We had a goal writing exercise during in-service this last week. We were to come up with at least one pedagogical goal, one professional goal (not necessarily related to content), and one wellness goal. Here’s the gist of what I wrote in my journal: PEDAGOGY GOALS ROBOTICS I’ve been thinking through Robotics mostly lately. I’ll … More Teacher Goals – 2017/2018
Happy start of the new year folks. Had a fantastic summer that concluded with an awesome trip to China. I plan on putting some summer reflections / videos up here soon. Part of our summer reading was to read a book on mindfulness in the classroom called ‘Teach, Breathe, Learn’ by Meena Srinivasan. For a … More Reflections on ‘Teach, Breathe, Learn’
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Today is the first official day of summer for me! Started out with breakfast for some friends, the first swim in a long while at the lap pool (taking a break for a week from the weight lifting as I’ve had some shoulder pain), and some good time to get a lot of little tasks … More Entry 33 – School Has Come To An End
Well the last week of learning new content has come to a close. We’ll be reviewing in all classes next week and then finals week. PRE-ALGEBRA My students are just about done with their statistics project that I talked about last week. Got a lot of positive feedback. It was really one of the best … More Entry 32 – Statistics & Gender
So we have one week of content left in our classes, a week of review, and then finals week. We are winding down. PRE-ALGEBRA STATS PROJECT In Pre-Algebra, we just finished our percents unit, which was pretty short. It could’ve actually been a part of the previous ratios and proportions unit (as I had them … More Entry 31 – A Middle School Statistics Project
Didn’t reflect last week. Had a big, fun retreat weekend and left right after class on Friday. It was with Sara’s residency program. I made a fun video that has nothing to do with school that I’ll just place right here: Onto the school content: PRE-ALGEBRA We finished up our ratios/proportions unit last week and … More Entry 29 & 30 – “I Learned More In The Last 45 Minutes Than I Have This Whole Semester”
