Some Thoughts on Teaching and Learning

It has been several years since I have used this journal, but I find it the most useful when I have a lot of new ideas from some PD. So, here goes. I'm at the EOSDN Conference focusing on assessment. I had forgotten how much of an assessment nerd I was in the day-to-day grind of teaching in my classroom, but I am happy that I have had the opportunity to take the time to think deeply about assessment again at this point in my career. It is something that I really enjoy puzzling through and trying to better myself as a teacher.  These are the notes that I took during the first day of the workshop. We focused mostly on developing success criteria with students. While this is something that I have done in the past, and feel relatively comfortable doing organically with students in math, I really don't have a handle on it in terms of how I teach science. Taking this opportunity to reflect on my practice means that I want to target a few things about how I am teaching my...