Methods

Methods for teaching in a digital enviornment

Three Components of Digital Feedback

by D. Weeks
December 28, 2024December 28, 2024

It used to be commonplace for teachers to give written feedback to students on the paper assignments that they turned in. However, as districts moved to digital grade books and student information systems, much of this feedback faded away. While much of this feedback is given to students in other forms, there are common practices among feedback practices. Feedback to students is a critical part of the learning process, as it closes the information processing loop, and it allows students to learn from the mistakes and problems that they make during learning the learning process. Solid and effective feedback must have three major components for it to be useful and effective for students: specific, articulable, and actionable. These three components make feedback given to students on daily assignments and assessments useful to allow them to take corrective action in the learning process.

Adding a Drawing Tablet to Improve Grading and Feedback

by D. Weeks
January 5, 2024June 20, 2024

This past calendar year, I have been working to improve my grading and assessment processes. I want to make these processes transparent, streamlined, and provides… Read More »Adding a Drawing Tablet to Improve Grading and Feedback

Creating Handouts & Worksheets for Print and Digital Use

by D. Weeks
October 7, 2023January 14, 2024

Over the past decade education at all levels has been moving to digital content delivery through the use of various learning management systems (LMS). However,… Read More »Creating Handouts & Worksheets for Print and Digital Use

Saving a Google Doc as a Different Document Type

by D. Weeks
March 24, 2023January 14, 2024

Giving Feedback in the Digital Classroom

by D. Weeks
March 18, 2023June 20, 2024

Whether you are in math, ELA, science, design, art or a multitude of other subjects most share a learning process of input, process, output, feedback.… Read More »Giving Feedback in the Digital Classroom

Creating an Image Caption in Google Docs

by D. Weeks
March 8, 2023August 7, 2023

Google Docs doesn’t directly have a way to create image captions in their program, however there are several ways to create this effect fairly easily… Read More »Creating an Image Caption in Google Docs

Fixing the Late Work Problem

by D. Weeks
September 29, 2019June 20, 2024

Late work is problem many teachers struggle to solve, in this article we will provide a couple of solutions to this problem.

Bring Design Critiques Back to the Classroom

by D. Weeks
February 2, 2019June 20, 2024

This leads to the question of what is a design critique? A design critique is any type of meeting in which designers present unfinished materials to colleagues to get feedback. This feedback can range in breadth from positive comments about aspects that work to aspects that don’t work and should possibly be revised. Using feedback from peers to improve design concepts is the primary purpose of the design critique, it gives the designer to a chance to make improvements to the design. Typically, in these types of open feedback processes some ground rules or norms are adhered to, usually a set of 3-4 questions are posed to a group (should be at least 5 people) and they focus commentary on how the designs answer those questions. Keep in mind, the purpose of this type of meeting is to evaluate existing ideas for future direction or changes.

Building Classroom Data: Tying Lessons to Standards

by D. Weeks
September 25, 2018June 20, 2024

Education is being pushed to become and more data driven, instead of a teacher’s hunch that something needs to be changed it needs to be data that makes the decisions now. One of the most important pieces of data a teacher can use is achievement data.