Tag Archives: reflection

Deconstruction: What you don’t say is what you do

Posted on March 29, 2018 by draulston

I came across the document copied at the end of this post in the faculty room this morning.  I glanced down it and, perhaps prompted by a book I’m reading now (From the Ruins of Empire), I began to comment to … Continue reading →

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Unpersuasive writing about pedagogy…

Posted on December 13, 2017 by draulston

Jennifer Barnett wrote in a blog for the Center for Teaching Quality about PBL and assessment.  In the course of her article, she says, “Do you want students who can spout facts and vocabulary for an assessment? Or do you … Continue reading →

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Discipline and implicit bias

Posted on December 12, 2017 by draulston

https://www.citylab.com/solutions/2017/12/when-teachers-punish-black-kids-more-severely-than-white-kids/547982/?utm_source=nl__link6_121217&silverid=MzU5NjY0NDk0MjM2S0 What I particularly like about the article is that it’s not a rant and it avoids simplistic solutions.  It also acknowledges that even black teachers can have the behavior.  Which reminds me of the time many years ago when … Continue reading →

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A Modest Proposal 2018

Posted on December 1, 2017 by draulston

I asked my Differential Equations class  (mostly seniors, some juniors) to review what I felt the course content (as opposed to the course process/pedagogy) had been this semester.  It was a list of “things they should be able to do” … Continue reading →

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Assess the Essence

Posted on May 25, 2017 by draulston

(and a second session from the 5.25 inservice) With the move to get rid of “traditional exams” or “final tests,” there has been an exodus to “projects,” which term seems to mean many different things to many different people.  Final … Continue reading →

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Student choice, teacher enjoyment

Posted on May 25, 2017 by draulston

(At our inservice today, I presented two sessions.  Here are the notes I used for the first one) Power of Choice We all like choices, but as students get older, it can be harder to manage the process of giving … Continue reading →

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“Learning the material”

Posted on April 26, 2017 by draulston

I had a senior make a presentation to me in support of her request for an alternative for a final exam. She didn’t want to “come to school to take an exam after school was over.”  While I’m sympathetic to … Continue reading →

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How math theorems really get discovered–maybe

Posted on April 25, 2017 by draulston

This specific post is in response to a query about a derivation of what’s commonly known as Green’s Theorem that I had my MVC class work through, but the general ideas are applicable to a very wide range of ideas/theorems/developments … Continue reading →

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Teaching 2015 (review)

Posted on August 22, 2016 by draulston

Below is a set of notes to myself at the start of the last school year.  The start of this year seems an appropriate time to review them. This document is an attempt to put together some things I know … Continue reading →

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Thinking mathematically

Posted on June 6, 2016 by draulston

In an email exchange involving several former students (now at college) and a colleague, I said, This discussion reminds me that one of the great challenges as a math teacher is to combine the necessary (at least in our current curriculum) skill-set … Continue reading →

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