Posts Tagged by YISS
Another classroom model
| February 1, 2011 | Posted by Brian Bennett under All, Mastery |
Again, I’m still trying to figure out how to run my class. The mastery method is great, but it is very hard to assess student work effectively. So, day to day, a student may be doing well, but when it comes to test time, they really struggle putting ideas together. Students expressed frustration to me… more
Open-source fever
| December 9, 2010 | Posted by Brian Bennett under All, Technology |
I’ve developed a fever over the past week. I found a program called MacPorts, an open-source project aimed at making other open-source projects available to people. It all started when I was looking for a way to run Windows-based programs on my Mac. There is a program called Wine out there that “tricks” the program… more
The Mol Project
| November 18, 2010 | Posted by Brian Bennett under All, Projects |
I started teaching the concept of the mol (not the animal…the amount) in chemistry this week. The problem is, the mol is such an impossibly large number to comprehend (6.02 x 10^23, or 602 sextillion, or 602 followed by 21 zeros) students often don’t grasp the quantity of things we are attempting to count. So,… more
Parent conferences…how to explain?
| September 10, 2010 | Posted by Brian Bennett under All, Mastery |
One of the challenges I’ve faced so far this year is explaining to parents how the class works and trying to convince some of them that this method is pedagogically sound. The biggest question I get from parents is: “With instruction based on videos and podcasts, what do you actually do in class? How is… more
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