So I’m trying to figure out how to reach more people and thinking about the future of my professional development plans with PBL for all levels of teachers. I’ve gotten some great feedback from people about the PBL Math Summit so far (from the two years we’ve had it) and I have some ideas about […]
I am not really a negative blogger but I do have to say how tired I am of research reports that over and over again talk about the way we are not doing enough to support girls in math education (or other underrepresented populations of students). There is enough evidence now from many research reports […]
If you’re here it means you like reading blogposts that I write. Check out my guest blogposts and the Mathematics Teacher site at NCTM for the next month or so. I’ll be trying to incorporate some of the advice and challenges I’ve faced in teaching with PBL and some of the ideas that I’ve shared with […]
One of my big “beefs” at my school is the fact that we have three levels of tracking – count ’em, three. There’s the honors track, that of course at a college prep school, most kids think they belong in. There’s the regular track, that which is still pretty quick and difficult, and there’s the […]
Back in 2010, I wrote an blogpost comparing teaching with PBL to doing yoga. Since I have been doing Bikram Yoga for almost a year now and still can’t do “standing head to knee pose” *at all* – I thought I would repost this one just to give myself some perspective, and possibly many of […]
Sometimes my ignorance with respect to Twitter just floors me. Today alone I made two huge faux pas (is that plural?) with two people that I really respect and just made a fool out of myself – typos, misinterpretations, and misunderstandings abound in my tweets. But I have to say I press on – because […]
Instead of passing out photocopies, I tried to think of a way that participants could access the “hand-outs” virtually while attending a session. What I’ve done in the past a conferences is have them just access them on their tablet devices. You can also go and access copies on the Conference Server if you do […]
On an assessment students did for me today I gave this question: An aging father left a triangular plot of land to his two children. When the children saw how the land was to be divided in two parts (Triangle ADC and Triangle BDC), one child felt that the division of the land was not fair, […]
Yes, it is this time of year where I have to stop and wonder – what the heck am I doing wrong? Is it me? Is it the kids? Is it the combination of us? In the spring, many of the kids are breezing through and finding ways to problem solve and have gotten really […]