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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...
Ril Mcknight
May 2, 20204 min read
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...
Ril Mcknight
Apr 29, 20205 min read
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...
Ril Mcknight
Apr 29, 20203 min read
Reflection
Reflection is concerned with consciously looking at and thinking about our experiences, actions, feelings, and responses, and then...
Ril Mcknight
Mar 5, 20202 min read
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...
Ril Mcknight
Mar 2, 20203 min read
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...
Ril Mcknight
Feb 24, 20202 min read
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...
Ril Mcknight
Jan 1, 20202 min read
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....
Ril Mcknight
Oct 24, 20194 min read
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...
Ril Mcknight
Sep 21, 20193 min read
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...
Ril Mcknight
Sep 14, 20193 min read
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. ...
Ril Mcknight
Sep 13, 20193 min read
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...
Ril Mcknight
Aug 31, 20192 min read
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...
Ril Mcknight
Jul 21, 20193 min read
Control
Control is an issue we all seem to deal with daily. Wanting control. Giving up control. Losing control. Keeping your control. It all...
Ril Mcknight
Jul 5, 20192 min read
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...
Ril Mcknight
Jun 3, 20192 min read
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...
Ril Mcknight
May 17, 20193 min read
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...
Ril Mcknight
May 8, 20192 min read
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...
Ril Mcknight
May 4, 20192 min read
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...
Ril Mcknight
Apr 13, 20192 min read
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...
Ril Mcknight
Apr 7, 20193 min read
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