The Education Policy and Leadership Center TN Core | Education in Tennessee The Math Forum @ Drexel University The Math Forum has a rich history as an online hub for the mathematics education community. A debt of gratitude is owed to the dedicated staff who created and maintained the top math education content and community forums that made up the Math Forum since its inception. NCTM will continue to make many of the most popular parts of the Math Forum content accessible to the mathematics education community. Problems of the Week The Math Forum created Problems of the Week as an integrated program that features problems by standard and additional teacher support materials. Continue Your Math Education Conversations in MyNCTM! MyNCTM is an online community where NCTM members can ask questions, network and connect with each other, start and join discussions, find and upload resources, and interact with education experts. For many years mathematicians, scientists, engineers and others interested in mathematics have played "year games" via email and in newsgroups. Year Game for 2018 Browse the Archives
Questioning My Metacognition | Trying to be a better teacher Me: What’s a half? Students: When you take something and cut it in half. Me: So what’s a half then? Students: When you take a piece of anything and cut it into 2 pieces.Anticipating this response I quickly grabbed the scissors and cut a piece of paper into 2 obviously unequal parts. Students: That’s not a half because they’re not equal. We formalized our definition of a half and this is what the students came up with: “A half is when a shape or noun is cut, shaded, partitioned into 2 EQUAL parts.” They told me I had to underline equal and I gladly obliged. Student 1 defined half using the term shapeStudent 2 said pizzas needed to be included in our definitionStudent 3 said a cake can be cut in half as wellLast student said “well your bedroom should be included because my sister doesn’t keep her half clean and we get in trouble.” And that is how “noun” got added into our 2nd grade definition. Me: So we all have an understanding of what half means, right? Which shapes are shaded in half?
Center for the Study of Teaching and Policy: Home Page Welcome! The Center for the Study of Teaching and Policy investigates efforts to improve the quality of teaching and learning, the teacher workforce, and the systems of support for teachers’ work, in various contexts and at multiple levels of the K-12 educational system. To that end, Center researchers identify ways that policy actions, leadership, and reform efforts guide, direct, and support teaching and learning, thereby informing and enhancing the quality of learning opportunities in U.S. elementary and secondary schools. Research highlights Recent Center Reports The Center has recently released a synthesis report, Learning-focused Leadership and Leadership Support: Meaning and Practice in Urban Systems. Another line of Center research has produced an examination of the impact of Washington state’s incentives for teachers to attain National Board Certification and to work in challenging schools About the Center
Welcome to the Mathematics Assessment Project Concrete-Representational-Abstract Sequence of Instruction Concrete - Representational - Abstract Sequence of Instruction Purpose The purpose of teaching through a concrete-to-representational-to-abstract sequence of instruction is to ensure students truly have a thorough understanding of the math concepts/skills they are learning. What is it? Each math concept/skill is first modeled with concrete materials (e.g. chips, unifix cubes, base ten blocks, beans and bean sticks, pattern blocks). [ back to top ] What are the critical elements of this strategy? Use appropriate concrete objects to teach particular math concept/skill (see Concrete Level of Understanding/Understanding Manipulatives-Examples of manipulatives by math concept area). How do I implement the strategy? When initially teaching a math concept/skill, describe & model it using concrete objects (concrete level of understanding). How Does This Instructional Strategy Positively Impact Students Who Have Learning Problems? Additional Information Create seperate pages Concrete What is it? .
the deliberate dumbing down of america STARTS NOW Adding to Hunter's diary on loony education theories of the reich wing .. [his] problem is that we're not teaching our children according to the proven principles of [18th] century England... It's much worse: Conservatives see liberal bias in class - and mobilize "Complaints that teachers push liberal ideology are trickling down from college campuses to the K-12 level.. activists have generated a wave of efforts to limit what teachers may discuss and to bring more conservative views into the classroom The founder of this loony bin in college is right-wing activist David Horowitz [who] has a distinguished history of intellectual defamation, historical inaccuracy and political bullying. Ignore them, they're just crazy ? David Horowitz Think Progress As an American who had spent many years working abroad, I had experienced traveling in and living in socialist countries. That was just the beginning.
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