As teachers, there are few lessons for which we can each claim originality. This one is no different; it’s a combination of the well known “Postcards” activity and some ideas about using Twitter I got from teachers at the reading…
Using ZipGrade to assess the Curriculum Framework
When I was in high school, my teachers simply lectured, tested, and moved on to the next chapter. Each unit was a standardized performance repeated by the teacher every year; anything we missed was content lost and most of us finished the year with…
2015 AP Summer Institute Day 3
Day Three. Today we introduced resources on teaching Period 3 (600-1450) and dealt with the Comparison Essay. In my experience, students struggle a little more with content in Period 3. They don’t come in with the background information they had for Period…