What does learning look like in your classroom? This is tough to answer, as instruction and student engagement morph from year to year and class to class. As a Science and STEM educator from Edmond, Oklahoma, and 24 years of classroom instruction under my belt, you’d think I’d have all the answers by now. Ha! […]
My Mathematical Journey to Guided Inquiry
As a high school math teacher, my overarching goal every year is to nurture a unique group of mathematically literate students. In today’s society, we are surrounded with numbers, statistics, and figures, and my goal as an educator is to create critical consumers of mathematics. In order to engage my students in this kind of […]
See me.
See me. This message stuck in my mind this Spring. I encountered it in a TV commercial showing the person behind the disease. I saw it on my commuter train in the poignant image of a refugee in need. I heard it in a powerful GID Open where people living with mental health issues told […]
Experimenting with Guided Inquiry in primary school
In this second post of my week in 52 weeks of Guided Inquiry I want to tell you about some of the observations I did during experimenting Guided Inquiry in Finland. As I wrote to you my background is in school libraries. In Kaarina city I had collaboration with two schools, where I connected with […]
