This year’s Mathematics Summit was held as a two-day preconference event at the NADE Annual Conference in Anaheim in March. Once again the Summit brought together those in the “front lines” of developmental mathematics education and first credit math courses to discuss different approaches for implementing, adjusting, or redesigning mathematics courses with the methods…
What happens when you get elementary school teachers together for immersive, hands-on summer science workshops? It can be an electrifying experience, as participants in the Quality Elementary Science Teaching (QuEST) program in Missouri found out this past summer in Columbia. The theme of the 2015 summer institute centered on circuits and energy. Elementary teachers took…
Along with Drs. Joanna Smith and Heather McClure of the University of Oregon, I recently spent 10 days exploring Education City, an international higher education hub in Doha, Qatar, on the Arabian Peninsula. Qatar has begun pursuing a national vision to transition its economy by 2030, from one based on the production of natural gas…
Program evaluation is always interesting, some days more than others! Right now I’m in Columbia, MO, for the National Science Foundation-funded Quality Elementary Science Teaching (QuEST) Summer Institute 2015. My colleague, Tracy Bousselot, and I are in our second year in attendance at this hands-on gathering of Missouri elementary teachers working to enhance their understanding…
Ross Anderson, senior lead researcher at EPIC, penned an article for Eugene’s Register-Guard about ArtCore, a new arts education program to be implemented in five Lane County Schools, through a partnership between EPIC, Lane Arts Council, the Springfield Public Schools, and others. This article originally appeared in the Register Guard but has since been archived:…
A science teacher explains how student feedback helped him to improve his lesson plans and calls on other teachers to revolutionize the way they teach.
Young girls lip dub a scene of a math teacher trying to teach a lesson to a student who is just not understanding.
Performance Assessment Links in Science (PALS )is a resource bank of science performance assessment tasks for Grades K-12 that are indexed to the National Science Education Standards (NSES) and other standards frameworks.
The Classroom Sample Tasks blend content, practices, and concepts from both the NGSS and the CCSS. Teachers across the disciplines have collaborated to write sample tasks, which are the result of a vision of integrating science, engineering, and mathematics for classroom use.
The Inside Mathematics website hosts grade-level formative performance assessment tasks with accompanying scoring rubrics and discussion of student work samples.