Author: Geoff
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Part 2: Establishing Common and Specific Outcomes
This is Part 2 of a mini-series on a rubric masterclass. Be sure to check out the Intro post and subsequent posts. We’ve spent the last 5+ years in the math education community advocating for teachers and students to have a growth mindset. We tell students that they can and, in fact, do continue to…
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A Rubric Masterclass Part 1: Selecting Rubric Worthy Tasks
This is Part 1 of a mini-series on rubrics. Be sure to check out the Intro post and subsequent posts. It took me a while to figure out the whole rubric game. I’ll admit, I was relatively anti-rubric in the middle of my career. Maybe that’s because I wasn’t shown how to construct one. Maybe…
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A Rubric Masterclass
This blog post introduces a new mini-series from Emergent Math: A Rubric Masterclass. Be sure to check out Geoff’s previous mini-series: Routines, Lessons, Problems, and Projects and Your Math Syllabus Boot Camp. The past two summers I’ve created Emergent Math “miniseries”. They’re an opportunity to do a deep dive into crucial aspects of the math…
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Preparing for a Post-SAT World
Over the past year many universities made the SAT or ACT optional for college applications. Students could opt to submit their test scores or bypass taking the test entirely. This was spurred in part by the fact that COVID screwed up any kind of reliability (such as it was) of standardized test. At some higher…
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Interest in a Virtual Math Portfolio Assessment Cohort for 2021-2022
(Update 5/25/21: The window for the interest form is closed. However, be sure to follow this blog for updates on the cohort as well as other assessment commentary.) The tl;dr version: I’m seeking secondary teachers interested in designing and implementing a portfolio system of assessment in their class. Interest form link below. I’m currently wrapping…
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Pastoral Care for Pre-Service Teachers
Schools and teachers have no incentives to foster a nurturing atmosphere for student teachers. Unless the school expects to hire the student teacher, there’s no inherent reason for a school to particularly care whether or not the student teacher makes education a lifelong passion or if they burn out and never even enter the profession.…
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Implicit Bias and the NFL Draft: Are Teams Under Drafting Non-White Quarterbacks?
The 2021 NFL Draft is next week. And, as is often the case, quarterbacks are expected to be drafted highly and dominate the narrative. In a game with 22 starters (plus kickers and punters!) quarterbacks routinely dominate the top selections of the NFL Draft. And it makes sense. If you land a quality quarterback, you’re…
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“Nathan For You” is here to fix businesses, rate of work problems
“Nathan For You” is a docu-series on Comedy Central (episodes available on Hulu) in which comedian and Canadian good-grades-getter Nathan Fielder “fixes” business by suggesting out of the box ideas to bring in new customers. These ideas includes amping up the scariness of a haunted house by telling the attendees they’ve contracted a fatal airborne…
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