iTeach and iLearn

What time are assignments due for your class? Most learning management systems (LMSs) have a default time of midnight. But do assignments ne...

Over the past few weeks I've been doing a lot of consulting work with several schools who are preparing for the fall semester. I've ...

Yesterday, I received an email from one of my amazing and thoughtful students. She is currently in a field experience placement where she is...

Oh. My. Word. I just read this article from Education Week: You're More Likely to Pass the Bar Than an Elementary Teacher Licensing Ex...

Oh. Snap. A tweet from one of the people I've been following on Twitter since almost the beginning, Dan Meyer : For real, tho: wha...

I am a big believer in closely matching my assessment vehicles to what I want students to know, understand, and do. I think that they way  w...

Over the past 20 years I've served as a professional educator, my thoughts on basic knowledge and skills have fluctuated. Early in my ...

It's time for our first test of the semester in World Regional Geography. I've spent quite a bit of time over the past few days work...

An old gradebook from when I taught middle school... Time for me to practice what I preach, folks. If I tell my Education majors someth...

It has been an incredibly busy season of writing for me lately. My dissertation is coming together, and in fact, I have finished writing all...

"Hey, Professor Mulder...is this an opinion  question?" A few semesters ago, I had a student taking a test raise her hand to ca...

Image by Alan Levine [CC BY 2.0] After my last post , I tweeted a series of questions, challenging teachers (I suppose) to try asking ...

My friend, Erik Ellefsen , recently tweeted this one to me: @d_mulder @eckertjon What if we put these in classrooms? pic.twitter.com/rg...

In a recent post , I shared some of the research that has been done about homework and it's effectiveness (or lack thereof) for helping ...

Please forgive me for using "crappy" in the title of this post if that language offends you. But I decided to start things off thi...

Grade books are a real problem, and I don't think enough teachers are actually thinking about how they use their grade books. A grade ...

This is sort of a weird question I've been thinking about: "How can I best assess my students ability to assess and evaluate?"...

A dear friend who is a social worker shared this via Facebook this morning... From the Iowa Foster & Adoptive Parents Association...

I think you may need to know where I'm coming from if you're going to read this post, so you don't think I'm just suddenly r...

"This is hard!" one of my students exclaimed in class this afternoon. It is my middle school curriculum and instruction course; ...