One of the best investments teachers can make during the first week of school is to touch base with the parent(s) of each child in the class. Call home in the late afternoon, early evening, or over the weekend. Tell parents that you are calling everyone in the class. Introduce yourself as your child’s teacher and add that you are delighted to have their child in your class. When you...
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Karen Cator, U. S. Department of Education Office of Educational Technology, presented a powerful keynote address at yesterday’s NCSM Leadership in Mathematics conference. She believes “Now is the Time” to move toward more digital media and create new learning opportunities for all students. “We need to ratchet up the opportunity to learn.”
She...
Posted by Lauri Susi on Apr. 12, 2011
In the previous post I discussed how Steve Leinwand’s book; Accessible Mathematics: Ten Instructional Shifts That Raise Student Achievement could be making a difference in the math performance of students at a middle school I visited. I provided examples of the first 5 Instructional shifts. Since students were...
Posted by Lauri Susi on Mar. 10, 2011
John Wooden, the legendary UCLA basketball coach often said, “Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.” In mathematics education we can say “failing to prepare teachers is preparing for the failure of our students.” Last week’s PISA results once again show how students in...
Posted by Lauri Susi on Dec. 16, 2010
