by Leslee Addington | Jan 9, 2019 | 9/10th Grade, Authenticity Strands, Mathematics, Personal Authenticity, Solutions
Background: I have been teaching Geometry for a few years now and LOVE teaching proofs. Students are asked to identify appropriate evidence that supports a claim, use logic and deductive reasoning, construct accurate mathematical representations, use...
by Daniel August | Jan 9, 2019 | 11/12th Grade, Mathematics, Personal Authenticity, Solutions
by Monique Velazquez | Jan 9, 2019 | 9/10th Grade, Authenticity to the Discipline, Social Studies, Solutions
Thinking Like a Historian! As per my first blog post, I grappled with the question How might we teach the skills and strategies needed to analyze materials and think like a historian? Originally when I began my journey with my problem of...
by Maurice Blackmon | Jan 9, 2019 | 11/12th Grade, 9/10th Grade, Personal Authenticity, Social Studies, Solutions
The idea of student engagement is one that has always challenged me. On one hand, I know exactly what it means because I’ve spent more time in my life as a student than as anything else, it seems. I’ve experienced the excitement of sitting in classrooms...
by Pearl Ohm | Jan 8, 2019 | 11/12th Grade, Authenticity to the Discipline, Mathematics, Solutions
In my PreCalculus class this semester, I was excited to create opportunities for my kids to be mathematicians and pose their own questions, making their own conjectures and discoveries, and also be creatively frustrated. I speak about my problem of practice in...
by Sarah Ahmed | Jan 8, 2019 | 11/12th Grade, Authenticity to the Discipline, Mathematics, Solutions
This past semester has been an emotionally grueling one. After my initial foray into this topic in my first blog post (exploring the balance of skilled practice with true mathematical inquiry, pursuing authenticity of the discipline), I began to see just what I...