How can you gauge if learning is happening?
How can we measure learning? That really is the question for the remainder of this school year. We are working in a crisis situation...
top of page
Search
Ril Mcknight
- Apr 29, 2020
- 5 min
The new normal
The new normal of school. What will this be? How will we be able to teach in this new normal. As our crisis teaching is coming to an...
33 views0 comments
Ril Mcknight
- Apr 29, 2020
- 3 min
I don't think they taught us this math in school.
As a Math-Science High School teacher for 30 years, I've heard many times from parents: What is this new math? What the heck is this...
12 views0 comments
Ril Mcknight
- Mar 5, 2020
- 2 min
Reflection
Reflection is concerned with consciously looking at and thinking about our experiences, actions, feelings, and responses, and then...
13 views0 comments
Ril Mcknight
- Mar 2, 2020
- 3 min
Elaborations
“When will I ever use this in the real world?” The question we all hate especially math educators. And Ill be honest sometimes I say...
13 views0 comments
Ril Mcknight
- Feb 24, 2020
- 2 min
Do you get graded in life?
During #crazypln chat the other day some things really had me thinking about grades. The tweet "Students can learn without grades, but...
8 views0 comments
Ril Mcknight
- Jan 1, 2020
- 2 min
Overcome
Well here it is January 1, 2020 and I am blogging about my #oneword2020. OVERCOME. Now why would I pick a word like that for 2020 when...
11 views0 comments
Ril Mcknight
- Oct 24, 2019
- 4 min
How does performance task assessment work in my classroom?
So I have been asked many times: how do you work the performance task assessment in you senior classes? Well I try to explain it here....
25 views0 comments
Ril Mcknight
- Sep 21, 2019
- 3 min
Identity
What is your identity? Your role in life? What are you know for? These are tough questions to ask yourself. But it's even tougher for...
10 views0 comments
Ril Mcknight
- Sep 14, 2019
- 3 min
How do you see math???
As I sat down today watching Shelley Moore's "See Ya Later SMART goals!", it hit me how her research should be used to help explain math...
42 views0 comments
Ril Mcknight
- Sep 13, 2019
- 3 min
A new beginning
Happiness is a fresh start. I am in the midst of a new beginning or as others see it the end or retirement from my teaching career. ...
7 views0 comments
Ril Mcknight
- Aug 31, 2019
- 2 min
Its about what students discover.
When this came across my screen the other day, I had my big aha moment. This meme resonates with me. It so aligns to my why in...
131 views0 comments
Ril Mcknight
- Jul 21, 2019
- 3 min
Not everything is as it seems.
Over the past bit of time I have been dealing with a heart issue that has kept me from my job as an educator. During this time, I still...
73 views0 comments
Ril Mcknight
- Jul 5, 2019
- 2 min
Control
Control is an issue we all seem to deal with daily. Wanting control. Giving up control. Losing control. Keeping your control. It all...
18 views0 comments
Ril Mcknight
- Jun 3, 2019
- 2 min
Performance Task Assessment
Every day of my life I am assess on my abilities to perform a task. Whether it is cooking, cleaning, gardening or working a job, I am...
20 views0 comments
Ril Mcknight
- May 17, 2019
- 3 min
Re-evaluating my why...
This morning a quote from a PLN fritter started me thinking again. She tweeted: Busy day! Doing a @fitwithfrank with the class, designing...
22 views0 comments
Ril Mcknight
- May 8, 2019
- 2 min
Twitter PLN
I have been a twitter person for eons but I have started using it to grow my professional learning network in the past few years. I find...
14 views0 comments
Ril Mcknight
- May 4, 2019
- 2 min
CAFLN conference 2019
We all seem to work in silos creating our lesson, unit plans, course outlines, projects and assessment. It seems to be the norm that...
18 views0 comments
Ril Mcknight
- Apr 13, 2019
- 2 min
Assessment for, as and of learning in Math
For over 30 years, I have been teaching high school math with a goal in mind of keeping it fun and rigorous. As a student, I found that...
16 views0 comments
Ril Mcknight
- Apr 7, 2019
- 3 min
Introvert on stage
This image is really an amazing replication of how I felt yesterday. You see the introvert me, was able to get out from behind and talk...
29 views0 comments
bottom of page