I’m sending a WOO HOO to all the educators who attended the Tabor Rotation sessions at CAMT 2010 in San Antonio this past weekend! Your attendance and enthusiasm indicated your desire to more effectively implement small-group, differentiated instruction in mathematics. Many of you requested the Tabor Rotation Time Line for Elementary School.…
Thank you to all the CAMT participants who attended my morning session on Tabor Rotation–what a FANTASTIC audience!!! I’ll be posting the time line and other requested resources tonight.
I’m at CAMT all day Friday and will be available to answer questions, share ideas, or discuss professional development possibilities.…
One of the most frequently âhitâ blogs Iâve ever posted continues to be, Irregular! Impossible? Important! Area & Perimeter of Irregular Polygons. [https://glennatabor.com/2010/02/irregular-impossible-important-area-perimeter-of-irregular-polygons/]. My summer mission continues to be helping parents make creative linkages between mathematical concepts and every day activities. Our children are switching rooms and the oldest is rearranging her furniture next weekâŚso get ready for practical application of area and perimeter of regular and irregular polygonsâŚ
As I was doing more research on irregular polygons by reading several articles, watching videos, and reviewing some of my own activities, I thought about the parents who might want to help lay the foundation for their child to understand complex concepts such as polygons, irregular polygons, area, and perimeter.…
âMemorization is what we resort to when what we are learning makes no sense.â -Anonymous
âIt’s not what is poured into a student that counts, but what is planted.â -Linda Conway
Our 2nd grader came home with a worksheet a few weeks ago. The worksheet had approximately ten problems about multiplication.…
One of the challenges teachers face when differentiating instruction is how to answer the questions that will arise when you begin to do what is best for all students. Because every student is unique in their understanding of concepts, their level of independence, their interests, and their learning style, what you do for each one must be different.…
âYou have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.â -Friedrich Nietzsche
There are many, many different (and very long definitions) for the term Differentiating Instruction. The simplest one I’ve ever used is:
âDifferentiating instruction means regularly âshaking upâ whatâs going on in your classroom.â…
“The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man’s foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.” -Thomas Henry Huxley
Iâve been receiving a lot of questions about Tabor Rotation (a highly successful, research-based strategy for rigorously differentiating instruction in mathematics) and how to implement the essential components of T.R.…
âWe learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.â -Lloyd Alexander
âI never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.â -Albert Einstein
I was never more aware of how important hands-on instruction is until I taught concepts like decimals.…
âStress is when you wake up screaming and you realize you haven’t fallen asleep yet.â    -Anonymous
Welcome to March, April, and the 1st half of May. For most people in the United States, this means the coming of warmer weather and spring. For teachers and schools it is the season of state tests.…
âWhat we call differentiated is not a recipe for teaching. It is not an instructional strategy. It is not what a teacher does when he or she has time. It is a way of thinking about teaching and learning. It is a philosophy.â
-Carol Ann Tomlinson
Does this “square up” with your beliefs?…
