Why change?
The answer to this question for me stems from the idea that I don’t really care when the learning happens, only if the learning happens.
Part of me also sees how sbg could encourage some bit of student responsibility in their learning. They would know that if they didn’t get the stu...
My dad sent me a link to quibids.com, an online auction site that allows you to buy items by bidding on them. Sounds familiar? The twist is that this site is a type of penny auction site where each bid costs money. A second catch is the auction has no set time limit. It has a count-down time...
I have the luxury of teaching a course called Consumer Math. This is a half-year course aimed at providing seniors with a 3rd or 4th math credit and I have free reign over content and pacing. This freedom is great because I can follow any interesting topic that comes up and I’m pretty sure that (a...
What can I do with this? This is the question that I seek to answer with this blog. How can I improve? How can I change for the good? What changes will effect the students the most?
I am a High School math teacher in upstate NY. I currently teach Geometry (Regents), Algebra (Regents), Compute...