Gamifying the History Classroom: A Black Death Choice Simulation

History class does not need to be boring, despite the stereotype in pop-culture. Indeed, who can forget the infamous scene from Farris Bueller’s Day Off and the cringe-worthy monotone economics lecture from Ben Stein? History does not need to be like this. One can still have depths of information, insight, and skill-development while having fun […]

ASSESSMENT CREATION AND CANVAS

Designing creative assessments and facilitating critical thinking through choice in the mode and expression of learning is fundamental to my approach in this assessment. I have been developing an assessment checklist to assist in designing learning experiences and assessments that align with these values. This assignment was designed for AP World History and World History […]

Assessment Design Checklist 2.0

If you’re like me, my mind gets swamped amid all the things I want and need to recall and apply in my classroom each day. Assessments (aka, everything done in the classroom on a daily bases) can be overwhelming. I am writing an assessment checklist to go over each time I plan learning activities for […]

Assessment Design Checklist 1.0

Often deciding what to teach and how is haphazard and can feel like you’re flying by the seat of your pants. I must confess, I have pondered to myself on more than one occasion, “man, what am I going to teach them tomorrow?” No design with the end goal in mind was present in my […]

ONLINE DISCUSSION AND BUDDHISM: FLIPGRID & FORMATIVE ASSESSMENTS

AP World History has just gone through a significant redesign this year that has removed a lot of content and asks students to go deeper in matters related to global modern history. While Many teachers are understandably frustrated, as I have been at times in the last few months, I am taking this as an […]