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Teaching Transforms: November 2010

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Sunday, November 28, 2010. I don't know about you, but I've had enough holiday feasting to last me through the end of December, easy. (Oh, wait, there are more holidays between now and then? So, rather than food for the body, some food for thought: a reform-minded principal's advice to pre-service teachers. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Twitter Updates 2.2: FeedWitter. Confessions of a Community College Dean. Abort, Retry, Succeed? Taking Note by John Merrow.

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Teaching Transforms: January 2011

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Sunday, January 30, 2011. How can I make the work of learning science and math this much fun? Wednesday, January 19, 2011. I share this with you because it made me laugh out loud:. Since I'll probably never teach complex analysis, quantum mechanics, or in an environment where using the word s* t is appropriate, I can probably never use it in teaching. Sunday, January 16, 2011. Note to self - Phone Home. Other strategies that may come in handy:. When did they start? Why did they start? Subscribe to: Posts...

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Teaching Transforms: June 2014

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Monday, June 30, 2014. Constant Velocity Model - Summary and Implementation Reflection. My current impression is that the constant velocity model is a tool for describing and solving problems related to objects moving with a constant velocity. Two common examples of such motion would be much of our motion in cars between stop lights and falling objects that have reached a terminal velocity. A graph of position vs. time, with the vertical-intercept representing the starting position of the object (rel...

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Teaching Transforms: September 2010

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Monday, September 27, 2010. Audiences (Or, That spotlight in my face is blinding me). Despite my best intentions to keep blogging once school(s) started, it's now been almost a month since I wrote anything here. The reasons are two-fold:. Moving into the student teaching environment has made me think more about audiences, paranoia, and transparency. Now, I'm student teaching at an awesome school with awesome students, parents, teachers, and administrators, and they've all made me start thinking about how...

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Teaching Transforms: It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a projectile!

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Tuesday, July 15, 2014. It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a projectile! Model Summary: 2D Motion of a Particle. How can we tell whether a basketball will make the shot, given a motion map of its position at times early in the shot? Unbalanced downward Force {Earth on Object} ("Feo - the ugly force"), with no horizontal forces. Vertical position vs. time - downward facing parabola (assuming up is ). Horizontal velocity vs. time - constant. Be easier to understand if they already had forces under their belts?

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Teaching Transforms: Funballs!

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Tuesday, July 15, 2014. I seem to have fallen behind on my formal model summaries - although it feels a bit more like they've accelerated away from me / blurred together a bit while I wasn't looking. So, forthwith I present a summary and implementation thoughts for the forces unit(s). Force Model Summaries - Balanced and Unbalanced. Paradigm Lab / Scenario. Forces on an object can be represented by force diagrams with. A point that represents the object. Arrows representing all the forces on that object.

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Teaching Transforms: What is this "Energy" stuff, anyway?

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Monday, July 14, 2014. What is this "Energy" stuff, anyway? After 12 days of discussing the awesomeness of "concept before name", operational definitions, and anchoring experiences, it was a bit jarring to start off the energy unit looking up definitions and formulas on the internet and then launching into a worksheet rather than any sort of concrete experience. Frankly, I think modeling can do better on at least the anchoring experience front. Kelly O'Shea's "Building the Energy Transfer Model". It is j...

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Teaching Transforms: June 2011

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Thursday, June 30, 2011. I'm two mind-blowing weeks into the five weeks of my first summer school teaching experience. I gave the students a Teacher Evaluation as the exit ticket today, and I'm in a more reflective mood myself, so it seems like a good time to jot down some notes. Things that worked well. Curriculum-wise (huge thanks to Dan Meyer for many of the items on this list):. Graphical fractions ( week 2. Chewing gum measuring stick. Russian dolls (inspired by the comments on this post. Asking stu...