In episode 7, Kyle Pearce and Jon Orr talk with Making Math Moments That Matter online workshop participant, Sarah-Jane Wells about realizing her personal privilege has affected her teaching habits, how she’s been working on Sparking curiosity consistently to get kids engaged and keep them on task… and a BIG can of worms was opened when the conversation moved into assessment, evaluation and the role of descriptive feedback.

Show notes page http://makemathmoments.com/episode7

 

You’ll Learn:

• How to realize your own privilege and how that affects the classroom.
• How to teach your students meaningfully during the last block of the school day when students are wrangy!
• How we can effectively use assessment to further the learning of our students.

 

Resources:

• How Many Chip Bags Will There Be? - Robert Kaplinsky
• Sparking Curiosity Task Search Engine
• Standards Based Grading Gamified With Badges - A post on assessment with standard based grading
• Conall’s Assessment Story - A glimpse of using Freshgrade to capture evidence of learning

 

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