I’ve been teaching a credit recovery high school geometry course for the past three summers. This summer, the program was offered virtually, with half as much in-class time as we’ve had in the past (appropriately so). After hearing from so many students that they were in summer school with us because a) they didn’t turnContinue reading “High school rehumanizing mathematics project, Take 1”
Category Archives: assessment
Subject: Ideas for alternative forms of assessment
The following is an email I sent to my math department on May 25, 2020 with a few edits in [] for clarity and to preserve anonymity. Dear Math Colleagues, I write this email as a fellow math teacher, not necessarily as a facilitator of the Geometry CPT [common planning time team], or any otherContinue reading “Subject: Ideas for alternative forms of assessment”
On the absurdity of mandating ‘diagnostic tests’ at the end of a COVID-19 interrupted school year
We received an email from our principal on the Friday before Memorial Day weekend, saying that teachers are expected to give “year-end diagnostic tests in lieu of exams” to start in less than 14 school days. No expectation for any tests or exams during our two months of emergency distance learning had been communicated priorContinue reading “On the absurdity of mandating ‘diagnostic tests’ at the end of a COVID-19 interrupted school year”
Dismantling Mathematics 