Helping Teachers Navigate the Next Generation Science Standards
A major focus of my STEM certification program last year was structuring the classroom to increase student autonomy. Why is student autonomy so important? Here are a few reasons: When students are able to make decisions in the classroom, they are more engaged. Making decisions (for example, choosing lab equipment for investigations) requires higher level …
Last Summer I got so many questions about digital interactive notebooks. I’d never used them before so I decided to play around with them this year in my classroom. I have been using a paper composition notebook with my students for the last nine years, and I wasn’t ready to give it up just yet. …
Look everyone! I created my first video. It basically took me about 10 hours to create this video on digital lesson planning. Not because the video editing is hard, but because words are hard. Especially battling this cold right now. There’s a lot of rambling and “um” and “so” action here. Also, I never …