Making a case for Students with Non-Academic Goals by Vikki Sankarsingh
2024-02-11 18:32       I want to start with a quote from Allan Pease:       “We are different because our brain is wired differently.This causes us to perceive the world in different ways and have different    ...
AI and Assessment by Vikki Sankarsingh
2023-12-12 10:09     I know this blog normally starts the week off, but hey! Even a blogger/ teacher deserves to take a break from her usual routine.    It doesn’t mean that my mind wasn’t buzzing with different...
Let's talk Test Anxiety by Vikki Sankarsingh
2023-11-19 15:57     “Dear Anxiety,    I wish you’d just leave me alone. You go away and then you come back, sometimes stronger than before. I’m hard enough on myself, I don’t need you beating me up too.”   If...
Project Based Learning by Vikki Sankarsingh
2023-09-24 13:24   Some of us might already have mid-term anxiety even though we’ve haven’t quite finished the month of September. I know I do. I like to get assessments and assignments out for vetting as soon as p...
Proper monitoring & feedback in the Education System by Vikki Sankarsingh
2023-09-15 17:35   It’s a mouthful, but it boils down to essentially two words: monitoring and feedback. We already know why we do it: we need to make decisions, assess where our students are at, and what we need t...
Streamlining Assessment with Formative: A Foreign Language Teacher's Experience by Vikki Sankarsingh
2023-01-28 13:22 It’s the 2nd term and we’re in for a ride of interruptions: national celebrations, sports, field trips and retreats. It’s not like we aren’t accustomed, so we just roll our eyes, groan quietly, but se...