
In the
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A practitioner's perspective on math, education & change.
What have we learned?
Most of us will be going back to in-person learning in the fall, but we can’t go back to exactly how things were before the pandemic started. What are these lessons we have learned, and how do we use them when we see our students in person again?
Redesign Doesn’t Happen in a Vacuum
Redesign always takes longer and is more involved than we first expect it to be. With many unforeseen components, those simple suggestions to “improve a course” or “enhance a placement policy” don’t stop there. Instead, they’re simply starting points. In this post, I give you practical information on the role of buy-ins, funding, and other impacted areas that will help you navigate your own redesign.
April 2021 Recap
I know that you’re giving everything you can to your schools right now, leaving very little time to read through emails and blogs. For Almy Education’s last April blog post, I’ve recapped all of our April communications (newsletters, blogs, emails, etc.), all in one centralized location.
March 2021 Recap
I know that you’re giving everything you can to your schools right now, leaving very little time to read through emails and blogs. For Almy Education’s last March blog post, I’ve recapped all of our March communications (newsletters, blogs, emails, etc.), all in one centralized location.
Project-based learning
In this blog, we explore some of the benefits of engaging students in PBL and provide practical advice for how to implement PBL successfully. We will focus on PBL in relation to mathematics teaching and learning and address transitional math.
Feedback for Learning
Formative assessments take many different forms: exit tickets, quizzes, rough drafts of written assignments, prototypes for projects, and more. Whenever you have evidence of students learning, it can be used as a formative assessment. Even the summative test results can be used to see areas of strengths and weaknesses to inform the teaching of future classes.
February 2021 Recap
I know that you’re giving everything you can to your schools right now, leaving very little time to read through emails and blogs. For Almy Education’s last February blog post, I’ve recapped all of our February communications (newsletters, blogs, emails, etc.), all in one centralized location.
Developmental Math and Equity
Developmental math in its traditional form poorly serves students who need it the most. These are the students who have the greatest challenges to overcome, often through circumstances beyond their control. For as much as has been done in this arena, there are still so many issues with developmental math. And those problems are only worse when we drill down in the data and disaggregate it.
Futures of Education
As we prepare for schools to reopen in the near future, we need to ask if we truly want to go back to exactly how things were before the pandemic started. We have an opportunity to make changes for the better for our whole nation. What lessons have we learned and what do we want our educational system to look like?
Motivating Students to Learn
We know too well that if students are not engaged, they will not learn. In this blog post we discuss goal orientation; ego-involved, task-completion, and learning, and how this impacts student success.