This short post by Shelly Blake Plock has been on my mind since school let out. How can I not plan my class better? It ties into the post about Girls in Technology too. I want to make my class more student-centered and problem-based. I already teach the majority of my class as problem-based, but currently I create the problems for the students. I am thinking of ways to get students involved in creating the problems themselves.
Problems are supplies, unmotivated students,
Shawn Cornally at Think Thank Thunk has the most fascinating blog to me right now. It is about math, calculus, science, physics, and standards based grading. He is passionate and articulate.
But what I like about it most is that he captures and actually does what I mean by student centered learning. I don’t care what subject or grade you teach his methods are inspiring. Check out this and this (particularly the student grants) as excellent examples of what it looks like in the classroom. This is so much better than a teacher at the board or questions from a textbook.
So yeah, I would love to sit in his class…