My daughter Izzy started school four years ago and this event sent me on a reflective journey of my role as an educator. She has taught me a renewed focus on making sure all students know that they matter and that their unique personalities and stories are celebrated. In this moving talk, I make a call for all educators to not only see their curriculum, but to also see children for who they are, for if we don't then we miss a huge part of their education.
The most dangerous phrase in the English Language is that we have always done it this way, unfortunately our system has been the same since its inception. For the next five minutes I want to empower you to rethink, reflect and reevaluate the things that we have always just done.
This keynote focuses on understanding the ever-changing climate of the math wars. It brings in my thesis work around the impact of questions, how I plan for those and what it takes to make a balanced math program. Through my talk, it shows how moving our students from just Doing the math to DOERs we can create a more positive experience for student achievement.
Teaching is one of the hardest professions out there and I don't say this because I am a teacher but because it really is. However, teaching is so much more than what we see on the surface.
Our questions have power and the ways in which we ask them allow students to access mathematics or deny them experiences. For the next five minutes I talk about the power of my questions and how they help student become doers of mathematics.
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