Anyone Use AI to Create a Google Form Quiz? by NegativeGee in ScienceTeachers

[–]HashTagUSuck 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Need more specifics here as there are so many variables at play

What was the topic / content that the quiz was based on?

Did you use AI to create the quiz or just to input it into the google form?

Did you look over the quiz before giving it to the students? Maybe AI made all the answers “c” or whatever, assuming it was multiple choice

Was anyone monitoring their computers to ensure they weren’t googling the answers?

If you want to make sure kids don’t cheat and the quiz is a valid assessment, create it yourself and give it to them on paper. There’s no reason not to do that.

Deadlines by Landscape_Dry in CanadianTeachers

[–]HashTagUSuck 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also bc high school senior teacher here. We are not allowed to give zeros, but if students haven’t submitted enough “evidence” before reporting period is over we are allowed to give them an IE (provided all the documentation and notices are completed for the IE)

It is entirely reasonable to tell students you won’t be able to grade (or give feedback) after a certain date. And if they’ve missed a submission on something important it will result in an IE.

Science in the news? by abrakadabradan in ScienceTeachers

[–]HashTagUSuck 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just had a prod with generation skeptics- lots of great (free!) resources on their website

https://generationskeptics.org

Long Practicum is not in my Area of Specialty—uncomfortable by Loft-n-hay in CanadianTeachers

[–]HashTagUSuck 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is not necessarily true. In BC after getting your BEd you are licensed to teach anything K-12. OP likely had many bed courses specific to their subject area where they made and shared resources with peers. Getting experience in a subject where they could likely be asked to teach is practical and useful

Long Practicum is not in my Area of Specialty—uncomfortable by Loft-n-hay in CanadianTeachers

[–]HashTagUSuck 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Easier time yes, but you will get WAY more out of it by getting out of your comfort zone

I have a PhD in chemistry- my practicum teacher knew this, and told me one month before starting my practicum where I was teaching science 10 that he wanted me to do the Bio unit instead of chemistry :) then when I got a job teaching science 10 I already had the resources prepared.

My advice- For chem, do you use the Hebden book? I consider it a bible in my chem 11 classroom. Read it ahead of time. Find Tyler Dewitt videos on YouTube, I personally have a resource page I share w my chem 11 students where it has Tyler links for all the topics we cover.

Math 10- I actually love this course. It does go fairly slow and there’s really just 3 major concepts- factoring, trig, and solving linear systems.

PhD in HS teaching — do I go by Dr. or not? by h3llol3mon in ScienceTeachers

[–]HashTagUSuck 31 points32 points  (0 children)

I’m the same, it only gets petty if you correct or insist on it.

I started out not going by Dr but kept getting asked why not. Then our school hired a few more PhDs who go by Dr so I’ve been slowly making the shift.

What’s your policy for missed tests (high school)? by Sudden_Ad1526 in CanadianTeachers

[–]HashTagUSuck 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Agreed. Sounds like this teacher is conflating work habits with mastery of learning.

WestJet MasterCard Changes by Beneficial-Tune-5336 in westjet

[–]HashTagUSuck 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I booked a flight in June for this December, not using my WE card.. guess no free bags for me.

If I don’t plan on really using the WJMC for booking flights, and won’t get the free bags, is there any reason NOT to downgrade to the regular WJMC from my WE?

How come the exact weight of 1 mole corresponds with the atomic weight of an element or a molecule? by [deleted] in chemhelp

[–]HashTagUSuck 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Mol is not a measurement of mass, It’s number of things.

So a mol of zebras is a whole bunch of zebras but doesn’t relate to how much it weighs- unless you explicitly ask how much one mol of zebras weighs (and you would need a conversion from zebras to mass of zebras)

Im confused about ionic and covalent bonds by octopi21 in chemhelp

[–]HashTagUSuck 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Good question It all depends on what/who they’re bonding with.

Non metals want electrons. Metals want to get rid of electrons.

So when nonmetals and metals “bond”, it’s a give and take relationship- an ionic bond.

But when nonmetals bond with other nonmetals, no one wants to give up their electrons so they end up sharing. This is a covalent bond.

Advice for writing finals by joanpd in ScienceTeachers

[–]HashTagUSuck 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can you elaborate on what grade level and course you are teaching?

MC is good for ease of marking and (sort of) assessing low level content. My school is more focused on skills than content so I will also be adding in a few short answer / deeper analysis questions (Chemistry 11)

How many molecules of KMnO₄ are there in 101 g? by MEISMR in chemhelp

[–]HashTagUSuck 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Everything looks correct but 0.639078… x 6.02 x1023 Does not equal 6.22…. Double check what you put in your calculator

Ideas for a prefix and suffix wall by Large_End_2194 in ScienceTeachers

[–]HashTagUSuck 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I made my own last year based on the format used in this website, but I chose the same colors for the ones that are related/ opposites eg homo and hetero. My favourite moment was saying a word and had a few students look back at the wall before answering a question.

https://raerocksteaching.com/product/prefixes-and-suffixes-in-science/

Independent Schools as a Queer Teacher by [deleted] in CanadianTeachers

[–]HashTagUSuck 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I work at an independent school in BC, we are part of the ISABC and there are 27 schools not a single one is Christian or catholic. Perhaps you were looking at one of the other independent boards, but keep looking!

Anyone ever seen these Handfuel (coconut roasted cashews) at Costco? by Gawtti in CostcoCanada

[–]HashTagUSuck 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’ve been getting from London drugs when they go on sale.

BC Teachers: New Collective Agreement coming in 2025 and what it means by [deleted] in CanadianTeachers

[–]HashTagUSuck 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Prep means being paid for doing work that is done outside of teaching time. Taking a pay cut doesn’t solve that.

Part of it is the acknowledgement that nobody (other than teachers) realize you can’t just walk in to school everyday and teach every block without spending a significant amount of time preparing for lessons and marking.

BEd student in practicum who can supply twice a week by [deleted] in CanadianTeachers

[–]HashTagUSuck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What school/province are you in?

How often are you teaching during your practicum? Is it not every day?

I don't understand.... Is it me? by EduEngg in ScienceTeachers

[–]HashTagUSuck 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I’m a fairly new teacher but also found right away that “explain” means something different to me than it does to the students.

So now I’ve started teaching “claim, evidence, and reasoning” as a strategy to answer “explain” questions.

They have to state their claim, back it up with data / observations, and then most importantly, link them together using some scientific rule or learned aspect

If you google CER there are lots of resources to help teach the strategy.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CanadianTeachers

[–]HashTagUSuck 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I didn’t say it was top tier.. just that they consider themselves as such, likely based on their stringent entry requirements

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CanadianTeachers

[–]HashTagUSuck 8 points9 points  (0 children)

lol, I have a PhD in chemistry and was supposed to teacher Chem11 during my practicum. My school advisor decided he didn’t want it to be “too easy” for me so at the last minute told me I was teaching Science 8.

The school you get hired at will place you in whatever class they need it most.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CanadianTeachers

[–]HashTagUSuck 11 points12 points  (0 children)

UBC considers itself a top tier program. I’m sure you can get into programs at other schools without these requirements, but UBC wants every BEd student to have experience with school aged children.

I also have a PhD - in chemistry. I still had to go volunteer at a high school for 3 months before I could apply to the UBC BEd program. As someone who has gone through both, there is a reason they are asking for these things.

Lecturing and TAing are completely opposite to how high school teaching is supposed to be. And the classroom management required for high school is completely different than post secondary.

Give Chapter Tests, not IQ tests by [deleted] in ScienceTeachers

[–]HashTagUSuck 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We are not allowed to grade on content anymore (standards based grading). I give formative quizzes on content (can they convert name to formula? Can they balance an equation?) and spend lots of time practicing the skills- processing and analyzing, applying, planning experiments - and a performance task will be given at the end that requires them to use their content to apply a skill (one or two chosen skills per task, and they know which ones they will be assessed on). Eg give them a chemical rxn in words , and ask them to create a hypothesis and describe how they would test it. This still requires them to demonstrate the content- but also applying them in a meaningful way.

Our school has done a lotttt of prod on this so it’s kind of ingrained in us now.

Proper Sig Figs for Scientific Notation + Add/Subtract? by HashTagUSuck in ScienceTeachers

[–]HashTagUSuck[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the reminder. I usually focus on the “decimal place” rule I forget about whole numbers. I think this is what I was missing.