Posted in Other Contributors on Sep 16th, 2008 1 Comment »
Back when I was a second-year college kid, Mr. M motivated me to pursue teaching in an urban classroom right outta college. “If he can take the dive, I can too” is what I thought. The following is a recent fb post he volunteered for the site. Thanks Mr. M!
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Today my fourth graders and I [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 16th, 2008 1 Comment »
i was almost guilty of being like the teacher Mr.G blogged about in his last post, but i stopped myself.
a majority of my students were bombing their math diagnostics on fundamentals (adding, subtraction, multiplication, division) the first two weeks of class, despite being promoted from algebra into geometry. i looked at their old grades and [...]
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