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.…
âI’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.â – Maya Angelou
An effectively differentiated lesson clearly indicates that the teacher has anticipated and planned for student diversity (Tomlinson, 1999).…
âWe would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.â -Vince Lombardi
âGive me a lever long enough and a prop strong enough. I can single-handedly move the world.â -Archimedes
I was working with several students helping them develop greater number sense and algebraic thinking.…
âTrue scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.â -James Russell Lowell
Do any of you remember being thrilled about learning how to simplify fractions? I memorized some rules for how to do it and used these rules to complete worksheets filled with fractions.…
âCreative thinking may mean simply the realization that there’s no particular virtue in doing things the way they always have been done.â -Rudolf Flesch
Todayâs Inspiration Blog is also an Activity Blog. If you continue reading youâll understand whyâŚ
Friday was an early release day for all three of my children, so I decided to make Glenna Tabor, educational consultant, take the day off.…
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…
“As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school. ” -Cokie Roberts
âIt is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.â -Edgar Watson Howe
I woke up this morning and looked at the stuffed animal my parents brought back from Germany a few years ago.…
âI have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.â -Leonardo da Vinci
A group of teachers once told me that using small groups in mathematics didnât meet the needs of all their students.…
âMan must shape his tools lest they shape him.â    -Arthur Miller
âAn architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.â    -Frank Lloyd Wright
Many of you have counted down the days till you received a much deserved spring break.…
