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Ava's Math Blog: Tell a Teacher

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Sunday, December 20, 2009. A couple of student conflicts happened today that gave me pause for thought. The first was relatively minor. A boy said that his female friend hit him. He didn't seem distressed or hurt at all. If anything he seemed amused. I think the two might have been goofing off and seeking adult attention. So I asked him how he handled it. I can't remember what he said, but then I asked if he felt satisfied by how the conflict was resolved (but in different words). So Long (For Now), and ...

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Ava's Math Blog: Administration

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Sunday, December 20, 2009. I am really starting to appreciate how much school policies can affect learning in the classroom. I am used to working in classrooms of students who do not test my classroom management skills and who are generally motivated and well behaved. In the event that I have trouble with a particular student, I can usually call in administrative support (though this has been very rare). I have one student who is regularly disruptive in class. This is pretty frustrating from my perspecti...

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Ava's Math Blog: ELL

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Sunday, December 20, 2009. I have one student in my first period class who is an ELL (English Language Learner) student receiving support from ELL staff. I have many other ELL students, but they are significantly advanced in their English that they no longer need or are granted ELL support.). She does not attend class that regularly, but each morning that she does, a staff member comes to class to check on her. Than other students, and I feel. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Teaching Math in a Disast...

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Technology in Education: Technorati

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Wednesday, December 3, 2008. I am registering this blog with Technorati, a site which follows tons of blogs and organizes them so you can search them and find the very best. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Http:/ avaerickson.blogspot.com/. LGBTQ Awareness Bulletin Board. Http:/ www.gapminder.org/blog/. The Way Forward 1: The Hans Rosling Generation. Please follow me to my new website. Sqrt(sinθ⋅sinθ cosθ⋅cosθ). Secondary Teacher Preparation for Washington State. UWB Education 2.0 Discussion Group.

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Technology in Education: Pidgin vs. Creole

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Sunday, November 30, 2008. Pidgin vs. Creole. Here is an article and interview. With Don Tapscott, the author of Growing Up Digital. And now the author of the sequel, Grown Up Digital. Native speakers, grows up speaking this newly refined creole. Do you feel like a digital native? Our class includes a spread of ages, the youngest end of which might be much more digitally native than me, even though we may only be four years apart. What do you guys feel about yourselves? December 6, 2008 at 12:13 AM.

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Ava's Math Blog: November 2008

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Friday, November 28, 2008. I'm just finishing up the "School-to-Career Transitions" chapter in our text Understanding Youth. I'm trying to work through a couple of thoughts that seem to contradict each other. First off, in UY. On the other hand, I began thinking about a book I read by Eric Gutstein, Reading and Writing the World with Mathematics. He critiques the National Council Teacher of Mathematics Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics. Do my questions even make sense? Sessions t...

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Ava's Math Blog: Reading

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Sunday, December 20, 2009. My Algebra I kids don’t like to read. When given an assignment on a worksheet or in the book, they just sit there. When I check in with their groups, they ask, “What are we doing? 8221; or “I don’t even know what were supposed to be doing.”. Students seem to ask this question regardless of how many oral or written instructions are given. I’m not sure how to make changes such that this is less of a problem. Perhaps some of it is because they want the individual teacher attention.

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Ava's Math Blog: Sexism

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Sunday, December 20, 2009. Period class has a number of “energetic” boys. Some of them I know for sure struggle with ADHD and are usually on medication which helps increase their focus and productivity, but they sometimes forget or cycle off it for various reasons. Today when I was teaching that class, I called three people up to the front of the classroom to explain their work. When I looked back, I realized they were all boys, and they were not the best behaving boys. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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Ava's Math Blog: Classroom Norms

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Sunday, December 20, 2009. I had an interesting experience setting classroom norms and rules in one of my classrooms at the beginning of the year. I'm reminded of this episode as we get closer to student teaching, because I will have to reset norms with my students. At the beginning of the year, I used a process that one of the other classroom teachers used, and that my cooperating teacher wanted to try out. From the group lists, one class list was generated. On the fly we modified the procedure so that ...