Kyle Pace posted a challenge during last night’s #edchat on encouraging teachers to adapt and change in response to the needs of today’s students.
It sent me thinking in a new direction about teacher evaluation as practiced by us teachers.
Apart from formal teacher evaluation, we evaluate one another all the time. We evaluate ourselves against [...]
[Editor's note: I've been extremely fortunate in being able to speak and msg with several pre-service teachers this Fall. Each and every one of them has helped me better articulate my beliefs and practices. They certainly are colleagues and a great addition to any PLN. This post goes out to all pre-service teachers [...]
Over at Twitter recently, @mctownsley pointed toward an earlier post at Edumacation about the tension between standards-based assessment and traditional grading.
Assessments, like any kind of data-based research, can be used by many people in many different ways.
One teacher might pump her fist in the air after seeing that 95% of her students passed this year’s reading [...]
Chad teaches humanities at a charter school and blogs on reforming classroom practice and democratic education.
