Summer is one of the best perks of being a teacher. I sleep in a bit, go for a walk, then tackle my to-do list at my own pace. I use the summer time to really think through activities I want to add to my curriculum, changes I want to make, books to read, etc. For accountability, I've decided to blog my list here rather than write it down in my handy, dandy, little notebook. :)
Books I plan to Read (or Re-Read):
- What's Math Got to Do with It - I actually bought this book for Kindle over the Memorial Day weekend. I'm really enjoying it!
- Never Work Harder than Your Students by Robyn Jackson
- How to give Effective Feedback by Susan Brookhart
- Accessible Mathematics by Steve Leinwand
Things I want to explore
- Better integration of the Chromebooks (1:1)
- Exploring Google Forms for Quick Formative Assessment
- Learn to use/integrate various online tools such as Plot.ly, Desmos, and StatKey in my classroom
- Create some Kahoot games to use for review activities
- Spend some time playing with Chrome apps that might be useful, such as a flashcard app, etc.
- Exploring Google Forms for Quick Formative Assessment
- Work on more Free Response writing - this is a weakness due to my class sizes... grading 100+ of these is a killer!
- Integrate whiteboarding activities
- Use mistakes and error analysis
- Expose students to the rubrics more
- Integrate whiteboarding activities
To be honest, I was pretty pleased with how things went in my classes this year, but I always have room for improvement. A lot of the things I've scribbled on my list are minor tweaks, but tweaks that I feel can make a huge impact in my classroom.
What's on your #SummerList?
