Choose your own… PD.
When we return from March Break, we tend to have a teacher-only day of PD and meetings. The admin had broken the faculty into 3 groups for two sessions and hadn’t planned anything for the third so I suggested I…
Tag Professional development
A one-off OneNote Notebook for a specific PD session
Each day as part of the 3-week Park City Mathematics Institute (PCMI), we have a 75 minute session called “Reflecting on Practice”. We take the 60-or-so participants and break out into three smaller rooms of about 20 each, further subdividing…
Teacher Professional Development and Microsoft OneNote
During the first three weeks of July, I have the amazing opportunity to work at the Park City Mathematics Institute. It is, without exaggeration, the best professional development opportunity for teachers of mathematics. Participants spend three weeks thinking deeply about…
Pretend you’re a teenager
A picture à propos of nothing, except perhaps the recognition of the dying days of a teacher’s summer vacation One of the major aspects of my job (and admittedly, one of my favourites) is finding ways to smooth out wrinkles…
Reflecting on Practice
Once we’re done the morning of math (with a brief coffee break) the teachers all get back together for an hour of math education pedagogy. Like the mathematics we cover, each year is something a little different. For example, in…