This is a post to support the Let’em Teach! Small Group Teaching Toward Desired Practices at the fall conference of the Mississippi Council of Teachers of Mathematics in Hattiesburg, MS. Link to the Materials Folder (Including Slides!) Amidon, J. (October, 2024). Let’em Teach! Small Group Teaching Toward Desired Practices. Session at the Mississippi Council of Teachers Read more…
Learning to teach better with Dr. Bethany LaValley, Coordinator of Professional Development at the Center for Mathematics and Science Education at the University of Mississippi, and Dr. Alice Steimle, Director of the Center for Mathematics and Science Education, as we discuss their new article in School Science and Mathematics, From Read more…
Learning to teach better with Joey Bates as we reflect on his recent Christmas message from the Thrill of Hope sermon series at The Orchard Oxford. Enjoy! Click here to subscribe via your favorite podcast provider. Links The Orchard Oxford Church in Oxford, MS. The Bible Project
Click here to access office hours (through Google Meet) for portfolio development that I am offering all of The University of Mississippi School of Education teacher candidates on Fridays from 10AM – 11AM, starting Friday, April 3rd, 2020. If you are not at The University of Mississippi or have a Read more…
How do we respond through our teaching during COVID-19? In episode 19 of the Amidon Planet Podcast, Tom Andres talks about how circumstances can determine your attitude…if you let it. The basic message, and one that we gleaned from the book Fish!, is we get to choose our attitude and Read more…
Home What does it mean to be home? Is it a place? I don’t think so. People move all the time. It has to be the connection of people located in a place, or as Edward Sharp & the Magnetic Zeroes state, “Home is wherever I’m with you.” That all Read more…
The Badger Boys State family lost a great one this past week. Fred Berns died on Wednesday, October 25, 2017. Badger Boys State is a week long program put on by the American Legion where rising seniors in high school from all over Wisconsin descend on Ripon, WI to create Read more…
100 is a big deal In kindergarten they celebrate the 100th day of school like Christmas. It is a big deal to get to that third digit. Same goes for Dr. Sam Otten (@ottensam) releasing 100 episodes of the Math Ed Podcast. It is a big deal. The Math Ed Read more…
I was worried. How would they handle the gravity of the task before them… As I gazed into the eyes of the 20 kindergarteners in front of me, I played for them the message on my phone. They grinned in excitement as the message played and the math lesson began. Read more…
I saved the day. The math problem had a small detail in it that if my students were not paying attention, it would mess up their work. So I darted around the room and pointed out the detail at the precise moment each group encountered it. No one got confused. Read more…