Peter Dickinson seems concerned that places in the stories be real places…. The author describes mechanical processes in such detail that one feels quite sure they would work in reality—processes such as the mending of the motor boat's cooling system inThe Weathermongeror the ways in which th...
As a new teacher, you are most likely preparing your own classroom for the first time to begin the school year. We have created this New-Teacher Classroom Set-Up Guide to assist you in your planning. It is intended to help you:Manage the classroom’s rules, schedules, and goals.Begin ...
In Denniston’s AP class, BYOD worked. The school’s technical capacity to accommodate different devices–except for the brief moment the teacher went offline–was in place during the period I was there. The familiar flow of an AP class’s activities (or most history classes for that matter)...
Criteria-referenced assessment involves evaluating whether the student can perform a task or not; instructors are not concerned with the comparison among students. In translation classes, criteria-referenced tests are more frequent. Criterion referencing may be fairer from a student's point of view sin...
school activities (e.g., upcoming mini-bike racing event in Quad). In most schools where I observe classes, announcements are on the public address system and generally students ignore them as they drone on. I looked around and saw that all but a few of the students watched each ...
Classes that provide grades of simple pass/fail (or satisfactory/unsatisfactory) are excluded from the analysis. There are six different classes included in the analysis, as well as a measure of aggregate scores across all classes per quarter semester. The averaged aggregated scores and include ...