I love Grey’s Anatomy. There. I’ve said it. I love Meredith, and I love Izzy, and most of all, I love Dr. McDreamy in all of his McDreamyishness. Wait, don’t leave…I totally have something relevant to say about all of this today. See, there is something that these characters have in common with pre-service and inservice teachers: they are all students as well. The great thing about teaching is that we are always continuing to…
When I first began teaching, I was passionate about performance-based assessment, and the first groups of students that I taught found themselves engaged in upwards of ten different performance-based assessments each year. My seniors wrote I-Search reports ala Ken Macrorie, and when I taught eighth grade, my students were performing everything from the meaning of their vocabulary words to the scripts that they wrote as a part of their Cast of Characters projects. These were…