Ok, so want to hear something weird about this school year. \u00a0I’ve been going to school for every day that wasn’t a holiday since the week I got back from my honeymoon (August 15th). \u00a0That means I’ve been working for a month when half of that was supposed to be vacation. \u00a0For many of the past two weeks of the school year, I haven’t even gotten home before 7, some days I’ve gotten home at 10, and one day after helping my wife’s school we got home at 12:30. \u00a0The weirdest thing about that? \u00a0I’ve only taught two (two!) classes so far this year. \u00a0 I have developed an acumen of sorts for putting spreadsheets together, and using those spreadsheets to upload schedules. \u00a0Our school has wildly unique schedules for each student, so I have been helping out a lot with that. \u00a0Since our school is also running a rolling admissions situation, they are going to let in a group on October 1st, and I am going to pick up my teaching load with that group.<\/p>\n
Since this year started, it’s been pretty dark and lonely for me and my spreadsheets, and I don’t think I should wait for it to end so that I can get back to my passions. \u00a0For the next two weeks I decided to pick up one class, to help with some of the school overflow so now I can talk about teaching and learning!<\/p>\n
This week I am teaching problem solving for my “Mathematical Thinking” class. \u00a0I aim to work on the curriculum that I did last fall. \u00a0One thing I am surely going to do is work in more estimation. One question I had today was “How many flourescent light bulbs are there in the school?” \u00a0Last friday I asked “If I turned 33 on Sept 1st, when will I be 1\/3 of century old?” \u00a0I like doing the big problems, but I think I am going to work on having a big discussion as a group about them.<\/p>\n
Something. \u00a0I’m going to try to emerge from my excel tabs and write something. \u00a0Baby steps.<\/p>\n
This week I’m wondering what is the thing I’m missing. \u00a0I always watch basketball players and think “If you just get a 3-point shot” or “If you just get a left-handed layup”, as if a couple hours in the gym would make them an all-star. \u00a0Assuming that it’s more or less true, what’s the thing that I’m missing? \u00a0I think it’s having productive, amazing, Magdalene-Lampert-esque classroom discussions, but I don’t know exactly how to get into the “gym” and work on that.<\/p>\n
Read books? \u00a0Moderate other people’s subway conversations? \u00a0Do Squats?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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