It's Thursday, a teacher workday. For the kids school starts Monday. This semester I'm teaching Math 1-A and Honors Math 3, and for the most part I know the topic of each day in each class. I just have a hard time organizing my thoughts at this point to know if I'm "ready" for Days 1, 2, and 3. Do I have my powerpoints for the Day 1 opener/introduction to class ready? Does it have everything I want to communicate to the kids; my belief in them, my high expectations, my desire to see their brains grow? When do I introduce the NumberTalks? And how often? How do I keep up with and respond to the 2-times-a-week Remind 101 reflections I'm having my students do (for the first time ever!). I feel like I'm all over the place with planning that I don't know how to get organized. Should I make a little notecard for each day of a unit and list all the things I need to do in class in order? And I can't forget about the deep questions I need to ask my students- should those go on the notecards too? For what feels like the first time ever my school has done some incredible professional development in the first few days that I'm excited to get started and get to know my students. I'm doing the "Who I Am" worksheet in all 3 classes, and my goal is to go around the room, introduce myself, and get to know the kids. Afterwards we'll discuss some talking points, and then I'll show them this video on growth mindset and what it means to make mistakes. I want to promote working together on the first day, so I'm having them do Four 4's together, although 1-100 looked pretty cool too (but I wanted my Math 1-A students to get more familiar with various operations before they go into solving equations). "Homework" or "Closure" as I like to call it now, thanks to When Math Happens, is to fill out their information using a Google form, and reflect on why mistakes are important in learning. I think typing all this out has helped me deconstruct my thoughts, and I think I will go with the notecard idea. Day 1, here we go!
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AuthorTracy Conte is a high school math teacher in Raleigh, NC. Archives
November 2019
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