in AP Biology (in an attempt to create a more hands-on, relevant and personalized learning environment) my prototype started at square 1 - the organization of topics and the … Continue reading Testing with Teachers
If you have been following my previous blog posts, you are aware of my Problem of Practice - Redesigning my SIMPLE Learning Cycle. Last week I created a prototype for the organization of my AP Biology class. This week, it is time to test it! The testing of my AP Biology Organization prototype includes reaching … Continue reading Testing my Prototype
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