by alicjawp | Sep 29, 2020 | Capstone, Lit Circles, Presentations, Technology, Tinkering, Uncategorized
Full disclosure: before COVID and eLearning, I, despite being an avid user of Google Classroom almost since its inception, still used paper rubrics to give students feedback. I would give comments and suggestions in their Google Docs but I would still circle and...
by alicjawp | Jul 2, 2020 | Compass Tool, Featured, Infographic, PBL, Project Based Learning, Social Justice, Systems Thinking, Uncategorized
* I teach at a private school in Mexico with a predominantly Mexican student population with a few students from the USA and a few minority students, mostly from South Korea and India. My ideas for teaching presented here are for these students in mind. “The...
by alicjawp | May 15, 2019 | Collaboration, Compass Tool, Innovation, Technology, Uncategorized
Who would’ve thought that documenting the awesome teaching activities that support sustainability and the environment could be done via My Google Maps? At ASFG we’ve been organizing a Earth Day oriented meeting meant to support sustainability for approximately the...
by alicjawp | Mar 6, 2019 | Collaboration, Social Justice, TECHO, Uncategorized, Week Without Walls
The trip where so much went wrong but the students learned so much! In education, there is a lot of talk about experiential learning: “the process whereby knowledge is created through the transformation of experience. Knowledge results from the combinations of...
by alicjawp | Dec 6, 2018 | Collaboration, Featured, Running, Uncategorized
My last blog post was posted right around when I started training for my marathon and it took several months of training and the actual marathon (and recovery weeks!) to finally write a new post that is not coincidentally about running AND teaching. And while the...
by alicjawp | Aug 14, 2018 | Innovation, Uncategorized
Recently a colleague (and friend!) recommended a book by Shawn Achor called The Happiness Advantage. The premise of the book is that happy people are successful; not that success leads to happiness, as is commonly believed. Achor works with Fortune 500 companies to...
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