If you sing it, they remember it. Right? I'm a big believer in songs in math class. My sister used to make fun of me and said I had a song for everything. Lining up, Cleaning up, Subtracting, Multiplying, Rounding, Verbs, Prepositions, You get the point...
When I bring up Quick Practices and Student Leaders I hear many of the following phrases: “They take too much time!” “My kids are bored!” “I have too many other things to cover!” “I lead them quicker and better than my students do!” “The student leaders don’t get it and...
“They can’t do anything!” I vividly remember shouting this as I stormed into the teacher’s lounge during lunch on the first day of school. “I know, I forget every year how much they don’t know, “ exclaimed my teammate. It was frustrating. They were so little, they were...
This remote teaching thing is legit. It's legitimately difficult. There is so much more than just learning about our students, teaching our content, and figuring out ways to meet student academic and emotional needs. Adding the layer of --- and now do it all online is...
Summer of 2020. That one statement should say everything. Boy, it's been a rough go. Although it has been a rough half of a year for our world, nation, industry, etc., I believe with everything I am that challenging us, changes us. Change is good. Change...
It's my birthday month! So, I'm going to celebrate all month long and share with you a few of my favorite things. This week, I'm sharing a few of my favorite math tools for the classroom. So, if you are restocking for next year, building manipulative...
One of the statements I'm hearing from teachers over and over again is how distance learning and teaching doesn't 'feel' right because so much of teaching is listening to students, watching them complete tasks, interacting and asking questions, etc. Recorded lessons don't have the same...
Disclaimer: Every teacher, just like every student, parent, and home life, has their unique challenges and circumstances of which are now also a part of their remote learning world. Not everyone is in a place where they can put these suggestions into place. BUT...
One of the best ways we can feel more productive in our online teaching endeavors is through doing what we already do in the regular classroom (that works) and applying it to our new virtual classrooms. I made two videos this week to help us think...
I love teaching. Like with my entire being I love teaching. But, my kind of teaching is student-centered. It revolves around students generating ideas and the class building understanding based on what students generate. My kind of teaching isn’t direct instruction, where I tell students...