DAVID WEES

Thoughts from a reflective educator.

projects

Moderating external projects

March 26, 2010

For the past three years, I've been an official IB Assistant Examiner.  This means that each May (or November, but I usually don't sign up for the November sessions, too busy), I get sent a whole bunch of external exams or projects, and I have to grade the assignments.  The money isn't great, it's a huge amount of work, but I see it as really valuable.



Using Google Docs when teaching mathematics

November 14, 2008

Google has a lot of cool tools they have been working on recently, and I enjoy trying them out.  Once in a while they come up with a tool you can use in your classroom right away.



Helping students produce effective high quality projects

November 13, 2008

As secondary mathematics becomes more and more about how you find the solution to a problem and less about what the correct answer is to a problem, it becomes easier to justify assessing students using a project.