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Ava's Math Blog: Tell a Teacher
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Sunday, December 20, 2009. A couple of student conflicts happened today that gave me pause for thought. The first was relatively minor. A boy said that his female friend hit him. He didn't seem distressed or hurt at all. If anything he seemed amused. I think the two might have been goofing off and seeking adult attention. So I asked him how he handled it. I can't remember what he said, but then I asked if he felt satisfied by how the conflict was resolved (but in different words). So Long (For Now), and ...
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Ava's Math Blog: Administration
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Sunday, December 20, 2009. I am really starting to appreciate how much school policies can affect learning in the classroom. I am used to working in classrooms of students who do not test my classroom management skills and who are generally motivated and well behaved. In the event that I have trouble with a particular student, I can usually call in administrative support (though this has been very rare). I have one student who is regularly disruptive in class. This is pretty frustrating from my perspecti...
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Ava's Math Blog: ELL
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Sunday, December 20, 2009. I have one student in my first period class who is an ELL (English Language Learner) student receiving support from ELL staff. I have many other ELL students, but they are significantly advanced in their English that they no longer need or are granted ELL support.). She does not attend class that regularly, but each morning that she does, a staff member comes to class to check on her. Than other students, and I feel. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Teaching Math in a Disast...
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Ava's Math Blog: November 2008
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Friday, November 28, 2008. I'm just finishing up the "School-to-Career Transitions" chapter in our text Understanding Youth. I'm trying to work through a couple of thoughts that seem to contradict each other. First off, in UY. On the other hand, I began thinking about a book I read by Eric Gutstein, Reading and Writing the World with Mathematics. He critiques the National Council Teacher of Mathematics Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics. Do my questions even make sense? Sessions t...
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Ava's Math Blog: Reading
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Sunday, December 20, 2009. My Algebra I kids don’t like to read. When given an assignment on a worksheet or in the book, they just sit there. When I check in with their groups, they ask, “What are we doing? 8221; or “I don’t even know what were supposed to be doing.”. Students seem to ask this question regardless of how many oral or written instructions are given. I’m not sure how to make changes such that this is less of a problem. Perhaps some of it is because they want the individual teacher attention.
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Ava's Math Blog: Sexism
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Sunday, December 20, 2009. Period class has a number of “energetic” boys. Some of them I know for sure struggle with ADHD and are usually on medication which helps increase their focus and productivity, but they sometimes forget or cycle off it for various reasons. Today when I was teaching that class, I called three people up to the front of the classroom to explain their work. When I looked back, I realized they were all boys, and they were not the best behaving boys. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Ava's Math Blog: Classroom Norms
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Sunday, December 20, 2009. I had an interesting experience setting classroom norms and rules in one of my classrooms at the beginning of the year. I'm reminded of this episode as we get closer to student teaching, because I will have to reset norms with my students. At the beginning of the year, I used a process that one of the other classroom teachers used, and that my cooperating teacher wanted to try out. From the group lists, one class list was generated. On the fly we modified the procedure so that ...
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Ava's Math Blog: November 2009
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Monday, November 2, 2009. As I think about taking over these classrooms in January, I have to say that I am quite nervous to see how students respond to my accountability measures. How do I keep kids working for the entire 50 minute period if they are used to checking out for the last half? Links to this post. Links to this post. So you have a sense of what the pattern is. if you keep stacking more nickels on the left side, what do you have to do to balance them? On a side note, the directions for the in...
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Ava's Math Blog: July 2009
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Friday, July 31, 2009. How does technology change the way we teach and learn mathematics? I don't think technology necessarily has an impact on the way we teach and learn math. There are poor ways to use technology and excellent ways. But I can do some things more or better with technology than I can without it:. More conceptual: Like bullet point #1. Students develop better intuition through play. Less paper (but more energy use and toxic ewaste). Links to this post. Thursday, July 30, 2009. I love the ...
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Ava's Math Blog: Group Work
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Sunday, December 20, 2009. I am used to doing group work with my students at SGS, but as I think about implementing a group work system with my students (specifically my Algebra 1, and especially my first period Algebra 1 students) I am starting to doubt whether or not this is a good idea. First of all, there are a number of students absent each period. Trying to shuffle these kids around to accomplish an activity can eat up a lot of class time. I can’t count on having stable groups, and I may have...
