Coming up very soon is the next general election in the state of Oklahoma so lets take a few minutes and talk about how important it is to have the right to vote. In several countries around the world, people get to “choose” who their leaders will be. Some of …
My family loves to watch Doctor Who – especially the reboot! As we watch the latest version of The Doctor save the world (yet again) I am reminded about some very interesting similarities between Doctor Who and My Classroom… The Doctor = The Teacher If you haven’t seen an episode of Doctor …
Well into the the Quest to become Calculus Gods, its time to show how things are working behind the scenes…Most of this information can be found here: http://haselcalc.wikispaces.com/ Over the summer I tried really hard to come up with different things for the students to purchase. Here is a list of …
The quest that is Calculus in my classroom this year has really started to turn interesting. Students have officially moved into that space where teachers can start to feel uncomfortable – they are all over the place! I have students blazing through Quest 3A others scheduling their Quest 2 Boss …
So if you are reading this, my challenge to you is to post to social media with this hashtag: #1CoolThing and attach a picture or post about what cool thing you do with your students. If you are an administrator showcase your school or district. My challenge to you is …
Calculus this week, we continue with trying to figure out how to solve those darn limits. It’s been a struggle for the students to figure out a consistent way to understand what the limit process means. Finding out you are investigating a graph as you approach specific x-values and not about …
This week in Calculus the task was to break down those barriers that students have when we are talking about limits. This is really hard, so on Tuesday we started class off with a Kahoo.it quiz (go ahead and take the quiz, see the feedback and think of the possibilities) over the …
Smarter folks than me have blogged about Oklahoma losing its waiver from the US Department of Education this past week. Smarter folks than me have made some very good points, here are my thoughts… Having not ever been involved in the finance side of public education, I cannot say exactly …
Gamification has started! If you have been following this blog over the summer, then you know that I am making a change to gamification and mastery learning in my calculus classes this year. The students will get credit to spend in the market for doing what they are supposed to …
In the summer of 2013, I had the opportunity to go to the Model Schools Conference in Washington D.C. I got some nuggets to bring back to my school and classroom. One of my colleagues picked up a golden nugget and shared it with me as we rode to the …