Sometimes it is good to shake things up a bit to help get you out of your normal routine. Last fall, Rushton Hurley built The 5-Day Teacher Challenge to show that we can all get better at teaching by making just a few small changes. Each day of the challenge, you are asked to change one … Continue reading Shaking Things Up with a 5-Day Challenge
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Going to a conference is a pretty amazing experience. The energy that 4000 educators emit is incalculable. The chance to learn about new things is incomparable. The opportunity to get away from your students for a few days is invigorating. Oh yeah, and the freedom to go out to lunch like a real adult is...incredible! I … Continue reading Invest In Yourself – Attend a Conference!
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
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