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Monthly Archives: October 2006

Happy Halloween

Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Trick? Or Treat .

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Winners and Losers

Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Yesterday was report card day, and I passed them out at 3:00. I almost handed them out earlier, with the envelopes opened, because I didn’t want to lick them all. But then I knew they’d start to compare, and there’d be all sorts of celebrating and hurt feelings and questons. So I taped the envelopes [...]

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Pattern Recognition

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Yesterday I told the kids that we were going to do math without the math book, and that I’d teach them to count to one. I’ve been Counting to One with fourth graders for a few years now, but I put a new spin on it this year. One of the teachers I work with [...]

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Friends

Sunday, October 22, 2006

Prompted by Sarah and Marco’s comments on my last post: Irony and contradiction are endlessly fascinating to me. My focus in life – since I was a little kid, even, is always first on my subjective response to whatever experience I happen to be having. I’ve made a practice of being transparent on the blog, [...]

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alt.doug

Sunday, October 22, 2006

This is an insight into my personality that was sparked by some recent noise that’s come up. It’s about a character flaw of mine that gets an occasional workout. People say that blogging puts them in touch with others and connects them to information about God knows what, all over the planet…. Well, OK. But [...]

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Wharf Rats

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

I once lived in a rental house in a fishing town on the Oregon coast. It was a cozy place, spacious, and warm. It was a fine place to be. My feelings about it changed one night, though, when a member of the household found a rat in the toilet. After the screaming stopped, and [...]

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Constructivism in Practice

Friday, October 6, 2006

Brad, over at HUNBlog posted My Two Cents on Constructivism, and he asked, I don’t know the extent to which constructivism can work for math education as an isolated strategy. Can it be useful in math education to some extent. Probably. Is it useful in language arts? Probably, but just how and to what degree [...]

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