Imagine a fan blowing full force in your face, comically forcing your lips to flap against your gums as your hair whips around and slaps your cheeks, eyes watering trying to stay open. That's me about a month ago when I discovered #MTBoS (Math Twitter Blog-o-Sphere), Sara VanDerWerf's blog, and Peter Liljedahl's research on "Building Thinking Classrooms." At the same time. If you haven't already read "Building Thinking Classrooms" go do it now. I'll wait. Laura Wheeler also made these nifty posters you can reference (I printed mine out and put them in my "Ideas Based on Research to Use in the Classroom" binder) here, and here's 1 of the 3 posters she made: Reading and seeing what everyone's been posting on the math ed twitterverse has drastically altered how I plan on teaching when I return to the classroom (quite some time after I have baby #2, but I look at the 2 years I'll be away from teaching as an extended planning period during nap time).
I'm already making my own set of "mindful notes" with the guidance of The Amazing Laura Wheeler (via this blog post). And I'm collecting rich, open-ended tasks on the standards I want students to learn by checking out places like:
This is the breath of fresh air I've been waiting for. Or an almost-too-much-to-handle gust of air I've been waiting for. Either way, I'M SUPER PUMPED!
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AuthorTracy Conte is a high school math teacher in Raleigh, NC. Archives
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