Instead of having my students simply talk about their Spring Breaks with their new groups, I had them draw out one thing that they did for their group to guess instead (can you tell what I’m basing this idea off of? Hint: I used up all my data this past month due to it.) Anyways, [...]
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Through someone’s else’s blog, I just read an article from 2008 by Malcolm Gladwell on teachers. Aside from learning more than I asked for on the differences of college football vs. the NFL, I really liked all that it had to say on education too. Except I found myself surprisingly… less impassioned about some ideas [...]
Holy smokes. It’s been awhile since I’ve blogged. I suppose the reason is a mix of two things: a transition to a new school and moving to the wonderful new city of San Francisco! So life has been fun, but I had to admit, my lessons have taken quite a dive. So what brings me back [...]
After a t00-short vacation, a move to a different city across California (and therefore a different school), my first post of the school year! Since I’m still quite a bit overwhelmed with adjusting to my new school and their crazy block schedule, just a few quick notes to get me warmed up: I went from [...]
Best quote from the NYTimes article: “The United States is one of the few developed countries that lacks national standards for its public schools.” And so here you have it, folks, national standards.
This year, I’ve moved much of my teaching world online. From better class websites, to having my students blog, to reading other teacher’s blogs, to this blog of my own. I’ve also be delaying Facebook for as long as possible but caved in to it this year. I’m still skirting Twitter. This sudden move towards [...]
I really do LOVE my school. Although there might be cons to every pro, one of the PROS of our crazy schedule is that if I wanted to create a class like, say, a MATH PROJECTS class, it can become a reality. Figuring that I actually had two Calculus classes this year instead of one, [...]
I hung up on security today to prevent the fight from happening in my face. I called them back and two deans came. The defiance attracted a third dean and the custodian for my two students. Then, after class, another student pushes past me refusing to stay the 3 minutes I held them in for [...]
I always tell my Algebra kids “Don’t be a monkey!” As in, don’t just mimic the steps without knowing why you are doing what your are doing because even monkeys can mimic steps. We are now on simplifying rational expressions and as I was tutoring one student, she did something like this: When I asked [...]
I can’t help it. I want to remember this one. It’s another story about my class of trying-hard-not-to-be-monkeys/ ninth graders. Well, this story is really about one of them. One that I just can’t seem to get mad at! I really do try too! I move his seat, I put him in corners, make him [...]
