Sat, Jun 27, 2020 9:59 PM in 3-dimensional assessment
Your assessment should be covering concepts and practices your students have practiced! Is your assessment providing instruction? Maybe try limiting your assessments to individual concepts and/or practices and do them more often but in shorter small chunks. I have seen lots of examples where there is front-loaded explanation and data. But if your students have worked with the concepts before they...
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Thu, Jun 18, 2020 6:31 PM in Embedding Practices in Assessment-Biology
How have you embedded different practices into performance tasks in your biology instruction, especially during online learning? What format have these assessments been in and how do you ensure students are progressing in the online teaching format?
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Thu, Jun 04, 2020 2:26 PM in Motivation in Science/Engineering Over The Web
The end of this school year was unpresedented to say the least. It was my first year teaching high school biology and I had a very difficult time keeping up rigor and balancing grace while grading. Motivation was already an issue with students while we were on-campus and it got even worse when things went online. I'm looking to discuss tips and resources for increasing student motivation in o...
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