Welcome to what we hope will be an organized collection of thoughts about what makes a classroom work. For the rest of this summer and beyond, we will be thinking about many of these questions, though surely not all of them. If you follow our RSS feed.

Most are eager to learn, having been out of regular school for a year or more.

The purpose of this blog is to help generate and share ideas for teaching high school math concepts to students whose skills are below grade level. Wednesday, June 11, 2014. I had a good time this past year playing around with new resources and teaching methods as I worked with my Intensive Algebra students.

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice. The take-aways from this post are first, policies aimed at standardizing classroom practice increase variation in lessons, and, second, teachers are policymakers. Policies aimed at standardizing classroom practice seldom produce homogeneous lessons. Extensive variation after a policy demanding standardization? Cohen and Ball explain.

It is generally agreed in the modern world, that all students need to learn math. And the fact that our schools require everyone to study it, assumes that every pupil is capable of learning it. Unfortunately, standardized tests show us that vast numbers of pupils are not learning it. What is the problem here? Are the math teachers not doing their job? Some of the main features of this new appr.

Being a student of education will make you a better teacher. As teachers we have to be aware of what we are doing and how that helps our students. What does the research say? Your student.

A High Leverage Strategy for Meeting the Common Core Challenge. When it comes to mathematics, California educators face two basic challenges. The first is to make sure every student who graduates from high school has high enough competencies and strong enough math skills to function well in a complex society. New research sheds light on importance of Early Math exposure.

What Makes an Effective Curriculum? Curriculum has the potential to have a dramatic effect on student achievement and teacher quality. When teachers thoroughly learn to use a highly effective curriculum, they learn about how to teach a particular subject and have ready-made lessons and materials organized in a developmental sequence that promotes student learning. How can you tell what makes a good curriculum? So, what kinds of changes? 5 Student Population.

Thursday, July 30, 2015. I find these goal-setting types of posts pretty helpful. Ideally, I will actually go back to this and reread it at some point into the school year.

But in actuality, a completely different approach is needed if the IoT is truly to reach its potential. That approach will be informed by lessons learned from nature and other massive interacting systems. Follow along and let me know what you think. Friday, February 28, 2014. Writing the Book on the IoT.