Observing at Hudson High has been a great learning experience so far. I get along really well with my co-op, Adam Kowles, and he has been so helpful. One thing that I have noticed during the day is the difference between two periods of the same class. Right away in the morning, It is two […]
While observing in one of my two classrooms, the one room has a SMART Podium which sits on her desk in the back of the classroom. I thought it was neat because she basically uses it as a SMART board and has students come and write solutions out on it. The reason I mainly liked […]
I would just like to mention that, on Friday at SCC, there was an announcement made by the principal over the loud speaker at the beginning of the day that went something like: “When you have your ipods in class or in study hall they are only to be used during your work time for […]
http://teachhighschoolmath.blogspot.com/ This was from one of the people that Langford put on her list, and there were a couple of interesting ideas that I found. One of these things was the idea of switching seats. This particular teacher has his students switch seats at the beginning of every chapter. First of all, would you personally […]
I have been trying to find the article that showed a teacher using index cards as low tech i-clickers and have not had much luck. I did stumble upon this site that has some neat assessment tools. I will let you know if I find the article. Basically what the teacher did was have a […]
I have come to really like a lot of posts by Kate Nowak and When I came across her Extrinsic Motivation post I thought it was awesome! She talks about how she is in a cake decorating class and how she was supposed to make a rainbow but made a pie chart on the cake […]
Katie found a really cool site about algebra.
I’ve been looking for software that will let me make some nice 3D objects for students to play with. I like doing 3D geometry, but in the Math for El Ed class, we spend one day a week in the lab, and sometimes it seems like it’s wasted because 3D is so hard to come […]
I found this really cool website the other day… it combines math, social studies, and music! It is called a rhythm wheel and in math, the students use it to find the LCM (Go to teaching materials, and then the short version of “lesson plan for rhythm wheels”). For social studies, they have great references […]
Kate Nowak at f(t) shared some of her thoughts about worksheets a few months back. As she says: there are good worksheets and bad worksheets. The good ones make you think. The good ones give you feedback so it is self correcting. The good ones are focused: you spend a lot of time thinking about […]