2013 March | Reason and Wonder

A Further Call to Arms

Entering the Discussion Two Thursdays ago I jumped in the middle of an ongoing discussion about assessment by posting this. It was essentially a call to arms, a request to join forces in strengthening the quality of our assessments. Then, just after midnight on Saturday morning Daniel Schneider blew my mind by posting this. If you haven’t read it yet, …

Expressions Challenge

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The Four Fours In my first year of teaching I came across the Four Fours challenge. I loved it. I’ve always considered puzzles, brainteasers, and trivial challenges of that sort to be rather entertaining, so I went to town on the Four Fours right away. The problem gets better as you go: easier target numbers are out of the way …

The Great Blog Exchange

All Your Blogs Are Belong To Us Strange as it may seem, the impending death of Google Reader has me on the hunt for more great blogs. I know I could go to a few of my favorite blogs, check out their blogrolls, and go from there. But personal recommendations feel so much more… personal. With that in mind, I …

Tasks and Assessments

More Awesome, Please Either I’m a glutton for punishment, or there’s just too much awesome on the Internet and I can’t help myself. Whichever is true, I want to build something, and I need your help to do it. Here’s what I propose: Let’s do for assessment what Dan Meyer, Andrew Stadel, Fawn Nguyen, and countless others are doing for …

More than Skillful?

I’m new to the standards based grading world. I’ll share more in another post about what I’m loving, what I’m struggling with, what I’m dreaming about, how I want to use the power of the Internet to make all of my assessments fantastically awesome, etc. But a question just popped into my head after a rather successful (though entirely skill-focused) …

Quadratics Matching Activity, Take 2

Visitors and Commenters? Woohoo! I’m amazed anyone reads this blog, and even more blown away that people have posted so many thoughtful comments. Shortly after my long-winded sky-is-falling post, I added a quick note about launching an activity with as few words as possible. There were a few great comments on this shorter post about how to improve one particular …

Pockets of Time

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I’m a little worn out after my last couple of posts, so I’ll aim for something more cheerful today. Several years ago (okay, maybe closer to 20 than several) my mom went on a trip with a friend to Monterey. She stopped at a game shop, picked up this little gem, and brought it home for me and my sisters …

Launching an activity: Cut to the chase!

Howdy. If you’re reading this and you haven’t read my super long post from last night (technically, it went live early this morning), this post might not have enough context. At any rate, I’m aiming for a better day today in fifth period (Algebra 1) and my game plan is this: When giving directions for a group activity, cut to …

Blogging as Therapy

My Inflated Sense of Awesomeness I used to suffer from an inflated sense of awesomeness. I blame my honors students. Now, stay with me for a moment. I don’t dole out blame like this too often, but I think I have a case here. Picture this daily routine from my not-so-distant past: I bring mediocre to a classroom full of …

Triangles

Pre Algebra is on my teaching list this year. The last time I taught it was five or six years ago, and I’ve changed quite a bit as a teacher since then, so I’m building everything again from scratch. (It feels appropriate to note that my philosophy of teaching/learning has shifted more significantly than my actual practice, at least in …

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