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Chemistry, condoms and the Colosseum
The Colosseum, Rome One of the most successful inquiry activities that I did this year wasn’t successful because of my careful planning or my skill. It wasn’t successful because of expensive...
View ArticleFrom A to purple
Whenever I read an article or blog post, I think about it’s implications for teaching. I can’t help it. I’m a teacher 24-7-365. Drives my family nuts sometimes but it’s who I am. Reading Seth...
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On bunny trails and the need to know
Follow the white rabbit Sometimes my students lead me down a bunny trail. One question leads to another and, before we know it, we’re Through the Looking Glass. A discussion about atomic structure...
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My Educator’s Oath
Building off of my previous post, The Educator’s Hippocratic Oath, I thought I would write my own personal educator’s oath. I’m considering including it with my course syllabus this year. It will be...
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I used to think…
I USED TO THINK I was a good teacher when a student would remember something I had taught. I would swell with pride when a student would regurgitate a fact, an example, an analogy and I’d say to...
View ArticleWhy Project Based Learning is good for students (PBL Series Part 5)
Not only is the teacher’s life unique in the PBL classroom; students have a dramatically different experience in this model too. They may whine and complain at times, especially when a project is...
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