Assessment – Putting it all together

We have learned an incredible amount about assessment this summer.  We learned that there are really two types of assessment.  Assessment of learning and assessment for learning. Assessment for learning happens while learning is still going on.   It can be used to promote and facilitate learning. “These are the assessments that we conduct throughout teaching [...]

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Conferences and Portfolio’s – Key Idea’s

The Key idea this week in Assessment was about portfolio’s and parent teacher conferences.  We learned about helping students put portfolio’s together to showcase the work they’ve done over time in the class, including examples of  reading, thinking,writing,interacting and demonstrating their knowlege.We also learned about parent teacher and parent, student, teacher conferences and how to [...]

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School to Job – How to link science to the real world

I think there are many exciting ways to link a middle school science class to the working world. One of the things I would love to incorporate into my classroom is visiting ‘teachers’.  Having someone in the community who works in a biotech company developing new medications or diagnostics tests for example, would make a [...]

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Journals as self and teacher assessment tools

Journaling does amazing things for students.  A journal can help a student improve their writing, increase their understanding of what they are learning and reinforce what they are learning with their own lives. I plan to use journaling in my middle school science classes to give students a format to reflect upon what we are [...]

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Learning Illustrated

Ask a Question Do Background Research Construct a Hypothesis Test Your Hypothesis by Doing an Experiment Analyze Your Data and Draw a Conclusion Communicate Your Results

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