Here are a few of my favorite blog posts, organized by category. You can also check out my other writing featured in scholarly journals and my book. You can also check out some of my featured presentations from the menu above. They’re organized by general theme. Personally, I’m most proud of my mini-series, an attempt at longform blogging.
Geoff’s “Mini-series”
Education Commentary
- Preparing for a Post-SAT World
- Pastoral Care for Pre-Service Teachers
- Why don’t students feel like they’re learning? (when they actually are)
- Problem Based Learning and supporting English Language Learners
- Starting with the What
- In Defense of the Real World
- Critiquing the Common Core on its Merits and Demerits
- Toward changing teacher practice and mindsets
Academic Safety
Quality Tasks
- How a problem becomes a lesson
- Implicit Bias and the NFL Draft
- Where does a letter occur in a word? A matching activity
- Transversal Lesson: Street Views
- Geometric Constructions Task: Pizza Delivery Regions
- Post-It Problem
- Hot Rod Quadratics: Let’s jump this jump!
- Systems of Linear Inequalities: Paleontological Dig
- Revisiting the 2000 election with statistics
- Guy racing another guy in a squirrel costume
- A Problem Based Learning Starter Kit
Effective Facilitation
- The next steps in classroom conversation orchestration
- Permission to Practice
- When to scaffold, if at all
- Lectures, various types
- Better (or at least less destructive) test prep
Assessment
- Geoff’s Common Core Standards of Mathematical Practice Rubric
- Your Student Portfolio System Begins Now
- Portfolio Problems: Rebuilding Assessment with Rich Tasks
- Assessment via Audibles
Errata
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