30 minute classes are short, but felt like just about the right length for a first day. For my math studies courses which are smaller and mostly grade 11 students, I tried to learn everyone’s names and got them straight into the math. I made use of the 4Es document and basically combined all theContinue reading “First Day of School Report”
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First Day of School
It’s no secret that my teaching has been heavily influenced by what I’ve learned through Harvard’s Project Zero and a lot of the thinking I’ve done about how students think and learn. More and more I’ve come to regard the first day of class as setting the tone. The first day is an indicator ofContinue reading “First Day of School”