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| Potty Training is now a proud accomplishment for high school students... awesome. |
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| Qualities of a good math teacher: Pretty. |
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Funny Thing About Students
A few days ago, I had new students in my classroom. I asked them to fill in a graphic organizer to tell me about themselves. Here were the highlights...
The above question did have the most depressing responses. Accomplishment students were proud of... most said "Nothing"
Going well....
The school year is in full swing now and I have been absolutely terrible at updating this blog. I continue to learn a lot each day from my students (and from the fellow teachers hooked into all the social media networks, Pintrest where would I be without you?)
My goal for the rest of the month and for the rest of the year really is to show you more pictures and post more regularly This is more for me than for anyone out there reading. I think it's really important that I get my thoughts out so that I can remember them all for later. I miss the journaling that I had to do durring my time as a student teacher. In honor of that I will complete the post as the journal entry that would have corresponded with my day as a student teacher.
To answer the following questions:
What went well? For whom?
What could have gone better? For whom?
Today was sort of a crazy day of emotions (okay so just a regular day). I was relaxed and the students were very excited about the fact that they hadn't had schol the previous day (SNOW DAY!). We still had work to do though. My first hour class in fact had to take a quiz today. They were not doing well on their proofs especially after the three day break. I have to do some more research into how to teach proofs effectively. My students just keep giving up on me. Not all of them. And some really come into their stride when we hit the triangle section of the book, but others just completely give. They can talk their way through it with my guiding questions but on their own they struggle.
I also had a surprise observation today. It was good fun in that I had some extra time when the principal came in today, luckily I already had a plan of what to do with the class time. I'm really getting into this whole algebra concept. I'll show you what we did today with our extra few minutes.
My reconceptualizing of the class a few weeks ago has gone very well. Instead of being frustrated that students don't know the information already I have been trying to help them discover it. This is a challenge, but I'm trying to get them ready for a opening activity next chapter that is completely discovery based.
I love the way my classroom structure is working for me and I'm finally getting a hang of this organization thing that is my classroom. Coming up with systems that work. Maybe that will be a post for tomorrow. Life is good.
Student quote of the day: "I don't think I was here when we covered most of this material on the quiz because I overslept for three days in a row." No, no you weren't here....
My goal for the rest of the month and for the rest of the year really is to show you more pictures and post more regularly This is more for me than for anyone out there reading. I think it's really important that I get my thoughts out so that I can remember them all for later. I miss the journaling that I had to do durring my time as a student teacher. In honor of that I will complete the post as the journal entry that would have corresponded with my day as a student teacher.
To answer the following questions:
What went well? For whom?
What could have gone better? For whom?
Today was sort of a crazy day of emotions (okay so just a regular day). I was relaxed and the students were very excited about the fact that they hadn't had schol the previous day (SNOW DAY!). We still had work to do though. My first hour class in fact had to take a quiz today. They were not doing well on their proofs especially after the three day break. I have to do some more research into how to teach proofs effectively. My students just keep giving up on me. Not all of them. And some really come into their stride when we hit the triangle section of the book, but others just completely give. They can talk their way through it with my guiding questions but on their own they struggle.
I also had a surprise observation today. It was good fun in that I had some extra time when the principal came in today, luckily I already had a plan of what to do with the class time. I'm really getting into this whole algebra concept. I'll show you what we did today with our extra few minutes.
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| Double Bubble Map to Compare and Contrast Slope-Intercept Form and Point-Slope Form |
I love the way my classroom structure is working for me and I'm finally getting a hang of this organization thing that is my classroom. Coming up with systems that work. Maybe that will be a post for tomorrow. Life is good.
Student quote of the day: "I don't think I was here when we covered most of this material on the quiz because I overslept for three days in a row." No, no you weren't here....
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