Writing in a STEM Classroom
http://www.flickr.com/photos/us-pacific-command/ Yesterday my students took final exams in two Project Lead the Way classes: Introduction to Engineering Design (IED) and Digital Electronics (DE). Their exams consisted of a writing prompt with the requirement that they write at least one page, they use introductory and concluding paragraphs, and that they use proper spelling and grammar. For […]
You Need to Teach How to be in a Group
http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidquick/ Next week is our first week of school and that means, yet again, we need to teach our Freshmen how to work in a PBL environment. When every class is being taught this way it means that in every class they will be working in groups of 2 to 5 people. In […]