LCS Science Team Sharing

Online footprint and lessons about online citizenship

Harkness Table Philosophy Intoduction

Guide to Personalized Learning from BC Ministry of Education

Rubric to help with the design of Inquiry Based Projects from the Calgary Science School

Remember those textbook questions at the very end of the chapter that were never assigned 

Google Docs and Word can work together well.  Here's how with the new changes in Google.

Seeds of innovation exist at the edges of large systems, not as part of the mainstream.

Visual Approach to teaching Math.

Information about the Flipped Classroom and one bloggers thoughts on best practise.

Students can build learning networks in Science and Math.  Concerns about on-line technology use and presence discused by age level.

It's time to evolve our grading practices. We believe there are four primary characteristics of effective grading. Grades should be accurate, consistent, meaningful, and supportive of learning. Let's examine why these characteristics are so important and how we can achieve them.

Who would dispute the idea that feedback is a good thing? Both common sense and research make it clear: Formative assessment, consisting of lots of feedback and opportunities to use that feedback, enhances performance and achievement. Yet even John Hattie (2008), whose decades of research revealed that feedback was among the most powerful influences on achievement, acknowledges that he has "struggled to understand the concept" (p. 173). And many writings on the subject don't even attempt to define the term. To improve formative assessment practices among both teachers and assessment designers, we need to look more closely at just what feedback is-and isn't.