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…
I had my Grade 9 and 11 classes submit surveys through Socrative, an online tool for quickly collecting student feedback or answers, on their expectations of me and each other for the year. They came up with some very good…
I have thought quite a bit about how to outline my expectations for students at the beginning of this school year. I want my expectations to be simple and straightforward, to express my core values about teaching and to actually…
At the start of my first full school year, I went through the training for new teachers, which among many many other things introduced us to the school’s preferred lesson schema. This pretty closely follows the lesson plans promotes by…