I am a math teacher in a private school.
I believe:
- That a few big ideas per course is enough.
- Questions work better than statements.
- The structure of a course, department, division, or school needs to be founded on a few big ideas.
- The few big ideas lead to many decisions. Refer to them often.
- Complexity exists where those big ideas conflict.
- When you learn, grow, change, mature, and think your big ideas can alter or be changed wholesale.
- When a big idea changes it should have a huge ripple effect that dramatically alters what you do.
There are so many ideas, blogs, sites, thoughts, suggestions about improving education.
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My interests and desires for improvement are largely dependent upon my current school, and to a lesser extent the other schools I have taught at. I feel some of my big ideas shifting.
I want to improve:
To do this, I hope to look at these topics from a greater perspective and incorporate some of the many ideas, thoughts and suggestions to improve myself and my school.
I appreciate any suggestions and feedback.
I want to improve:
- The cohesiveness between projects and problems in my classes.
- My classroom culture.
- The engagement of my students and the richness of the problems we work on.
- Intentional efforts to create a self-sustaining faculty culture starting with informal and formal collaboration.
- New teacher orientation and mentoring.
To do this, I hope to look at these topics from a greater perspective and incorporate some of the many ideas, thoughts and suggestions to improve myself and my school.
I appreciate any suggestions and feedback.