Timely Snow

One of the neat things about teaching prospective teachers is that they’re really attuned to issues of instruction and articulate about what works and what doesn’t. Finding ways to harness that for instructional improvement is harder, because you don’t want to waste precious class time discussing the class itself, unless there’s not a better way. [...]

In the Educational Psychology course we teach to prospective teachers, we had gotten away from having any kind of exam. I’m told it was due to an effort to focus on “authentic activities,” in the belief that teachers don’t take exams (although all of our students are taking a state-mandated exam this weekend).  That struck [...]

There are a whole bunch of these vehicles in the parking structure on campus where I park when I drive in. It will be interesting to see what happens with them.