There are a few common ways that Latin America is classified: By Romance language: Any country where the predominant language is a Romance language (a branch of the Indo-European language […]
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Tag: Professional Development
Not Easily Sold: One Human’s Evaluation of Using Class Companion’s A.I. to Score FRQs
Class Companion is the hot new gizmo that will likely blast some of your PD time during your start-of-the-year teacher institutes. Basically, Class Companion claims to accurately score your students’ […]
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Professional Development: Geography’s History and Scope
If you are looking for a greater understanding of the development of geography as an academic practice, I came across a playlist of lectures that I am very impressed with. […]
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Professional Development: Explain the Strengths, Weaknesses, and Limitations of New Urbanism
I’m in a Gentrification & Urban Redevelopment Facebook group and an individual posted a list of sources that are critical of New Urbanism. They are good, and most of them […]
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Professional Development: APHG Reader’s Commentary on the 2021 FRQ Exam
A day after the 2021 AP Human Geography reading ended, I solicited advice from bleary-eyed readers about their observations. I was looking for feedback on where and how a script […]
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Professional Development: Leveraging Peergrade.io for FRQs
For the remainder of my AP review season, I am leveraging a new platform called Peergrade.io and it allows just what it says. In a regular class setting, my students […]
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Crowdsource Opportunity: An FRQ a Day…
You know what they say… an apple a day, keeps the doctor away. So I’m doing my part to keep ’em inside with FRQ’s! I wrote original FRQ-styled review questions, […]
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Why I’ve Sent My Last Covid-19 Article to Students
Before you proceed: I am posting my opinion about addressing Covid-19 in the classroom (eClassrooms), and if you don’t agree, I gladly welcome a professional dialogue. We are all coping […]
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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: Scale vs. Scale of Analysis vs. Scale of Inquiry
Scale is a MASSIVE concept for the social sciences. Is phenomenon occurring at local levels? Is it regional? Is it global?
Do epidemics occurring at a local level have global implications?
How does war occurring at a regional level effect local economies?
Do global treaties impact national policies?
In Human Geography, scale is an extremely important concept that requires threading throughout the entire course.
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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: Writing Stimulus-Based, Multiple Choice Questions
Like many of you, I am in the process of re-working my exams to get our kids aligned with the changes made to our exam. In the process, I’ve learned […]
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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: Collaborative APHG Stimulus Bank
*Links to be included under the Facebook Group post. Collaborative APHG Stimulus Bank This is the brainchild of our creative master, and new teacher mentor Laura K. who gave me […]
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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: Early Thoughts on Changes to APHuGe
At times, flipping the script on teachers is met with rolled eyes, sighs, and the feeling that someone keeps pushing our heads under water. But for the sake of my […]
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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: Circle Seminars
I couldn’t wait to try this seminar approach after seeing people talk about it on our Facebook group. So thank you for whoever posted it! In my brief research on […]
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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT via Esri Academy: Cartography Mooc
I received an email from ESRI yesterday about a free cartography MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) they are sponsoring from September 5th-October 16th, 2018. I took a computer cartography course […]
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