As a newish AP Seminar teacher, I feel a little overwhelmed with the amount I have to cover with my students. Luckily, it is almost all inquiry-based skills. Charged with helping students through three types of performance tasks (an argument analysis, a team research project and presentation, and an individual research project and presentation), I […]
Peer feedback has great potential. It can help students gain a clearer understanding of an assignment’s expectations. It can provide valuable suggestions for improvement. It can highlight kids’ areas of expertise. And, hey, at it’s best, it can even cut back on a teacher’s grading workload! However, it can also yield the dreaded, waste-of-time response, […]
When you’re a little kid, you’re a little bit of everything: artist, scientist, athlete, scholar. Sometimes it seems like growing up is the process of giving those things up one by one. I guess we all have one thing we regret giving up–one thing we really miss that we gave up because we were too […]
If you can’t tell already, we love inquiry here; however, students aren’t always on board right away. Introducing them to inquiry can be a little tricky because students will respond to more responsibility in varying ways. Some will celebrate more freedom; others will become anxious over the amount of choice. I want to strike a […]