Anybody who has been around me in the last 6 months or so knows of my recent fascination with the book Teach Like a Champion. (Lemov, 2010) The book is packed with practical teaching techniques that are markers of a scholarly classroom, with classroom vignettes that illustrate the set-up, variations, and detours any one of […]
I’ m reading Steve Leinwand’s Accessible Mathematics and he poses this question as a bell-ringer or review question for a chapter that was covered a month ago. He points out that making sure that students understand place value is critical but it’s not about one question and then moving on; it’s about asking multiple questions […]
When schools want to create a systemic approach they can and do! So why don’t we see a stronger systematic approach to College Success skill development in high schools?
Back in the Dark Ages when I was a junior in my public high school, I spent one full six-week grading period in English developing, researching and writing a lengthy term paper, complete with footnotes and bibliography–and this in the days before word processing programs could assist with those laborious nuts and bolts! We literally spent every […]
Summer reading is the single summer activity that is most related to summer learning (Heyns, 1978). However, summer reading experiences…
This begins a sharing blog of Mathematics CCSS sources that optimize professional learning opportunities for mathematics colleagues …
In part I of this two part series, I introduced a couple of ideas I have about defining perseverance in problem-solving and some instructional shifts…
