tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-102204982024-03-19T04:21:29.151-05:00Math Teacher Mambo"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible."
― Dalai LamaShireen Dadmehrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16282965851939089408noreply@blogger.comBlogger936125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10220498.post-89924379226993492012019-05-22T12:18:00.000-05:002019-05-22T12:18:21.179-05:00End Of Year Letter to Myself<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Dear 2019 May Self,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Hi! Remember when you were this
young? And remember how in the past you have made students write letters to the
incoming kids in your class with various prompts of “what would you do
differently?” and “what did you like and wish to change about this class?” ?
Then remember when you had an epiphany sometime in April 2019 about writing a
letter to yourself, your older more rested end-of-August self that will be the “new
teacher in class”? Great. Do it. </span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">What do you want to remember about
this year and about what to do or change or keep or stress in your 23<sup>rd</sup>
year of teaching next year. Remember that you had on the agenda to teach for
2019-2020:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Algebra 1 preAP, AP Calculus
AB, Precalculus preAP, Digital Electronics, and APCS-A. Aaaaah, good times.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Wow. What a year! Is there any year
you don’t think this? If you recall, you taught: Algebra 1 preAP, AP Calculus
AB, Digital Electronics, and APCS-A. Here are some thoughts and things you want
to remember for next year.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Life/General Things/All Classes:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">No
one likes to be “yelled at”. I know you didn’t <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">yell</i> at her, but remember that time you chastised a student in
front of the whole class for being on her cell phone. Yes, you were thinking of
5,000 things, yes, you were tired, but it turned out she was done with what you
had been asking them to do and was just waiting for the next thing. Then she
shut down for the rest of the class. Good thing you apologized properly, but
still. Figure out a way to either humorously get the same task done or don’t
even go there.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Remember
that you are teaching students and not Information-Inhalers. Make sure to ask
after them and check in with how things are. Remember the student with family
cancer issues. Remember the student Ms. L talked about who just blurted out in
her college essay prep about the horrific things going on at home. You need to
check in more frequently.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Remember
how good it felt to choose fun instead of endless work. Remember you soaked up
weekend fun and were all refreshed inside and out as Monday rolled around?
Remember to not take work home because it’s usually just a field trip for
papers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Remember
to hang around with teachers that are not “mean girls”. Life is too short for
that. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Remember
your idea of starting this document early in the year so that you could write
these things down as they came up and you wouldn’t potentially forget them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">After
22 years, I have jumped on the grade for accuracy bandwagon. I let them redo
homeworks to build up points, but remember how they worked harder to understand
because of this.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Answer
Banks rule.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Algebra 1:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">They
are little puppy dogs who pee on the rug, but they are super cute and fun to be
around aside from the constant chatter and off-task behavior. Soak up their
cuteness and their ability to be amused by silliness.</span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">After
looking at a kid’s notebook and seeing that it was not helpful at all, you
realized you had to do a better job of making notes that they could easily
refer to and figure out what’s what after time passes. Hey! Better page titles
that specify skill. Hey! If you hand out a “cool” assignment to finish in class
that will “solve ALL THEIR PROBLEMS” and are all impressed with yourself,
remember the ½ sheets that had them solve various types of special quadratic
equations on 4 separate ½ sheets that each had a different color. You rushed
them through apparently. You never went back and checked they did it right. You
never made them link each sheet to a generic “what type of problem is it”. You
never then practiced just that and made sure they went back to use this
resource. Winning! Things like this had/have potential, but you need extra time
with it.</span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Holy
Moly, you need to find the strugglers early in the year and FORCE them to come
in frequently for tutoring. You can’t rely on your “they are in HS now and have
to fend for themselves and learn how to ‘student’ “ attitude. They are babies.
They still need hand holding. Don’t be a loser, Dadmehr! Remember how cute they
are. Remember how after Z. and E. came in at the end of the year, they pulled
up their grades.</span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Use
the power of parents. A quick email home may get the little kidlet in and doing
work lickety split.</span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Who
would have thought? You need a word wall or some sort of vocabulary resource.
Remember when after ½ the year went by and then you had a student ask you what
a word meant. I don’t remember the word, but I do remember thinking, “geez, how
did you do so well before on tests and homework when you have no clue what this
word means?”. Don’t assume. Don’t just mention periodically, “if you don’t know
a word, ask”. They won’t/don’t. You need to push the issue. And do it effectively.</span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Remember
that around early May, FINALLY 2 seniors, LP and YR who had been struggling all
year and never completing homework on time and never coming for help and never
asking for help in class finally came in for help on Volumes of Revolution. And
how proud they were when they got 100% on a quiz. And LP’s comment, “Is that
all it is? I thought it would be way harder.” </span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Remember
also to force these kids to come in for help. You need a better system other
than just putting it on them. What about you once a 6 weeks schedule a 5-minute
session to gauge things. And they get individual attention. Then you can see
how things really stand and set up a mandatory system for them to get more
help. Can you map out class time for one-on-one?</span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Oh,
and that reminds me. Some of their EOY comments about my tutoring time being so
overcrowded that they couldn’t get help needs to be addressed. Can you
designate one time a week where it’s only ONE subject and not everyone?</span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Remember
to adjust the number of hwk problems. It was too much to grade and for them to
do. </span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
formative quizzes worked great. Thank you AP Annual Conference Guy who shared
his idea. I liked that they could redo. I liked the 6/5 points and ½ page-ness.</span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Remember
not to provide worked-out keys. They started to use them for evil and not good.
Even the kids who were “good at calculus” got lazy. See earlier comment about
grading on accuracy.</span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Oh!
Change homework structure so that it’s DUE next class ideally, or within 1 week
of handing it out if they want (eventual?) full credit. They can redo, but if
the first time they do it is way later, the grade needs to represent that. This
seemed to work out well so that they didn’t procrastinate tooooo much and they
didn’t stress too much about finishing it in 2 days and then just being sloppy
with it.</span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">MORE
FRQS all through the year.</span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">OMG
how did you lose so much time and not have time for 4 major topics? Too much
time on soldering? Too much time on SSD project? Figure it out, Missy.</span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Geezus,
remember their breadboards for the SSD project. Here are some things you need
to teach better: (videos? Notes? Other?) jumping, stripping not too much, XYZ
switches and how you do NOT attach both X and notX to power and ground, for
example, not using the same row to jump for different paths, not using the same
row to jump for itself, you can’t jump via columns, Hey, Dadmehr, you should
really check their Multisim printout before they start to breadboard. Some kids
who didn’t finish in time, printed it out and then way later you found out that
they had done the pin numbers wrong or wrote them in or it wasn’t even working
on Multisim.</span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Hey!
Map out the timeline of the whole year in August. Do it! Do it, trust me …… put
in the bajillion days they will be gone for Internship and ARS stuff and life.
Then stick to it otherwise you will run out of time.</span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Hey,
you did a great job on the SSD ½ sheets that helped them map out pin numbers
and gates and chips and such. Do that again.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There's algebra! geometry! trigonometry! rational functions! ln x! fractions! It's like all your years bundled up into one. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> I have created a practice sheet for them to use at home. All triangles are such that they can be reference triangles in Q1. I am hoping that the repetitive nature will help. Then on the back, I have the same set up, but the side values are omitted. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My thinking is that after this is perfected (maybe I should have a quiz they must answer in a set amount of time), then the next installment is a picture of the xy-plane with a terminal side marked in Q1 with the angle given. Then the final installment is just the statement given.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hopefully, this will work to keep things stuck in their brains. </span>Shireen Dadmehrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16282965851939089408noreply@blogger.com80tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10220498.post-62735904258648823812018-07-24T09:59:00.002-05:002018-07-24T10:20:52.380-05:00Make It Stick Changes<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I finally had life/brain/school space to read this game-changing book (<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Make-Stick-Peter-C-Brown-ebook/dp/B00JQ3FN7M/ref=mt_kindle?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=" target="_blank"><span style="color: #674ea7;">Make It Stick</span></a>). The fuss is now crystal clear. Because of this, I am changing how I do homework and flipped lessons and tests and reviewing in my Calculus class. I will also change other classes, but this is the one I am most worried about right now. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">tldr: there is a linked document above the first picture with next year's baggy problems and a notebook insert.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I felt I was doing a good job teaching them, and maybe I was, but after my results on the AP exam this year, that were DRASTICALLY poorer than the previous years, I reflected on what I did differently. I know I had a different population of kids. I know they had life issues that were so enormous, it's a wonder they still came to school and functioned semi-normally. I know their time was pulled in all sorts of different ways. I know all that. I also know I am a good teacher, so I am not fishing for praise (hah! or maybe I am one of those people who thinks they are one way but are really not). I just also know that this year's results were a big suckfest. Boo. The one thing I did change was that I made a copy of the homework key all worked out, every period, for every kid. I was trying to be helpful. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I wanted them to see how the problems were worked and be able to learn from examples and skip happily into the sunset in their new-found calculus knowledge. Homework doesn't count for much of a percentage in my class, and my thinking has always been that homework is for practice and students shouldn't be penalized for trying or for making mistakes. I know there are a ton of different theories and ways teachers approach homework, and obviously, everyone should do what feels best for them and their students. I see now that potentially a certain portion of my students did not use the key as intended. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There are always those students who do the right thing and have an effective way of "studenting", and they used the system wisely. They also passed the AP exam. I also know that there are students who half-heartedly (that wasn't the first body part that came to mind for that adverb) "attempted" each problem and put something down all in the mistaken belief that, "oh, Dadmehr will just show me how to do it next class. I don't have time for this calculus nonsense."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Rinse that and repeat all year, and you have a math student who does not know how to solve problems. Sure this isn't the first time I thought that's how they were attempting some (all?) problems, but I thought that the incentive of test grades would lead them on the right path. Silly me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Also, I always knew that I should do cumulative or spiraling of concepts both in review and on homework, but I could never make myself adhere to this consistently.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Fast forward to now. I will change my world. All things will now work perfectly and all students will get 5's and I will be continually doing a happy dance. Thank you "making it stick" and AP Conference. ... Or maybe not, but I have high hopes about these changes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My first thought was how to effectively (for me) get the students to do interleaved practice (as they call it) so that they can interrupt forgetting of concepts from long ago. The following is what I have latched onto. I will have a large baggy that stays in the class. Students will each buy and keep in the baggy some index cards (2 packs?). I will have them put the shown insert in the bag, copied on pretty paper (that will make all the difference), and they will put their name on one side largely on the inserted instructions: (can download here: <a href="https://app.box.com/s/3eq4yabajfvi5w0i9afkxlxg562w8d7x" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">word</span></b></a> <b><a href="https://app.box.com/s/rsfaweue9a46i1iarowmz7jl50111ngq" target="_blank"><span style="color: #674ea7;">pdf</span></a></b>).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Each class day, or every new concept day, I will have them create at least one new problem. They can follow the examples I have given, but the numbers or something should be different. They will follow the format from the insert. I want only the problem on the front (nothing about the answer or what unit it is from). Then on the back, they will work it out, and on the top will list the answer and the concept.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I will collect it at the door and correct and hand it back next class, and put the baggy back in our storing place. Eventually, they will have a wide range of practice problems. Now, periodically, in class, I will say, pull out 3 (2? whatever) cards and BY YOURSELF WITHOUT NOTES OR HELP do the problems on a separate paper (notebook?). Also, put a check mark on the top to indicate you have done this. Then check your work and/or refer back to the appropriate notes to fix your weaknesses in this topic. I feel like this will interrupt their forgetting. It will also give them a hint as to what they need to work on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I also see that potentially, they could swap temporarily the cards or they can search for certain topics or they can see if they haven't done any of the problems since there are no check marks and then attempt those. They also are working blind and potentially don't know what topic it is, so this mimics the AP exam, and helps them distinguish key words/phrases that will help with recall. A thing I still need to think about: how can I make them have a variety of easy/medium/hard problems?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Also, I am still not finalizing how I will do homework. Based on the book, I see that certain students were not struggling effectively with the content, so it wasn't sticking in their memories. I will no longer provide any key. They can come in for tutoring. I will have worked out examples available. I always have an answer bank at the bottom, so they know if they did it right mostly. I need to take this worked-out key crutch away from them so that they use their brains more. I will also mix up the work and not just have it on the current content. So this was all my plan before I went to the Houston conference. Now I have some different ideas rolling around in my mind that I haven't solidified yet, but anyway, here is the insert for their notebooks (see above the other picture for the links):</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I want to go over this with them and discuss learning and all the reasons why I am teaching this way. I want them to have this to refer back to. I will also start moving my videos to edPuzzle, based on something else I learned in Houston! Apparently, on edPuzzle, you can insert questions for the students all through the video, and, get this (!), the video will not progress until they answer them, AND apparently, the students can't go to another tab or whatever and pretend to watch the video because it will stop. So excited to try this! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This will make it a more active learning process when they are taking notes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I am excited to try these things this year and hopefully make my students learn more effectively.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Shireen Dadmehrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16282965851939089408noreply@blogger.com43tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10220498.post-19728644653299339762018-02-25T14:42:00.006-06:002018-02-25T14:42:54.527-06:00Functions and Rates of Change<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some students in calculus get confused when you are comparing a function and its derivative and second derivative. I get various creative answers of "if a function is positive, then its derivative is positive" .... "if a function is increasing, then its derivative is increasing". I am hoping that this activity will make things gel for more students. Who knows. Not me, but I am willing to try. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Shireen Dadmehrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16282965851939089408noreply@blogger.com56tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10220498.post-53604165537082925552017-11-12T15:42:00.000-06:002017-11-12T15:42:20.939-06:00Blogging Not Blogging <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well apparently I don't blog anymore. I've reflected on why this is, and I guess it's a mix of a ton of different things. I remember in the past I would come home from teaching and be all bustling to dissect my day and thoughts and school experiences on this blog. Now? Not so much. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. I am (still) grieving, and most of my non-school effort is about self-care. I go to kickboxing 3 nights a week when other things don't interfere. I am not staying late at school on any day and choose instead to tutor during the mornings and lunchtimes. I am trying to get to bed at 8:30 pm so that my 4:30 am wake up alarm to go running or stretching is not so jarring. It seems to take all my energy to not be a puddle of tears these days. I am one of those annoying people that if before my husband died I had heard about someone else grieving "still" after 2 years, I would think they would "just need to move on" or something else ridiculous. I would like to go kick myself in the younger, non-widowed ass. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2. I am teaching 4 different subjects and most of my work time and more weekends than I would like are spent in prepping for them. I like the variety of challenges, but whew it's draining sometimes. Still trying to work out the APCS A bugs and getting my first-time-ever programming kids up to speed in a fun and effective way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3. Too many people that know me in "real life" know about my blog, so it seems weirder now to just blather on than if it was just "strangers" reading this. The same thing happened with my Instagram "exercise" account. I really don't appreciate whoever programs those things for the fact that they probably scrub through all your data and friends and find links and then "suggest" you to people. Now I have former students looking at my exercise-clothed body and that is just too weird, so I have stopped posting there, too. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4. Most of my "new" things I am trying in my classes this year have more to do with "the whole kid" as opposed to my subjects. I am trying more mindfulness things and more connecting with the kids things and more cheerleading them on to trying challenging problems things.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anyway. All this to say that I now lift the guilt of not blogging off my shoulders. I still love learning from the MTBoS and twitter and other blogs, so I appreciate everyone else that steps up to the contributing plate and shares with us. </span>Shireen Dadmehrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16282965851939089408noreply@blogger.com32tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10220498.post-27171002699328141672017-10-01T16:12:00.001-05:002017-10-01T16:12:35.624-05:00People Skills<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Poof! Just like that, 1/6 of the school year is over. AND I am almost prepared for school to start (one day I will finish all the beginning of the year chores ... or not). </span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What are my new things this year? I want my AP Calculus students to succeed in spite of themselves. Some of them get into the senior mode or life gets in their way or they drop the ball on putting in the needed effort to truly understand things. So I have implemented 3 new things in class.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">First, I want their whole minds to be on math during class. It's probably unrealistic, but a teacher has to try. To this end, I want them to ideally rid their thoughts of all the other stress and junk that has built up during the day. So one day early on, we took 8 (?) pieces of colored paper and stapled them together, and folded them to make a "book". On the front we titled it, "Toxic Dump". Now every day at the start of class all of us do a silent timed writing (3 minutes) where we just empty out anything that is occupying our heads or stressing us out or making us angry or whatever. In this way, I hope to create more brain space for them to learn. Nobody sees their books but them, so they are free to vent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I had one kid say (at the beginning), "are we going to do this every class?" I said yes, but then asked her why she was asking, since she then had a funny look on her face. She mentioned that she didn't think she would always be so stressed and frazzled. Hah! I said that I hoped not, and that on those days she could write about the great things that happened or doodle. And I have also had one student ask me at the start of every class, "are we going to Toxic Dump today?". When I asked why she was asking, she said, "I just didn't want you to forget." Finally, I have heard different students mutter, "whew! I have a lot to write about today." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The second thing I am doing is daily (or frequent) warm ups that involve a deeper and active analysis of what they just learned or that involve writing or explaining ... basically thinking and processing. This takes about 5 or so minutes. I was caught unaware many times last year when I THOUGHT they got stuff if they never asked or came for tutoring, but then on the rare occasion (and usually too late) when I scratched the surface with a kid or two later, I found out that, nope, didn't understand some basics. I guess they get into the mode of "hiding" or "smiling and nodding" because everyone else seems to get it, or maybe they are just too overwhelmed and have too many other balls to juggle that they don't address their misunderstandings. I am sure that there are still those kids, but maybe with a more frequent revisiting of important things, they will do better. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now that I am writing this, I guess I don't know how I am assessing this daily. There never seems to be time to check in with each kid. I just go on the assumption that if they don't ask questions and don't come in to tutoring then .... I will have to think on this more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My awesome teacher friend and I had a blast teaching Algebra 1 last year to 9th graders (I am still in that honeymoon stage of thinking they are precious and hilarious ... check in with me in June to see if I am at the 7-year-itch-divorce-stage yet) and are excited to go another round this year. I think we are going to do a mix of CPM-type stuff and Bootstrap Algebra. Should be a fun ride. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Though my PD was phenomenal, there was one presenter that rubbed me the wrong way sometimes. But I guess, as with all things, that comes from me experiencing life through my experiences and my lens. He was a college professor. He had this habit of assuming we did not know anything. For example, I overheard him trying to help another teacher out through a programming problem in Scratch (a programming tool). He basically proceeded to basically tell her how to teach and explain why he was helping her the way he was. "So you see, if you link things to what the students know from previous experience, it will stick better" ..... was one of his statements. Of course this is true, but him basically assuming we don't know how to teach ... unpalatable. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My next truth is that "tinkering is powerful/useful/necessary/fun". I have had the privilege of delving into engineering teaching and CS teaching. My M.O. for both have been to mostly say to the kids, "you will figure it out" or "play around with it and see what happens". I want them to not shy away from exploring just because they are passively waiting for someone else to give them the answers. That is not empowering. That is not a good life skill. Of course I guide them and check in on their path, but I do NOT want to be "that" teacher that says, "so here is how you do this". Then the poor little humans just think that they need some expert to always be there to show them the way. Not true. Even if they don't at first always solve their problems on their own, eventually, they have the gumption to at least try various things and not be afraid of failing or making mistakes (gasp! the horror!).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I grew up. I moved away. I met other people and saw how they lived and what their values were. I became a better person. I even went on to get a PhD in Computational and Applied Math (still not the smartest person in my program .... but stubborn and determined). I worked for 2 years in industry, did not think I was contributing in a good way to society and did not want to spend my days that way, and decided I wanted to teach, and here I am, starting my 21st year and loving it. So I know from experience that the person I was in ES, MS, and HS is totally not the person I am today. I met wonderful people that showed me what it meant to be a good and compassionate and ethical human (not that I am this all the time, but I know what it looks like and I strive for it). </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My husband of 20+ years died suddenly and unexpectedly at the age of 53 last school year, one week into school. These days, any time I think back to last school year, I don't know how I muddled through, or more accurately, I don't remember lots of things that happened. I guess I know how I muddled through, you just go through the motions each day, concentrating on keeping your mind occupied and making lists of things you need to do, and you just mindlessly do it. In fact that is how I muddled through: keeping my mind occupied with chores, so I wouldn't have to think of the horror that was my circumstances.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It seems obvious once I write the following, and it's still unreal to me, but the fact is that I am a different person now. I guess, how can you not be when something so traumatic happens in your life. I used to be a more bubbly and easily-cheerful person. I used to think that everything would always work out (since it seemed to for me). I took tons of things for granted because I was sure they would always be there. My first thought NEVER was (as it is now) that you could die soon, so you better soak up all the goodness that is in your situation. Also, what I spend my energy on these days has changed. Thus, why I blog way less. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And then all this seems like I am probably walking around moping and sad sack all the time and raining on others' parades. No. In fact, today for example, I had lunch with a friend, and my stomach hurt from all the laughing we did. This has happened many times in the last 20 months. I cherish these moments more now since I know that quite possibly later something could trigger an Andrew memory, and I will be a sobbing mess for a bit. In fact, the other day, I couldn't figure out why he was so suddenly on my mind that day as nothing in particular reminded me of our life together. Then it hit me. I was having one of THOSE weeks where I was so school/life stressed out, that I just needed him to hold me and pet my head and reassure me that things were going to be okay. I wanted not to be an adult for a bit and to be taken care of in that loving way. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So that is one thing I am more conscious of, being grateful for the many great moments in my life. Another thing is that you have to really listen to what people are saying to you, regardless of the words that are coming out of their mouths. 90% of the times when I mention I am a widow to someone in a conversation, it just goes on and the person glides over that fact, like I had just mentioned that I had a peanut butter sandwich for lunch. My tone is not crying and sad when I mention it, but it is a horrific thing, and it is not an every-day occurrence. I didn't realize how much it bugged me until one day I was in my favorite co-op grocery store near school and mentioned it to a worker as we were chatting. I was ready to continue the conversation, and then he stopped and said, "wait", and got up from where he was sitting stocking something and came over and hugged me. I almost started crying because of his generosity and humanity. That's the person I want to be. The one that processes things someone says no matter their tone, and makes sure to acknowledge their pain or their joy and celebrate or commiserate with them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There are many other things I now know, but I think those are two life skills that everyone should embrace and practice regularly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Now onto the math. I have 5 preps this year, and one things that is kicking my (time) butt is Algebra 1 for grade-level students. The awesome teacher who is teaching one of our 3 sections and I are constantly creating new worksheets and figuring out the right recipe to engage them and to make things stick in their heads. We most definitely don't always get it right, but I am proud at some of the things we have come up with. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Then, of course, we taught solving by factoring. I liked the fact that we had them explore on the graphing calculator and make the immediate connection to x-intercepts and reinforced the fact that y = 0 at these solutions, and kept asking out loud, "what would you plug in to make y equal to zero". Since we are also on a time crunch for the state test (Thank you, Texas, for shoving more topics down to Algebra 1), we also tossed in some parabola terms on this sheet as we went over it (vertex, axis of symmetry). A side note, we got in the habit of putting "name" and "date" on our worksheets in different languages. So that's why that is in Navajo. <span style="color: purple;"><a href="https://app.box.com/s/60m026w01z1afrari3x34vjar6hoom8g" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: yellow;"><b>HERE</b></span></a></span> is a link to the packet. Ackh, also, we notice<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">d a typ<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">o on all the "e" problems. That should be "y = ...."</span></span></span><br />
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Shireen Dadmehrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16282965851939089408noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10220498.post-70617820238123235662016-08-20T13:01:00.004-05:002016-08-20T13:01:50.589-05:00Algebra 1 Concept Map<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am excited to be teaching Algebra 1 again this year. It's been about 6 years (more?). I have other classes, too, but this is the one that I haven't taught for a while, so I am a new person and hopefully I can bring all the new things I've learned in the last while to the little kidlets. I was at PCMI this summer, and one of the key take-aways I will be using in class is more and more frequent reflections on just about everything. The kids should be processing their information and recalling it frequently. I know this is nothing new, but I want to make a conscious effort this year for this.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Also, I love how my AP Calculus AB and APCS concept maps turned out to work in the last 2 years, so I will be handing out this concept map to my students in Algebra 1 this year:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">* Increases grey matter in your mind.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">* Increases compassion. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">* Eases stress and anxiety.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">* Boosts cognitive function.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">* Allows you to focus more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We also watched a 14:27 minute TEDx talk called, "Why Aren't We Teaching You Mindfulness" with AnnMarie Rossi. I recommend it highly for her arguments as to why this practice is so useful in anyone's life. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">First, I have just made my First Day Homework assignment. I can't spell school without homework. Here are the front and back pages of it, and <a href="https://app.box.com/s/blxxx88mjetg1g8deylvuz4t5v3s1id9" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;"><b>HERE</b></span> </a>is a link to a download.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And let the year begin ..... </span>Shireen Dadmehrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16282965851939089408noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10220498.post-56183275253430338182016-03-26T18:08:00.003-05:002016-04-07T02:32:58.638-05:00Almost April<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Oy! As with every year, you wonder where the time has gone. This year has been quite different though because of Andrew dying at the start of the year, and then me muddling through the following 7 or so months, putting on my professional face, sometimes hitting the mark, sometimes phoning it in, most times somewhere in the middle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I haven't had the energy or time to create many new activities. I have 6 preps and an over-addled mind, so I haven't been posting much. Yay Life!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But here are some things that I find successful this year. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Last summer, I went to many workshops, and in a few I was always so frustrated when I or someone else asked a question and then the presenter answered, but they didn't really answer the intended question. The situation also then went on that either the asker didn't pursue it or the presenter quickly went on to something else. This stuck with me, so that now, this year, every time a student asks a question, I answer it, and then I immediately follow up with, "did I answer your question?". I then gauge the situation. There are times when I didn't answer it as intended, so then that gives me a chance to try again. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The next thing I am loving is the increased use of peer editing/checking. I am using it in both CS classes and in DE and IED (the engineering classes). First of all, it lets students see how others are handling the problem. Second of all, it fixes the minor bugs so that when I grade something, it's more correct. My colleague and I did make an adjustment, though, with our freshmen IED class. We found that students were blindly signing off on something that may or may not have been correct. We added the extra incentive that if you sign off and it is not correct, 1% is taken of your grade. This seems to have an effect of more careful checking. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Third thing is that I am trying harder to actually talk non-math/school topics with the students more often than comes up when they initiate (which was my MO before). Now I will start a conversation with a student if they are sitting in my class hanging out or doing corrections or whatever. I have had some great talks with students just because of this initiative. I have learned some funny and sad and exciting things. It helps school feel more close knit to me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I am curious what next year will bring and if my mind will be more in the game. I traveled solo to Barcelona this past spring break and it was all sorts of amazing and sad and exhilarating. I am going to PCMI this summer, so that should be exciting and recharging of my math brain. I have also bought a new smaller house and will be moving soon from the memory-laden house I lived in with my husband since June 2003. So this summer will be one for changes. </span><br />
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Shireen Dadmehrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16282965851939089408noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10220498.post-10738084237631018752016-01-01T19:30:00.001-06:002016-01-01T19:30:18.581-06:00Happy New Year 2016<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What does one do when they're bored over Holiday Break? They make up new worksheets for students to do on that first day back to school. Our day on January 5 will have super short classes, so after looking at their finals, they won't have much time to do math. But I can't stand just sitting there, so this is what I've created. Don't know how it will work, and it hasn't been road tested yet. My inspiration was a brilliant.org thing on facebook. Here's a <span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://app.box.com/s/pi332po56v8kncuvi5i3raplabjcq693" target="_blank"><b>link</b></a></span> to the file.</span><br />
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<br />Shireen Dadmehrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16282965851939089408noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10220498.post-31860983199198217732015-10-31T08:06:00.002-05:002015-10-31T08:06:31.979-05:00Related Rates take 1,353,577<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is TOTALLY going to be the year that I teach Related Rates *so* well, that the students will wonder what all the fuss is about its difficulty. Right? At least it keeps me busy picking apart and analyzing what they are struggling with and trying to address all issues. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I started with a flipped lesson just showing applets of related rates. The next class I had planned was walking through these notes:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mother Nature had her say on Friday in Texas, and our school was on Tornado Watch Lockdown and classes were shortened of time. We got through 1/2 this sheet. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But I am keeping my fingers crossed. This. Is. My. Year. </span>Shireen Dadmehrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16282965851939089408noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10220498.post-24862156836936633792015-10-25T10:32:00.004-05:002015-10-25T10:32:49.649-05:00Nine Weeks In....<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Time (as always) flies and before you know it, there are only 2 weeks left in the 2nd 6 weeks. Thank goodness I've taught all of my preps in one form or the other before, so I can pull some dusty memories from my brain and then adjust what and how I do things instead of starting from scratch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">* Answer Banks! Heavens bless the answer banks. The students get immediate feedback and are willing to work harder on the problem. Of course, this is barring any teacher mistakes, ahem. They are used to the *few* mistakes I make, and my rationalization is that it makes them think a wee bit more carefully to justify their answers before they check with me. Then the NEXT year's class will think I'm SOOOO perfect (once I fix the mistakes) and .... who am I fooling, there will be new worksheets and fresh new exciting mistakes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">* Peer Checking! In my project-based classes, I have jumped on the peer checking band-wagon I observed in an English class once. For every step of their projects, they have to get another student to check the part and make sure it is correct before they get me to sign off on it. We have a discussion on why this job is important and how you don't want to let the check-ee down. It also gets kids to talk to each other and to see how others do things. I make it so that they can't ask the same person to check everything. I also like to break the projects down to little parts, and sometimes I grade the little parts, so that their WHOLE grade is not dependent on JUST the final product but on the process.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">* Writing and Justification questions! Oh my was I in for a surprise when I asked some "gimme" questions on a calculus exam (or so I thought). What it "gimme"-ed to me was the fact that even though the kids MAY be able to get the right # answer, they did not have a deep understanding of the meaning of things or how things fit together. Oy. I have started the slow process of adding such questions to their homework assignments. This I hope will further their deep(er) understanding.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">* Taking time to just enjoy the kids and all their goofiness. My 9th grade IED class during the last block of the day is basically a room full of little wriggly puppies that bounce around and have joy in their eyes and just want to be scratched behind the ears. I love them. They are a salve to my hurting heart. I make sure to keep a nice voice and humor when I redirect them for the 9,999th time each class to get back to work. They do get their work done, but I am so used to the 11th and 12th graders who are just so much more low energy and quiet. It's a nice mix of kids of all kinds in all my classes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">* Focusing on being present. With 6 preps to plan and 31 recommendations to write and yoga to teach and NHS duties and PLTW duties and after-school duties and spanish class homework and ...... well, you've been there. I just put my blinders on and for the most part just concentrate on this day or this block or this span of time. So far I haven't dropped too many balls. I'm also nicely distracted during the week. I also remember that in all the previous years, everything always seems to get done one way or the other, and I will not stress too much about it. Deep breathes and just doing my best.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">* Time for fun. I make sure I have things to look forward to outside of school. I am loving my Spanish class, and one day will be fluent and travel to all sorts of Spanish-speaking countries. My art class is awesome. I get to work on what I want and the time flies. I am also doing the Kayla Itsines exercise program and am on week 20 and LOVE it and am seeing some body changes. I also binge shop for books and see movies and LOVE all of the sudoku books by djape. Then there are the puzzle and game apps on my iPad. ...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The school year started out semi-great on August 24th. Sure I had 6 preps, but I had an awesome teacher friend that was teaching 2 of the preps with me (precalculus and Intro. to Engineering Design) and keeping me on track with planning and resources. Life was good. Then came Friday, 8/28/15. I was getting ready for my last class of the day and just starting them up, when our security officer came to my room to mention that I was needed in the office. Life has not been the same since. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was informed that my husband had died in a plane crash when he was practicing for the New York Air Show. He loved flying. He was great at flying. He was an awesome person. His plane broke while he was doing aerobatics. That weekend is still surreal. People came over off and on. A dear friend from DC came down to stay with me in TX for 9 days. His brother and family came from Canada as did my dad from California. I continued working that next week, so that I would have a break from the overwhelming nature of everything. Also, as teachers know, it is more work to be absent and make sub plans and copies and such than just to go in and dive in. Plus, did I mention the distractions and wonderful people I get to hang out with? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The time since then has been a blur and a balance of processing the horror and sadness and mixed emotions of how nice and compassionate and giving and loving everyone has been to me. And in addition, balancing school and doing right by my students. I'm so thankful I love my job and have people looking out for me and students being extra gentle and loving. I'm also thankful for friends that check in and let me ramble about the latest detail that I have to take care of to transfer things out of his name to my name.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I imagine it will be a long journey of getting used to this new reality. Maybe you never get used to it, you just live it. Andrew, I miss you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Via our internet math community, I learned that it's easier to leave one of the pages uncut (the pink sheet here), and then the students can place the matching cut up green and gold cards on the page. Before, I used to cut up all three, and then that took up too much space on the student tables. Thank you virtual PD friends for the great tip.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Another thing I like about this is that we didn't use all special angles. We also didn't indicate which was up or down on the pink sheet, so that stumped some kids and they had to think and justify the direction. Yay math. </span>Shireen Dadmehrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16282965851939089408noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10220498.post-71814469410761006442015-08-19T06:19:00.000-05:002015-08-19T06:19:07.997-05:00SOC Life Lessons<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I saw "Straight Outta Compton" last night as a pre-HS-kids-are-coming-monday-so-soak-up-the-end-of-summer treat, and I can say it's the best movie I've seen all <strike>summer </strike>year. </span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just because someone seems like they know what's good for you and how you should live your life, that doesn't mean they are right, even if they love you.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Friends are important. If they screw up and hurt you, be willing to get past it and keep them close.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">People in power that don't do the work are so tricky in finding ways to make money off of your hard work.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you have a passion and talent, pursue it in some form, not just to make money, but to live your life fully.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Movies are teaching tools and don't have to be preachy to teach(y). (like I said, I knew nothing going in, but I can discuss Dr. Dre and NWA and such with you now without a deer in the headlights look.)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Be willing to stick to your guns about what's right and wrong.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Even potty mouths (long live potty mouths) have something important to say.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The path you are on now is not necessarily your path for the rest of your life.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are many ways of changing the world.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This year, I want to make it more official (sheesh, I am really slow), and have them sign a contract at the beginning of the year. <a href="https://app.box.com/s/4oelzir19vrog6o0dd7ahfagxmmor7o1" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Here</span> </b></a>is what I came up with. Hopefully, there won't be any incidents.</span><br />
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Shireen Dadmehrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16282965851939089408noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10220498.post-17660285005369921482015-08-12T12:20:00.001-05:002015-08-12T12:20:11.790-05:00First Day Precalculus 2015<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And so it begins again. Next week we go back for teacher/school work, and on August 24th the little kidlets come and join us. I'm not doing so well on having an "Epic Last Week of Summer", or maybe I am just thinking about it the wrong way. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">* I tried to find matinees to see. Eh, seen all the movies I wanted to. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">* I thought about going out to lunch, but I have delicious recipes I tried at home (Hello Sizzling Vegetarian Fajita Salad ala Chevy's recipe, and thank you Google search for an Apple Chipotle Salad Dressing recipe). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">* I thought about shopping for back to school clothes, but I decided to alter 2 dresses I already have at home (again thank you Google for showing me the how-to's and benefits of lengthening a dress that has shrunk to "slutty proportions" in the dryer .... Who wants to see too much "older lady" leg?).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I'm at home, finishing (finished) my Python edX online course, doing my exercises (thank you, Kayla Itsines), and thinking of new first day activities. <span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://app.box.com/s/o7j63nqliaomu4ctin78effmaain1eoi" target="_blank"><b>Here</b></a></span>'s what I have come up with for Precalculus.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> My goal is not to have them come up with some definitive answer, but rather to think about the problem and discuss it with each other and see what they think they need to do and to know how to check for reasonableness and units. I'm expecting a lot of false starts (yay!) and miscalculations and restarts and discussion and thinking. Hopefully, it's intriguing enough to want to try things out. I know that I played around with it some.</span>Shireen Dadmehrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16282965851939089408noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10220498.post-30565002761825140682015-08-05T15:14:00.001-05:002015-08-05T15:56:33.468-05:00APCS Concept Map<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For the same reasons I specified in <span style="color: blue;"><b><a href="http://mathteachermambo.blogspot.com/2015/06/calculus-concept-map.html" target="_blank">this</a></b></span> post, I've created a concept map for my APCS class this coming year. I'm excited about teaching it again (after a year break), and hopefully, I can garner enough interest to have the class again in 2 years. We are a small HS, our kids are overbooked, and we all have to work for getting our elective classes to make each year.</span><br />
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Shireen Dadmehrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16282965851939089408noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10220498.post-50846542762059716212015-07-31T17:48:00.001-05:002015-07-31T17:49:28.218-05:00First Day Homework 2015<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've been reflecting on kindness this summer just for the world in general and for my classes more specifically. I remember when I've been feeling out of sorts and how that may come across as grumpy or "female doggy" or such, but what I really was was sad and on those occasions when someone was kind to me in some way that went a long way in making my day better. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We’ve all
been there and will probably be there again, and if this doesn’t describe you,
then I would sincerely like to know your secrets. I’m talking about that mean
and defeated little voice inside your head that has the tendency to take any
awesome accomplishment of another teacher or a perceived failing of yours and
then start a non-ending dialog about it to make you feel bad. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I don’t know
a long-term solution (if you do, PLEASE share), but I thought some guided
meditations and humor might help alleviate some of the stress of the moment.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><br /></span></u></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Situation:</u></b> <b><span style="color: red;">So-and-so had an
awesome idea/task/accomplishment (again!) via school/twitter/blog.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Close your
eyes and take a nice long deep breath and hold for a beat right before you
exhale.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Picture that
teacher being praised by everyone. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Take a deep
breath.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Maybe it’s
not too late to switch careers since you obviously are just taking up space. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Deep breath.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Your puppy
likes you.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">One last
deep breath and open your eyes.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Situation:</u></b> <b><span style="color: red;">So-and-so got on your
last nerve in class and you are now frazzled.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Close your
eyes and take a nice long deep breath and hold for a beat right before you
exhale.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The NERVE of
that kid. I KNOW they got up this morning wondering, “How can I be most
annoying today?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Take a deep
breath.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">They
succeeded. Kudos to them!</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Take a
deeper breath all the way down to your pinky toes.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">At least you
have no nerves left for anyone else to stomp on.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">One last
deep breath and open your eyes.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Situation:</u></b> <b><span style="color: red;">Your class just
bombed and you may have to reteach later.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Close your
eyes and take a nice long deep breath and hold for a beat right before you
exhale.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Holy Cow!
What were you thinking?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Take a deep
deep deep breath.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">On the plus
side, you make other teachers look good. There is that!</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Make sure
your deep breaths reach all the way to the tips of your fingers.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And you are
lining the pockets of future therapists of the traumatized children to rehash
this experience.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">One last
deep breath and open your eyes.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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Shireen Dadmehrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16282965851939089408noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10220498.post-64525983113650714762015-07-24T13:51:00.002-05:002015-07-24T13:51:48.774-05:00Math In Real Life<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I think that part of a life skills course should include the following: In any social situation you are in, find what percentage of the present people YOU are, and then make sure you are trying your hardest to only hog that percentage of the conversation without giving quiet space for others to participate if they so choose. Also, use your inside voice. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That is my summer blogging contribution. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have been to 2 workshops so far this summer, one for Digital Electronics and one for APCS. I am currently at the AP Annual Conference. They have all taught me things or enlightened me on things in one way or the other. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For example, I had students last year in various classes indicate that they felt stupid. That should never happen. I don't know that I did much more than reassure them that they were not stupid, but I didn't prove deeper to find out how to shift their perceptions. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This came up in my DE training. No one was stupid, but there were some teachers that were rushing through the curriculum and being very vocal and thus there were other teachers who were going at an appropriate pace but who felt stupid because of the inevitable comparison. I need to reflect on how to alleviate this situation when it happens in my classes. I also need to scaffold more or provide more scaffolding available for various learners and to make sure the kids take advantage of this. It is not a race. </span>Shireen Dadmehrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16282965851939089408noreply@blogger.com4