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Homework
Over the years, I feel like I have become more and more resistant to doing work at home. My first year, I took home a crate full of papers to grade every weekend. Now I try to get all my … Continue reading
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All the running you can do
This year, my school is a “turnaround school”. We are undergoing what BCPSS calls the Expanding Great Options process. What that meant for us is that they brought in a new principal, and replaced half of the teachers. And that’s … Continue reading
Long Day
Today is shaping up to be an extremely long day at work, in part because I will be away from school the next two days at a conference and training. Got in this morning at 6:45am, since I had so … Continue reading
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Who Knows Where the Time Goes
Just about every teacher I know has been feeling overwhelmed recently. Come into work at 7:30 in the morning, leave at 7:30 at night with lots of tasks still not finished, laid out on the desk for the next day. … Continue reading
Tracking or Not?
[Note: this started as a comment on BmoreSchools' "Tracking by ability…gifted? average? mediocre?", but grew so long that I thought I should make a whole blog post out of it.] Classroom Intellectual and Knowledge Diversity At my school, classes are not … Continue reading
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SBG Update
OK. I haven’t talked much about Standards-Based Grading (SBG) since last September. I’ve changed some things about how I implement SBG, which I shall describe here, along with how things went. Geometry, Fall 2010 Here’s how I set up my … Continue reading
Roles
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the roles I play at work. I made a list over spring break of things I do (more of a concept map, actually) with over a hundred branches and sub-branches. From meeting with … Continue reading
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The Numbers Game
The news has been filled recently with stories about Baltimore City Public Schools valuing numbers above true education. For example, this Baltimore Sun letter to the editor exposing pressure from North Avenue to graduate more students (sending back the number … Continue reading
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Tips for Teaching English Language Learners
This week #ELLchat had one of the best topics of discussion yet (for my particular situation anyway): ”Tips for preparing gen ed teachers for diversity in the classrooms”! A few weeks ago I wrote about the value I get from #ELLchat, … Continue reading
Procrastination
While I do think and plan ahead, I don’t actually do things often until the last minute. In teaching, I am usually preparing that day’s materials in the morning. This is part of what brings me to school most days … Continue reading
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