The first trimester has ended and our 7th grade Digital Literacy course has come to an end.  For those who attended in person or followed along online, here’s a hyper-linked list of the topics we explored: OneNote: An Electronic Notebook Website Evaluation: Be a Critical Consumer Delicious: Social Bookmarking Effective Search Strategies: Keywords are Key [...]

Yesterday our Head of School lead an Understanding By Design (UBD) workshop for the middle school faculty.  When discussing the assessment process, she stressed the need to create assessments that: Reveal deep and important understandings Core Performance Assessment Provide information about what students know about the topic Short answer quizzes and tests, guided response, timelines, [...]

In preparation for last week’s trimester exams, Ashley O’Toole, our Middle School Learning Specialist, reviewed some study and test-taking strategies with the seventh grade.  Her presentation, which she graciously agreed to share with a wider audience, can benefit students of all ages: Many of the techniques Ashley suggested can be supported by technology, and the [...]