MathsClass

A blog about teaching and learning in a maths classroom.

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4 years on

Friday, 14 January 2011 | 2 Comments

Four years ago today, the first post on this blog was published.

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MathsClass brings so many good things to my teaching:

  • the ability to reflect and share
  • meeting so many great teachers across subjects and across the world (Twitter aids that as well)
  • pushing myself to continually improve

If you’ve been a teacher for a while, I would encourage you to start blogging (or an easier first step, join Twitter, NSW DET teacher could join Yammer – in particular Axiom) – your wisdom and knowledge is valuable and it’s great to share and discuss with others.

If you’re a new teacher, interacting online provides so many opportunities to reflect and learn. Whilst writing a post for a blog sounds like extra work, I find that reflecting via this blog gives me a means of critically examining how an activity went and improving it for next time.

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Gravatar for Nordin ZuberNordin Zuber on  14 January 11  at  06:30 PM #

Happy birthday! Thanks for this amazing resource. While you are reflecting on reflecting – could you add a few comments about where you see the line between public and private reflection? So for example : if you have lessons that don’t work – are you comfortable blogging about them here?

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Gravatar for Simon JobSimon Job on  15 January 11  at  10:57 AM #

I have blogged about lessons that don’t work. e.g. http://mathsclass.net/comments/teaching-equations-or-not

I would keep any comments about the classroom generic and focus on the activity and student responses never on student’s themselves.

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