So this is a twitter thread that I posted regarding the NBCT path. Seeing how twitter is on the way down the toilet, I’ll fix some of the typos and put it up here too. Link.
So a week ago I logged into the National Board website and learned that I had scored enough points on the most recent two...
A few months back there was a bit of a kerfuffle about how Twitter uses an a...
End of the year. Finally. Sixty plus school days out, from March 12th until June 12th.
Who knows what the fall will bring? More of the same, full distance learning? Some days in school, some distance? Totally back in person?
Full of questions. So I asked the students a series of questions, so...
This is a Day in the Life of post in the 6th week of our Corona Virus School break. I wrote a previous Day in the Life post six years ago and it can be found here. Here is the #mtbos call for similar posts, also from a long time ago. The idea for this post is to record what it’s like to be a...
Once again, here’s a lightly edited twitter thread about my experiences teaching in the COVID19 craziness. This is the fifth week that we’ve been away from students.
This week I asked the students to attend a small group (<=5) 10 min meeting with me to talk about our past and our future for the cl...
Hello forgotten blog. I’ll go back to forgetting about you, but I wrote a lot of text into your flashier cousin, Twitter, and here it is copied, pasted, and lightly edited.
I’ve been asking the students to fill out weekly feedback forms. What is going on? Do you need anything? What is working? Wh...
This is an update to my previous PAEMST post.
In the middle of October I took a trip with my wife to DC and participated in the PAEMST (Presidential Awards for Excellence in Math and Science Teaching) awards conference for three days. It was a great trip, the 7-12 awardees from 2017 and the K-...
RAY: Everyone, almost everyone remembers the Pythagorean Theorem. A squared, plus B squared, equals C squared. And there are numbers like three, four and five; five, 12, 13 which satisfy that little equation.
Many hundreds of years ago a French mathematician by the name of Fermat said, this only...
Previous entries: #1 Course Evaluations, #2 Whiteboards and Furniture, and #3 Teacher Technology Use.
This one is short and sweet. And it totally depends on you. Share your nerdy math things with the students. Please. Students at any level should see how you enjoy the subject that you teach,...
Ok, here we are after a full year between Classroom Top Four #2 and #3. Wow. Good news is that I have more refined opinions on this specific topic, partly because I changed schools and the friction of the change has made me more thoughtful about what I’d want in an ideal classroom.
Previous entrie...