Well, the end of the first week of school. I successfully remembered almost all my kids' names after 4 days, which is something of an accomplishment for me. I'm not the best with names.
I think the first week is all about getting your class to buy in to how you're going to teach. Convincing them, for example, that reviewing things that seem easy in the first week or two is laying groundwork for later, and shouldn't be taken as a sign that future work will be easy.
These classes seem to have bought in pretty well, and I haven't found any really annoying kids yet, so this might be a fairly good year.
Boring, boring post. But then, school dominates my year from September to May, so I suppose it might also dominate my blog. I promise that things will be more interesting later in the year as we get closer to that little change in my life that I've been previewing now and then. You know...the minor matter of adopting a baby.
Sounds like some of my teachers ... in that the first week was just impossibly easy. But it is starting to pay off :-) The first week was all basic set theory in math, but now we are actually using to to, for example, construct the set of natural numbers.
But it makes me wonder, why the hell is set theory taught in elementry school? It was one of the most usless mathematical concepts we learned back then. If it takes until now, freshman year of college, for it to become useful, why not skip it until then?
But, all the same, good luck with classes, and good luck with that baby thing. Always a pleasure to read your writing.
Posted by: Foxy | September 10, 2006 at 12:15 PM
I've taken to throwing in a few things from outside the curriculum in the first few days, to wow them and to keep them on their toes. Most of this is easy, but even now they learn they need t watch out.
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