Inner City High School Math Teacher

Its been a long time coming.

2011-01-24T19:25:00.001-06:00

Although I haven't posted here in a long long time. I plan to change that. I will be doing video blogs (at the beginning and end of the school day) and posting them up weekly.

In a perfect world ...

2009-08-16T14:48:00.002-05:00

I just have to get this out before the school year starts.

Feel free to add on to this list.

In a perfect world:

1. All teachers are motivated and serious about getting their students to learn.
2. The administration is there to support the teachers by making sure that all the teaching needs are met.
3. The parents are 100% involved in supporting their children's academic learning.
4. Whats best for the students' learning is not a subjective phrase that administrators use to throw a last minute game mandate on you and expect you to implement it perfectly.
5. Students scoff at the idea that teachers are the enemy.
6. Students understand that grades aren't given by the teacher, but merely assigned based on the level of (or lack thereof) competence the students demonstrate on the assignment.

Work backwards to find a solution

2009-07-04T21:53:00.002-05:00

End result: All of my students learn all of the content the district wants them to learn for the particular class they are assigned to.

Given: Students with varying motivation, math deficits, and scholarly habits.

So how do I get the end result?

My idea:

Students motivated to learn <---- Topics/Projects/Assignments that are interesting. <----- Teacher incorporates students interests into daily classroom lessons and activities. <------Teacher researches students and finds out about their interests.

I'm starting over

2009-07-01T22:37:00.003-05:00

After looking at the titles of my posts, I realized that there was no consistency to the message that I want to express with this blog. That led me to further define and simplify the purpose of doing this blog. I don't want it to be a blog of complaints, frustrations, anger and woe is me. I want it to be a resource for teachers like me who are looking to see what other teachers are doing successfully in their classrooms. So I depend on you to help me with that. What do you want to hear about? What do you want to see? Disclaimer: What is posted here won't necessarily come from me (but I will give credit where credit is due.)