First off I want to start with this: I LOVE TEACHING!!!! I have struggled with whether I should keep teaching for some time now or if I should think about a career change. In personalized learning, I have had more time to connect with students in just one week. So far the students are loving… Continue reading Personalized Learning: Week 2
Our first week of PL with 2 classes in the same room as come to a close. We spent the three days that we had together last week getting to know the students and helping the students get to know each other. Here is a break down of our class sizes: 1st block – 30… Continue reading Personalized Learning: Week 1
A reflection on living out my faith in my classroom through trials with students
As we enter into a new calendar year and a new semester I am embarking on a new adventure with another teacher in my room. Our school is starting to taking personalized learning by the horns and offer more personalized learning classes. Our ultimate goal is to take personalized learning and use my experience with… Continue reading Personalized Learning – A new adventure
A Desmose discovery based activity to help algebra 1 students learn about domain and range.
I have decided to keep track of all of the Desmos activities that I have created and reflect on how they went in my classes. I also will post about Desmos activities made by Desmos and other awesome teachers! The first activity is my card sort for sampling techniques for my statistics students. This lesson… Continue reading Card Sort: Sampling Techniques
My Prob & Stats students have been working on Venn Diagrams and set notation for the last few days. After grading their quizzes yesterday it was clear that my students were in different places and there was no common misconception. I was planning on testing this Friday so that my students could enjoy the long… Continue reading Helping Students Take Ownership of Learning
I’m super excited about these group sorting cards that I just created! I find that when you give students playing cards for groups that they will try to trade to be in certain groups. To combat this I made my own group sorting cards that help place students into different groups. Using these cards I… Continue reading Student Grouping Cards
This will be a short post of how I plan to manage and keep track of my parent contact this year. To get started I have created a Google Form with a link and QR code that will go home with all students on the first day of school to gather parent contact information. I… Continue reading Communicating with Parents
One of the biggest struggles in the classroom is keeping the attention of the students. With social media and modern technology students are accustomed to being entertained and everything moving quickly. I am not against technology by any means, but I do believe that student’s “needs” to feel connected through technology greats a great challenge… Continue reading Giving Students Breaks in Class to Increase Engagement
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