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A blog about teaching and learning in a maths classroom.

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.

Posted in • MathsClass • Reflection | Short URL: http://mths.co/2089

Comments

Nordin Zuber on  14 January 11  at  07:30 AM #
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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Simon Job on  14 January 11  at  11:57 PM #
I have blogged about lessons that don't work. e.g. [url=http://mathsclass.net/comments/teaching-equations-or-not]http://mathsclass.net/comments/teaching-equations-or-not[/url] 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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Simon Job — eleventh year of teaching maths in a public high school in Western Sydney, Australia.
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