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Targeted AP Review, Skills, Practice

First of all, I got one of those special notes today that just made my day: I’ve really focused on shifting some of my emphasis around how students should be engaging with their work from “trust me, trust the process, and you will be able to do this” to “you can learn anything with the…

ABCs of How We Learn… Y is for Yes I Can

How many times have you heard a student claim “I’m not a math person.” Better yet, how many times have you heard a peer or colleuge say something to the same effect when you tell them you teach physics! It’s typically followed up with “you must be really smart” or “I’m not smart enough for…

ABCs of How We Learn… X is for eXcitement

Engagement is one of those trendy buzz-words in education. From the Danielson Framework (domain 3) to SilverStrong to Marzano, engagement is a major focus of all of these evaluation tools and typically a “sell point” for curriculum packages and methods. When Building Thinking Classrooms was gaining popularity, one of the frequent complaints from folks deeply…

ABCs of How We Learn… W is for Worked Examples

Towards the begining of this series we talked about Deliberate Practice, which is practice that is effortful, focused, and with a goal of ironing out the parts that aren’t quite synced up yet. I’ve used mild, medium and spicy problems from building thinking classrooms to support this work as well as my most recent Skills…

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Hi, I’m Marianna Ruggerio. I’ve taught physics since 2009. I’m incredibly passionate about increasing diversity and equity in physics, as well as mentorship of preservice and novice teachers. Here you will find me sharing my classroom ideas, reflections and making Physics Education Research tangible for fellow high school teachers.

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