by Matt Vaudrey | Feb 6, 2017 | Classroom Management, Education |
Dear Claire, This year marks my 10th in education. While the path of an educator’s career is murky and uncertain, I feel quite content with what I’ve accomplished in ten years. Rather than listing the recent wins (see the class Twitter feed and mine for...
by Matt Vaudrey | Nov 28, 2016 | Education, Hope |
Real talk: Autumn has been crazy in the Vaudrey household. Between prepping for CMC-South, traveling the country to talk about math education, and moving my family across town, this li’l blog has been neglected. The next several posts in the #DearClaire series...
by Matt Vaudrey | Oct 7, 2016 | Classroom Management, Education, Teacher Improvement |
Dear Claire, You and I haven’t ever talked about the use of the Teacher Report Card as a way to get feedback from students, but lemme tell ya; it’s one of my favorite things I do. Every students’ face lit up when I mentioned—before giving them the...
by Matt Vaudrey | Oct 1, 2016 | Classroom Management, Teaching |
Dear Claire, Late last week, I tweeted this: Today’s teaching revelation: The gap between theory and practice is at least three times as wide as I thought that it was. — Matt Vaudrey (@MrVaudrey) September 22, 2016 The tweet itself got a couple thousand views...
by Matt Vaudrey | Sep 26, 2016 | Classroom Management, Teaching |
Dear Claire, I drafted this post, but never published it last week. This was a week of transitions, one in which I was very thankful for this blog, twitter, and my wife as a sounding board. On Monday, the air-conditioning in room 908 still wasn’t fixed, and the...
