CFT Resources for Teachers

This relatively new site from Discovery has some great resources for integrating STEM into the curriculum. It also gives students a look into future career paths.

MIAMI — In a distressed neighborhood north of Miami's gleaming downtown, a group of enthusiastic but inexperienced instructors from Teach for America is trying to make progress where more veteran teachers have had difficulty: raising students' reading and math scores.

A personalized newspaper built from articles, blog posts, videos and photos selected by Center for Teaching.

A personalized newspaper built from articles, blog posts, videos and photos selected by Jason Ramsden. Really good site to review on a regular basis.

Curriculum challenge for Science teachers in grades 7-12.

Each element in the Periodic Table is explained in a YouTube video which you can access via a QR code. Very cool & creative use of QR codes.

This is REALLY cool. I love this Chris and will share it with many others. CLEVER. Bob

Props to Adrian D. He supposedly has it on either his office or classroom door. I found the link in his response to a student's query about it on his blog.

I've honestly never considered this before. Whether you agree with the chart's conclusions is obviously open for discussion, but the chart left me thinking about specifically WHY we assign HW and what we should be doing about it.

Given technology, can homework be used as a means to (a) differentiate assessment, (b) have students demonstrate understanding via a different modality, (c) scaffold learning to further enhance the classroom experience. For a while, Howard Gardner experimented at Harvard with assigning his lectures as homework. Students watched videos and then came to class prepared to engage in discussion. Could a similar approach be taken at the high school level?

Chris: I think this flow chart is very interesting and worthy of considerable discussion. I like it. I would tweak it a bit. For example, I think you could (and should) give application homework that is formative as well as summative. I think all types of homework that fit with all six levels of Bloom's taxonomy could be given both formatively and summatively. The only homework that should be "graded" is homework that leads to end-of-learning assessment. If the homework is given in the process of learning, then it should not be graded but should receive feedback, both from the instructor as well as from the student(s).

Share this with your students who have a unique interest in STEM fields. Good resources, ideas, webinars, etc. Bob Ryshke

Loving this question for all the math reasons, but I'm also pretty psyched about the idea of using scratch-off stickers!

A blog where Warren Stokes publishes new mazes he has created. Every day! What a cool project. You really need to check out the amazing creativity of this site!

A mathematical focus, but also great commentary on teacher hesitancy regarding math. Reform is NOT about "high-energy teachers [giving] vague tasks to groups of interested students."

CAST - the Center for Applied Science & Technology - has released a new web site devoted to UDL (Universal Design for Learning). Next week, they are also opening a UDL Resource Center.