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Teaching & Learning Kathleen Almy Teaching & Learning Kathleen Almy

What have we learned?

Most of us will be going back to in-person learning in the fall, but we can’t go back to exactly how things were before the pandemic started. What are these lessons we have learned, and how do we use them when we see our students in person again?

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Educational Reform Kathy Almy Educational Reform Kathy Almy

Redesign Doesn’t Happen in a Vacuum

Redesign always takes longer and is more involved than we first expect it to be. With many unforeseen components, those simple suggestions to “improve a course” or “enhance a placement policy” don’t stop there. Instead, they’re simply starting points. In this post, I give you practical information on the role of buy-ins, funding, and other impacted areas that will help you navigate your own redesign.

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Teaching & Learning Arlene Vinion Dubiel Teaching & Learning Arlene Vinion Dubiel

Project-based learning

In this blog, we explore some of the benefits of engaging students in PBL and provide practical advice for how to implement PBL successfully. We will focus on PBL in relation to mathematics teaching and learning and address transitional math.

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Teaching & Learning Arlene Vinion Dubiel Teaching & Learning Arlene Vinion Dubiel

Feedback for Learning

Formative assessments take many different forms: exit tickets, quizzes, rough drafts of written assignments, prototypes for projects, and more. Whenever you have evidence of students learning, it can be used as a formative assessment. Even the summative test results can be used to see areas of strengths and weaknesses to inform the teaching of future classes.

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Educational Reform Kathy Almy Educational Reform Kathy Almy

Developmental Math and Equity

Developmental math in its traditional form poorly serves students who need it the most. These are the students who have the greatest challenges to overcome, often through circumstances beyond their control. For as much as has been done in this arena, there are still so many issues with developmental math. And those problems are only worse when we drill down in the data and disaggregate it.

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Educational Development Arlene Vinion Dubiel Educational Development Arlene Vinion Dubiel

Futures of Education

As we prepare for schools to reopen in the near future, we need to ask if we truly want to go back to exactly how things were before the pandemic started. We have an opportunity to make changes for the better for our whole nation. What lessons have we learned and what do we want our educational system to look like?

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