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To Do The Impossible: May 2012

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To Do The Impossible. Wednesday, May 9, 2012. Where I need to be. The image on the right was one I found on FaceBook. I think it tells a good bit about my life. Problem is, each time I find "where I needed to be" something happens and I have to move on. I've been taking more classes than my students, to learn to teach them better! My younger colleagues (one just got married) need jobs to support their families, older ones aren't ready to retire yet. Our special ed teacher, who isn't much younger than...

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To Do The Impossible: September 2013

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To Do The Impossible. Tuesday, September 24, 2013. This is my main goal as a teacher. Wake kids up from boredom, bring back their curiosity! Links to this post. Wednesday, September 11, 2013. I finally got THE job! It took two years after my credential to finally land the job I really wanted. The school is friendly and extremely supportive, and I think they genuinely are glad to have me as a colleague! We're talking of getting it heated for the winter, because we both love that daily dip! It's Not Easy B...

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To Do The Impossible: Remaining Awake During Revolutions

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To Do The Impossible. Wednesday, July 8, 2015. Remaining Awake During Revolutions. Class of 65: SEMPER PROVOCANTES. My class of 1965 reunion at Oberlin College was so inspiring, I've had a difficult time trying to figure how to write about it. Sort of like authors trying to write about their war experiences (Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse 5. Or the death of a close family member (Joan Dideon's Year of Magical Thinking. Emotions need time to settle. I at least became a folk singer, and folk singers, like ...

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To Do The Impossible: Modeling

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To Do The Impossible. Monday, April 27, 2015. This is a great video that tells about the strategy I'm trying to use in physics:. Notice how the modeling concept works through these phases:. He talks about how modeling goes from the concrete to abstraction. I once tutored a student in Physics who had been a straight A student until Physics Senior Year. It turned out his teacher showed them how to derive equation after equation to define physics concepts, but the only labs they did were after. I am finally...

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To Do The Impossible: It's been nearly a year since I wrote here

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To Do The Impossible. Tuesday, April 14, 2015. It's been nearly a year since I wrote here. I've thought of many posts I wanted to write, but I've been busy learning things, traveling and working. Can't do everything I guess. Learning how to use Vernier data. Preparing a white board. I am planning on taking either the follow-up course this summer. - on waves - or a first modeling course in chemistry. We had long wanted to take my grandchildren to the wonderful Danish island of Bornholm. But we also manage...

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To Do The Impossible: Reading

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To Do The Impossible. Sunday, May 11, 2014. And find acceleration - if they think about it. The thinking part doesn't come easily, though. I thought, however, that most could read. They read aloud somewhat fluently, so I thought they also knew what they were reading. Last fall I made the mistake of getting excited about Mastery Learning. I enthusiastically created a lot of scaffolded reading organizers for every 3-4 pages of Conceptual Physics. But many of the students did as they've. I still like the id...

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To Do The Impossible: June 2012

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To Do The Impossible. Tuesday, June 12, 2012. So now you can see that I really did graduate! A lot has happened since then, even though it was just a month ago. Our school finished the school year and then closed, so my students are looking for somewhere else to complete their high school education, and I am looking (again) for a new position as high school math or science teacher in an incredibly bad job market. (Just got 2 rejections. Off to a good start! Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).

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To Do The Impossible: Solving Difficult Problems

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To Do The Impossible. Tuesday, April 21, 2015. My students have been brought up in the math tradition of fast is best. I have been auditing a MOOC with Stanford Professor Keith Devlin, based on his book Introduction to Mathematical Thinking. Auditing" means, I'm not taking it in the allotted time, nor submitting assignments, but I'm at least watching all the video lectures.) In the very first week, he offered a video. Which I called How to Solve Difficult Problems. Draw a picture or diagram. I am finally...