Posts relating to teaching and my time as a student teacher and professional educator.
My Math 9 class is studying quadrilaterals, and I wanted them to investigate how quadrilaterals could tile and create other shapes, so I found a project for creating stained-glass window designs from tiled quadrilaterals. Stained Glass assignment To the left…
The following is the narrative, in draft form, of an entire lesson given to my Period 1 Math 9 class last week. The notes were taken by my admin supervisor as part of my observation process as a new teacher.…
I think it’s time to look at a sample of my class notes! Here’s my grade 11 class on Thursday (notes are from Period 7, my second time teaching the lesson). We are covering the end behaviour of rational functions.…
My Pre-Calc 11 class just finished up with a unit on transformations of functions, and I tried out a jigsaw group learning activity for two periods — let’s see what happened! My rationale was pretty straightforward: once the students had…
Isn’t it lovely? I have the students set up in groups of three, roughly facing the front but also inclined towards each other. Some of the students don’t seem to like the desks facing each other, however, and try to…
One of the neat things my new math department does is annual diagnostic exams. We administer a standard diagnostic to each student in the same course to determine their strengths and weaknesses and to determine the incoming knowledge of the…