Education
In which Dan discusses what makes meaningful assessment with Tyler Rablin (@Mr_Rablin), an English teacher and instructional coach in Washington state. They talk student voice in the assessment process, why quality feedback matters and why sometimes students just won't take the feedback, and how ideas like growth mindset and grit can be used to get teachers off the hook for our bad practices. As always hit us up with questions and comments on Twitter @BigIdeaEd Mentioned in the show:Tyler Rablin's professional websiteTyler's grade book template -- organized by skill, not assignmentTyler's student conferences templateSeven reasons for standard-based grading from EdutopiaThe debate over growth mindset from the Scientific AmericanMusic: "Que Es Extraño" by Molo