So we had our first meeting last month and the one thing that everyone was abuzz about was the possibility of travel before or after the program. So naturally, I spoke with my better half who had lived for some time in France, we had both seen much of Europe, and we decided that it would […]
Posts from February 2017
Engage your imagination’s Edu-drive!
Close your eyes and imagine the typical classroom. Chances are that you imagined a middle-aged man, standing at a lectern, droning on about f/p/s electron orbitals or the civil war’s status quo antebellum socio-economic effect on the primarily agrarian communities of the southern United States. Drone Professor Droning on about Drones It is no surprise […]
…but do we value what we assess?
I was caught by the title of the title of one this week’s reading “We assess what we value”. It really is a striking and concise title, but unfortunately, I don’t think that it’s entirely accurate. For many of us starting out, and perhaps for many seasoned educators as well, we grade on what we […]