Wednesday, March 25, 2020

My Day

Read two hours in The Knowledge Gap this morning; my SORA ebook. Wexler's arguments for content being inextricably bound to reading comprehension beginning to seem overwhelming. she points out that even teacher PD, when it is specifically targeted to content rather than presented as a free-standing skill "to practice", is much more effective.

Studied on the OPALS tutorial for taking inventory.

After yesterday's SLS meeting, I investigated FlipGrid as a student contact/interaction tool. Watched several instructional tutorials and downloaded it to my device for experimentation. My first reaction is that it seems a little lean for discourse, but probably useful as a check-in tool.

Did my weekly read of the Chronicle of Higher Education (online, this time) to identify and farm out appropriate articles; sent one of early survey findings on freshman decision-making for colleges to our Guidance Office. another article about how college faculty are making the crossover to online teaching (sooo much like our own!) offered various suggestions: pair up students, post benchmarks but don't assess, assess as pass/fail, science students proposing research experiments rather than conducting labs.

And emails,emails,emails.

No comments: