Steps toward excellence: Making sure you assess the right things
Step 2 of getting good at online teaching: Aligning assessments with learning objectives, and grading systems with assessments.
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Steps toward excellence: The power of learning objectives
The first step toward excellence in online teaching isn't technological but structural, in the form of clear and measurable learning objectives.
How to have students submit handwritten work in an online setting
Here's my simple solution to the problem of collecting student work in an online setting that would normally be done by hand.
The owner and the renter in education
Do our teaching practices encourage students to own what they learn, or just rent it?
What to do about Algebra 2?
A recent Forbes article calls for replacing Algebra 2 with computational thinking. What's good about that idea and what needs more careful thought?