I just read a great blogpost by a business writer, Gwen Moran, entitled, “SIx Habits of Resilient People.” When I think of people that I admire in my life for their resilience there was usually some circumstance in their life that led them to learn the quality of resilience because they had to. Even the […]
Returning from vacation is always a tough time, but the other day in my honors geometry class, I decided to present them with a problem that had at its heart the Pythagorean Theorem – which we’ve been using since the beginning of the year – and I wanted to see what they would do with […]
So, I finally got this done and I’ll continue with the top three readings that I just found extremely useful in my teaching last year. 3. The Innovators’ DNA: by J. Dyer, H. Gregersen and C. Christensen I rarely recommend books that I have not read yet, but this one is actually on my list […]
Happy New Year! It’s been a busy end of 2013 for me. I’ve been doing a lot of reading and catching up with some writing. So, the New York Times came out with their top 75 Best-Selling Education Books of 2013 and some of them are really great reads and some are just books that […]
One of my goals in my work is often to help classroom mathematics teachers to be more deliberate in the ways in which they assess problem solving. Although many people can be cynical about rubrics, I think that students can find them at least helpful to know what a teacher expects of them. I have […]
Recently, the Exeter Bulletin published an amazing Memorial Minute in honor of Rick Parris just this past week which I believe was wonderfully written. In it they use a quote that Rick stated back in 1984 which shows his wisdom and insight into student learning of mathematics and the basis of my interest in PBL. […]
I recently read a blogpost by one of my favorite authors, Brene Brown, of TED talk fame, and the author of a great book about vulnerability called Daring Greatly. In her blogpost Brene wrote about some reactions to a comment she made on Oprah Winfrey’s Super Soul Sunday show where she talked about shame in […]
And so it begins. The students are flustered. The emails are coming at night. The faces stare at me, scared to death. Although I repeat numerous times, “You do not have to come to class with each problem done and correct” students are totally freaking out about the fact that they can’t “do their homework” […]
OK, Carmel, enough with the summer of blogging about all this theory and ideas about teaching. School is starting, we’ve committed to teaching with PBL – ack, things are starting to come into focus, huh? I’m getting all these emails with questions about writing journals and dealing with parents and how to put things into […]