Paul CancellieriRe-#introduction:
I’m a 20-year veteran #science #teacher who loves the unique strangeness of #middleschool students. I am obsessed with teaching them how important #feedback about their learning is to making them more independent. I hate #grades.
davey@mrscienceteach I'm not clear what you mean by feedback: offering it to others? receiving it? both? particular contexts? heteodyning waveforms?
@davey Thanks for asking davey. Clearly I need to be more specific in my introduction. I mean teaching students to monitor their own learning and become more independent than they can when they rely on adults to always grade them.
@mrscienceteach I love it. I'm guessing you mean fact-checking, looking for alternate hypotheses, attempts to falsify, to look for confounds. someone who learns that is really making the grade, to make a painful pun but a sincere statement.
As a science/tech/standards writer, I felt a lot of responsibility to fact-check, to confirm my understanding. My editors helped me convey the ideas clearly--and when they screwed up I published corrections. When a reader said "You're wrong"; that was gold!
Charlyn@mrscienceteach I love that! That is the one thing that makes me want to go back to school to be a teacher. Being able to teach young minds so many different things to help them understand the world they’re being released to. Wish I had it myself in high school!
Julio 🏳️🌈 🇨🇺 🇪🇸 🇺🇸@mrscienceteach Welcome Paul.