Wednesday, my district opened up a personalized professional development system, and I've been working through it. Shockingly, I'm a bit competitive and have been enjoying proving what I know, and digging in to learn what I don't. It made me realize that I haven't been working to help my students learn as well as I could. I've let myself slide into old habits that haven't been as beneficial to me & my students. I struggled a lot with station rotation last year, and decided to go back to a more traditional format, at least for a bit while I've been learning how to use the curriculum from Illustrative Mathematics . But, I haven't been using best practices. I'm a bit bored and so are the kids. I've got kids who are struggling and kids who are way above grade level, and I'm struggling myself to meet them all where they are while sticking to the pacing. So, now after working through the Blended Learning Module, I've got a lot of though...
"Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas." - Albert Einstein