Looking Back at 10 years of EdCamps Oh how the time flies, EdCamp Madison is turning 10 this year! It will be held Saturday, February 3rd at Sun Prairie West High School. Which can be found at 2850 Ironwood Drive in Sun Prairie Wisconsin from 8:30 am - 3:00 pm. Get more information and register here: https://sites.google.com/sunprairieschools.org/edcampmadwi/home I will always remember sitting in my first EdCamp opening session at the very first EdCamp Madison and having no clue what I was in for. So, I’d like to take this space to go over some of the basic rules of EdCamp. No One Will Pitch It for You EdCamps are unconferences. By this I mean that they have a blank slate of sessions for the day. There may be a few predetermined sessions, but ultimately the session topics are determined by attendees during the pitch & plan session that opens the day. If an idea gets pitched there will be a session on it. If a topic doesn’t get pitched, there won’t be a session on it. So, it i
I'm proud to be representing Brookfield Central High School and Elmbrook Schools today at School Leaders Advancing Technology in Education (SLATE) Conference. This is my first year attending, so it's an honor to be able to present as well.
The focus of the presentation is on student choice in assessment. By that, I mean choice in how a student will demonstrate mastery of standards (both content and non-content specific). The presentation focuses on the why, what, and how of allowing choice. It is my belief that before we can have any discussion of what the choices will or should be, educators need a firm rationale for the importance of choice or why it is needed in their classroom. The next step is to determine the what. The "what" in our case are the standards students should be meeting. Only then are we prepared to discuss the how. This concrete definition of mastery is especially important if a lot of the choice in "how" will be left up to the students and their specific learning preferences. Below you'll find the presentation I'll be a part of today.
The focus of the presentation is on student choice in assessment. By that, I mean choice in how a student will demonstrate mastery of standards (both content and non-content specific). The presentation focuses on the why, what, and how of allowing choice. It is my belief that before we can have any discussion of what the choices will or should be, educators need a firm rationale for the importance of choice or why it is needed in their classroom. The next step is to determine the what. The "what" in our case are the standards students should be meeting. Only then are we prepared to discuss the how. This concrete definition of mastery is especially important if a lot of the choice in "how" will be left up to the students and their specific learning preferences. Below you'll find the presentation I'll be a part of today.
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