I asked the question to a few of my fellow math tweets last
week about what was one thing. They wanted to START doing next year..CONTINUE
doing next year…and STOP doing next year. As you can imagine the response was
to long for Twitter, but it got me thinking about doing a post on my ideas and
hopefully others will follow suit :).
School is approximately a month away for my school district.
Summer where have you gone? I made the blog post a few weeks ago about my dilemma
evolving around the homework/classwork grade which amounts for 10% of my students’
grade.
You can read about it and comment here: http://mathlete06.blogspot.com/2012/06/i-have-read-several-blogs-over-past.html
So I think I have come up with a better solution hopefully.
There are two things that I would like to START this year.
The first one at my wife’s suggestion in conjunction with @druinok,
I will attempt to structure my student’s notes better using CORNELL NOTES.
I think a huge problem that my students had 1st
semester especially the lower achievers was note taking. Hopefully this will
increase the ability of retaining info for those students who chose to use
them.
The second thing on my start list is INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOKS,
which is where the classwork, homework portion of the grade will come from, I
hope!
These are great places to start if you want to know more
about Interactive notebooks to start. I plan on taking up the notebook during
every test and basically performing a notebook check. I need to come up with a
way to remediate this I believe so stay tuned for comments on it.
I want to CONTINUE planning my lessons using the best Math
Lesson Formula ever and I didn’t need my district to waste 200 dollars on
training!
If you just follow the steps prescribed by @k8nowak all your
lessons will be great in no time!
For me the STOP part is easy, I work best when under
pressure, BUT I am going to attempt to start off good, staying ahead of the
curve and finishing strong. Since I am teaching the same thing I taught last
year I just need to tweak items instead of making whole sale changes, i.e., I make notes to problems I want of the test and quiz, but will write them 2 days before I want to give them and make copies first thing in the morning. I want to stay organized I start that way and then fall off. Let me know ur list either through comments, email or own twitter to @tbanks1906
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