Lord of the flies aha moment professional#

If you try to do everything at once it can be overwhelming. For example if you are used to giving multiple choice tests, there is nothing wrong with starting with multiple choice test. Stick with a format that you know to start. Tips for new Edulastic users:ĭon’t try to do everything at once. I like the Mastery Gradebook Report for that- it’s been really helpful for getting to this point. It’s a big shift from what I’ve done my whole career so it definitely takes time. That means moving away from traditional “you failed the test you’re done”, and moving towards allowing kids to grow and demonstrate knowledge multiple times and multiple ways. I’m moving towards standards-based grading, so that’s a big goal as a teacher. Well I’m finishing up my National Board Certification this year so that’s my teaching goal. So it was only when I sat down, and looked at it for an hour or two and really tried some of the sample questions and started to brainstorm “ Oh, I could ask this, this way” It was really when I played with it that I knew “This is the tool I need to use.” What are your teaching/learning goals this school year? You can’t’ take the state test because it’s confidential and even the practice tests only give you so much. It’s one thing to look at a poster that says “tech-enhanced questions.” A lot of times it’s hard to really understand what that means. I think it really clicked when I sat down and worked with it for a little bit.

I’ve been trying to tell teachers about it and the main reason I tell them is because you can ask better questions, you get at what students actually know, and you don’t have to spend all your time grading. I teach at our new teacher induction for science teachers and have presented Edulastic as a new tool for them.

Lord of the flies aha moment professional#

I have been giving professional development to teachers around the district. I came back to my group at school and told them Edulastic was what I was using now and got started with my students. Then I saw a demo happening at the booth and I did one of those things where my head stopped but my body kept moving and I thought “Hold on, what was that?” Then I probably spent about two hours there playing with it. So I was walking past the booth and saw a poster and didn’t think anything of it. I just happened to be walking past the booth and it caught my eye because I had been looking for ways to ask tech-enhanced question for a while because we had started giving online tests. I ran into Edulastic about three and a half years ago at the ISTE Conference in Philadelphia. It’s the only thing I’ve ever wanted to do! I actually have it up in the classroom as a reminder of my passion. When I started teaching, many years later, my parents found the yardstick when they were moving and they framed it. whatever” ? I wrote like that on the yardstick as a little kid because I was three years old and wanted to be a teacher. You know how teachers write their name as “Mr. When I went to daycare as a child when I lived in Pennsylvania and they had this yardstick from CVS or wherever. I was about three or four years old when I decided wanted to be a teacher. When did you realize you wanted to teach? I became a science teacher so I could be a science geek for a living. I am a huge science nerd and I wanted to make little science nerds- and that’s why I teach science! I wanted to share my love of all things “sciencey” with the next generation.

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