Demonstrate kindness Challenge yourself and smile Learn from your mistakes What will I try differently this year? What went well last year? What didn’t go well? How can I get my students to understand better? My personal reflections led to me to make changes in my teaching,...
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I spend a lot of time in early childhood classrooms, and, as the headline suggests, I have gotten to a point where I cannot sit through one more moment of Calendar Time. It is difficult to select what makes me most crazy about this practice: ● Is it that too often Calendar Time takes up...
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It always makes me sad when I go into primary grades classrooms during mathematics and see slumped shoulders, bowed heads, and even tears. In many ways, I find it entirely improbable that as a society we’ve been able to put together two things as inherently joyful as children and mathematics and...
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“Through learning how to lead and guide someone else's learning I found that I had a lot to learn as well, so I think my knowledge and understanding of how to teach, listen, ask questions to help make connections, and be patient all while working with a group or team (more than one person at a...
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As a student, I was one of those kids who sort of caught on quickly to algorithms. I was “good” at math. As an adult, I realize that had nothing to do with my intelligence; instead, it was - and still is - more of a reflection of my personality. As I come to research and understand more about...
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