Does student work meet science standards?

What a powerful way to improve your own teaching! Teachers nationwide meet to critique each others lessons and then analyze examples of students' work. Using help from their peers teachers... See More

What a powerful way to improve your own teaching! Teachers nationwide meet to critique each others lessons and then analyze examples of students' work. Using help from their peers teachers determine if their students have met certain standards. This is a wonderful way to discern if you are correctly determining the attainment of certain academic goals. I believe that this method would be an excellent evaluation technique for science departments to use.

Helping Each Other

This article describes a professional development program that assists teachers in getting their students to understand state standards in New York. This approach is both an online and in p... See More

This article describes a professional development program that assists teachers in getting their students to understand state standards in New York. This approach is both an online and in person group discussions. A teacher presents a lesson and three samples of students’ work. The group then provides suggestions for improvement which the presenting teacher uses. Student achievement is again evaluated to indicate how much the students had improved their knowledge of the concept and standards in science.