When I was younger and began teaching swimming to children, I realized how much I enjoyed watching the progress they made, may it be a small or large amount. This is when I decided that teaching may be a good fit for me as a profession. I started out substituting to see what it was [...]
Mr. Cooper is stepping away from “traditional mathematics instruction (Woolfolk,2007, p,505)” in order to teach the students that there is more than one way to learn math and make sense of it. He decides that using a constructionist method of teaching congruent figures will help his students better understand or make sense of problem [...]
My class is a 7th grade language arts class. In order to explain my grading system to my students I would first hand out a class introduction sheet discussing all the items that we would be covering in the classroom including the grading scale, point values, class rules and information and a list of items [...]
First let me apologize for getting my blog in late. I’ve been laid up in bed with a stomach virus and finally felt well enough to get up. The first issue I see in this case study is that Mike made an assumption about what knowledge the students were coming into the class with. The [...]
