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Early Workflow Success
After teaching physics for a year, I had a general sense of the pacing and frustration with not figuring out students’ misconceptions early. An incorrect assumption in math and science travels with you and makes further understanding more and more difficult. I tried giving more homework, but grading would backlog and I still had the…
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Year One, Honors Precalc
Out of college, I applied to the Bentley school to teach. A new high school, about to go into its fourth year and it needed a physics teacher. I did not get that job (though I would a year later) In early August, they suddenly had a math opening. I called them up, and explained…
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Relevance: Physics Homework For Choir Students
At the Bentley School, the choir would compete in a signing competition in Hawaii every year. This would take them out of a week fo school and we had to make packets for them to do while they were off campus. For the physics students, I built packets that were relevant to their trip, such…
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Admissions Mock Classes
At Eastside Prep, we would have mock classes for prospective students. They would join together and participate in a class environment. This served to advertise the way we teach at EPS, in addition, to allowing us to observe classroom behavior of students. This system was fascinating as an educator. You would get an opportunity to…
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Differentiation Through Projects
Differentiation of projects at the proposal stage has been an effective way to meet students where they are in their understanding of course material. Students will naturally select their own level of difficulty when proposing projects. 2005-06 Musical Instrument Project 2001-02 Teaching Elementary Math My first assigned project. In these groups, I distributed the mathematical…
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Number of the Day
Number of the day, later expanded to infographic of the day. Was an effort in data science to bring some student presentations into the classroom. The assignment was to find some datum on the web and bring it in for discussion. If it was a number, we would have the student say the number and…
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Partnered Notes
I first experienced partnered notes in the course Protecting Information, an elective at Williams College. Our co-teachers from the realms of math and physics were running a course on cryptography from the Romans up to theoretical quantum cryptography that would be available in the future. As students, we were assigned in pairs to produce notes…
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todo Quotes Help Outside of Class
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todo Belonging and Success Confidence quotes
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todo Classroom Experience Evidence
from surveys, syllabi etc.
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todo – Struggles with classroom management – quotes
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Classroom Video – Playfish
Playfish makes videos for admissions and development. They shot some B-roll of my class which happens to capture the atmosphere that I strive for. It should be enjoyable to be learning things, humor is a plus and students should be working hard on the material. It is possible to do great work and not take…