Today was my first day of giving lessons. It was supposed to be an easy day. My cooperating teacher asked me to jump right in giving 3 lessons (2 preps) to get my feet wet on my 3rd day at my 6-week practicum. Wednesday was scheduled to be a review day since the 3 classes [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Teaching’
May 31, 2008
Passed!
I’m not sure how or why, but I passed my Praxis II mathematics subject exams. There were two tests I took a little over a month ago, the mathematics content knowledge exam and the mathematics proofs, models, and problems exam. The former was a multiple choice exam, kind of like the math sections of the [...]
December 31, 2007
Passed!
I just got my scores for the ORELA. A passing score is 240. I got a 285 on Subtest I and a 295 on Subtest II. Nice! Now I just have to worry about the Praxis math exams. Yikes!
December 13, 2007
Vision of students
I’ve been sick with a cold for a couple of days. Since I don’t have a TV that means I’ve spent a lot of time wandering around various blogs and YouTube. I stumbled on this video, A Vision of Students Today, from Andrew Gelman’s statistical modeling blog.
The video was produced as [...]
December 7, 2007
Webquest: invasive species in Oregon
I did a webquest … my first one. Let me know what you think. I went ahead and made it before reading the rubric. Yup, I’m one of those guys who shoves aside the instructions before tinkering with a gadget. I targeted it to high schoolers but I think it could be done by middle [...]
