Helping students develop the language of mathematics begins by helping them develop their conceptual understanding using the four language acquisition skills: Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening. As can be seen […]
Working in education takes a specific kind of courage. Educators constantly face the question: Am I competent at what I do? Am I relevant? In 2009 I published Owning Up, […]
In my second blog I talked about how traveling to dozens of schools and talking with hundreds of teachers and thousands of students had, over time, aggregated into an abstraction […]
Close to ten years ago, while serving as President of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) I wrote a President’s Message that was entitled “Go Ahead, Teach to […]
Part 3 of a 3 part blog posts series on overcoming teacher burnout. Read Part 1 and Part 2. Burned out and bummed out? It’s okay. Even the most passionate and motivated […]
Working in education takes a specific kind of courage. Educators constantly face the question: Am I competent at what I do? Am I relevant? In 2009 I published Owning Up, […]
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Helping students develop the language of mathematics begins by helping them develop their conceptual understanding using the four language acquisition skills: Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening. As can be seen […]
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In my second blog I talked about how traveling to dozens of schools and talking with hundreds of teachers and thousands of students had, over time, aggregated into an abstraction […]
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Close to ten years ago, while serving as President of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) I wrote a President’s Message that was entitled “Go Ahead, Teach to […]
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Part 3 of a 3 part blog posts series on overcoming teacher burnout. Read Part 1 and Part 2. Burned out and bummed out? It’s okay. Even the most passionate and motivated […]
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How do we give our students a present without telling them what it is before they open it? Often when we tell our students what they are going to learn […]
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Contrary to all advice educators receive about timely and high quality feedback, I have an alternate hypothesis. Most mistakes children make are the result not of a misconception they have […]
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Welcome to school! As teachers, each year and each class brings new joys and challenges as we get to know our students as people and as learners. We are faced […]
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Recently I wrote a guest blog post on differentiation for Peter DeWitt’s blog Finding Common Ground in EdWeek. I corrected five common misconceptions regarding differentiation and offered suggestions for implementation. […]
continue reading →I made it clear to students the first day that I hoped and expected to learn as much from them as they might learn from me. I explained that I […]
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