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Rethink the prioritization of content in your course and use it to provide high quality instruction. Learn new ways to view critical content for your students.

Backward course design forces us, as faculty, to make tough decisions about what content is really needed for our students to achieve their learning goals.

The blogger describes some of the dangers in simply telling kids to adopt a growth mindset. Then offers an alternative approach - see additional posts on talking points.

Looking at growth vs fixed in student learning...

Super Quiz is an add-on for Google sheets/forms - give quick feedback to students from a quiz (in a form). This is tutorial to get started.

This is great. Could be powerful for organizing formative evaluations and making the information easier to access

Unlike the sequels to movies, I hope that part two of last year's Energy and Calm post will continue to strengthen your understanding of how our brains naturally learn, think, and behave. So let's return to the calming yet energizing zone of focused attention practices and brain breaks, a place that would greatly benefit students -- and their teachers -- when revisited frequently.

Unlike the sequels to movies, I hope that part two of last year's Energy and Calm post will continue to strengthen your understanding of how our brains naturally learn, think, and behave. So let's return to the calming yet energizing zone of focused attention practices and brain breaks, a place that would greatly benefit students -- and their teachers -- when revisited frequently.