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Every student deserves an educational experience that meets their needs. For many students that means that they first need to learn the skills to be a successful student. In the creation of my ultimate unit and my virtual learning manifesto were both developed from this belief. My ultimate unit creation is focused on meeting one of the needs that I see as an area of concern with my students- executive functioning skills. Every day I see that there are gaps in this area and th

While assessment can occur just for the sake of assessment, students can better demonstrate their learning within a real world context. My sandcastle assessment was developed for my 7th grade virtual math students. This assessment is focused on a real world engaging context that allows students to apply their learning in a genuine way. For this assessment students are asked to act like a travel agent to create an itinerary for a client. Ideally I would have given this to stud

Click Here To Access Student Copy As we live in a virtual world technology is a key element that shapes both what we do and the results we receive. As a virtual teacher when I am providing feedback and collecting data I am pushed to challenge students to move beyond AI and add a personal touch to their work. “While AI can generate content, it can’t build trust, provide emotional support, or create the kind of collaborative learning that happens when humans work together towar

In the world of education we are teetering on a line between human interaction and the technological advancements which are entering into the field. As a virtual teacher I am often evaluating the best way to incorporate technology while still providing students with the human relationships to support their instruction. One of the ways I often use technology to support my students is through using it to auto-grade students. By using technology to auto-grade responses students

Oftentimes while thinking of assessment my initial image is of students sitting and taking written assessments silently and individually. Just because this is the view of what assessment looks like does not mean it is what gets the most accurate results of what a student actually knows about a concept. “Rather than using a single test, of one type, at the end of teaching, effective teacher-assessors gather lots of evidence along the way, using a variety of methods and formats

Co-crafting Questions Routine Sometimes in teaching things are based on good ideas but fall short in practice. One of the assessments I...

While planning my small groups this year I used a variety of assessments to best identify individual needs of students. One of the...

Students’ in school experience, especially in secondary classrooms, is often controlled and defined by student grades. Everything...