Jun
13
2011
13
2011
Sexy Data Analysis: Google Motion Charts
My district has started up a great summer professional development workshop series this summer. They asked teachers all over the district if they would like to teach a skill to other teachers, and in so doing, we have a ...
May
28
2010
28
2010
And My Job Quality is Based on These Tests?! (Updated)
So clearly we've all been thinking a lot about the necessity of test scores in making high stakes decisions. I mean, test scores seem to be used in everything these days: teacher evaluations, a student's college or career readiness, ...
Dec
19
2009
19
2009
Studies Find There’s No Such Thing as Learning Styles – As Teachers, Should We Care?
According to Psychcentral.com, "Learning Styles are being re-evaluated" and negated. This theory, according to a recently published journal article claims that there is really no research out there to prove that students learn differently from one another.
Shrug. Cue ...
May
05
2009
05
2009
Swine Flu and Test Scores
Here's yet another reason why test scores can't be the only way to gage teaching quality.
A colleague of mine, a fifth grade teacher, at the UCI Writing Project got a call last night from her automated phone tree saying ...



