Friday article summary - what is "good" teaching?

When Good Teaching Leads to Bad Results: The Disasters of "Well Taught" Mathematics Courses
Schoenfield, A. Educational Psychologist. (1988)

Original article is available here.

Judging from how often I've come across people referring to this article, everybody but me must have read it long ago. Probably during teacher training? Teacher education in Sweden is ridiculous and at least mine did not include any research articles of any kind. So I read this article today for my own sake, just to figure out what it is everyone else is talking about.

Standard Based Grading, the IB-system, and something in between

Since I started teaching two years ago, I've been teaching in part the Swedish (standard based by law) system and in part the IB (final exam) system. It's therefore very interesting and funny for me to read about the issues US teachers are having with SBG, and the arguments people have against it (no, students do NOT come and demand a retest infinitely many times - they're too lazy and anyway the teacher can limit the assessment opportunities). In this post, I'm going to share my experiences and thoughts about the two systems I know, and propose a compromise.