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Differentiation Through Projects
Differentiation of projects at the proposal stage has been an effective way to meet students where they are in their understanding of course material. Students will naturally select their own level of difficulty when proposing projects. 2005-06 Musical Instrument Project 2001-02 Teaching Elementary Math My first assigned project. In these groups, I distributed the mathematical…
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Presentations on Teaching to a Changing World
Teaching is an interesting challenge. While we are teaching content now, we are also preparing students for 10 years from now. This felt achievable when I started in 2001, there was no expectation of significant change by 2011 (we were wrong of course as smart phones, social media and streaming changed the media and social…
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Tech Curriculum Pathways
The tech discipline has unique challenges and opportunities. On the one hand, we have no graduation requirement (in US) so we don’t have a great way to capture all students, on the other, we have a lot of family, and societal pressure to take our courses. With our small slice of the curriculum (which is…
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Number of the Day
Number of the day, later expanded to infographic of the day. Was an effort in data science to bring some student presentations into the classroom. The assignment was to find some datum on the web and bring it in for discussion. If it was a number, we would have the student say the number and…
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Partnered Notes
I first experienced partnered notes in the course Protecting Information, an elective at Williams College. Our co-teachers from the realms of math and physics were running a course on cryptography from the Romans up to theoretical quantum cryptography that would be available in the future. As students, we were assigned in pairs to produce notes…
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Handling Split Roles
Many of us at EPS inhabit split roles. Part teacher, part something else. tl;dr; come talk to me; I would love to help you navigate this challenge It is hard. It is hard to feel responsible for a domain of the school and still make the necessary time for grading, lesson planning, and student meeting…