by Matt Vaudrey | Nov 21, 2014 | Teaching |
Read all the way to the end. This is a short post. Demo Day Mr. Guiles is a fantastic teacher at Lone Hill Middle School. While he and I are fairly matched on our interest in EdTech, we each have our own strongholds of knowledge. So it’s simultaneously relaxing...
by Matt Vaudrey | Nov 18, 2014 | Coaching, Education, Teaching |
This tweet caught my eye last week. @mr_stadel @robertkaplinsky @Jstevens009 @MrVaudrey do you guys think you would be more effective coaches if you taught one period a day? — Tim McCaffrey (@timsmccaffrey) November 14, 2014 Three things on that. 1.) I’d be a...
by Matt Vaudrey | Sep 25, 2014 | Ed Tech, Education, Hope, Teacher Improvement, Teaching |
Today, I witnessed an excellent old-school lesson. The teacher was engaging, funny, and had play-doh on the desks with toothpicks to demonstrate angle relationships to the sophomore Geometry students. Students inserted a Cloze Notes-Style handout into their plastic...
by Matt Vaudrey | Feb 15, 2014 | Actual Math, Teaching |
It appears that Fawn and I did this lesson on the same day… again. We teach over 100 miles from each other, but we appear to have some type of ESP that only affects the snarky. Anyway. Twice in the last three months, I have told a room full of teachers and...
by Matt Vaudrey | Jan 18, 2014 | Teaching |
Attention, Administrators: I have some news. The term “Digital Native”, while creative, isn’t an accurate representation of young students. Because I liked being included as a “Digital Immigrant” (an equally cute term), I bought into the...
by Matt Vaudrey | Jan 12, 2014 | Teaching |
It’s most often tenured teachers who have the most surprised reaction when we talk about this. It often starts when our conversations steers close to the issue, and I drop this bomb. “I’d happily give up Tenure for Merit Pay.” Eyes widen. Jaws...
