Tag: reflection

  • Starting fresh after the Ph.D.

    This is kind of odd to write, but I think I need to. I finished my dissertation, and defended in April. That was four to five months ago! I really have done nothing on this blog. I was stressed, and had my head down and working hard on the dissertation and defense. Then, in August,…

  • Thank you #MTBoS & #Iteachmath community

    Friday night in class, I gave out an assignment to my preservice teachers (PST) entitled “Engaging the Mathematics Community.” Here it is in it’s entirety: Engaging the Mathematics Community;  Miscellaneous Assignment 2: 10 points The goal of this assignment is to encourage you to engage with the existing larger mathematics education community. You must do…

  • Is math like ice cream?

    To my last post, “No more broccoli ice cream” David Griswold challenged me with a very serious and thoughtful reply. The phrase, “No more broccoli ice cream” came from this meme that I saved. I collect these memes, just because the provide interesting fodder for conversations about math in class. So who is Denise Gaskins?…

  • Good things

    The last #BlAugust post this year, and I wanted to end on some good things. Monday was a banner day for me, full of firsts. I hit “Finalize” on my very first ever NSF grant. It is a Robert Noyce Scholarship grant that, if we get it, would be a $1.1 million dollar grant for…

  • A little nervous today

    One of the last #BlAugust posts this year. Not the last post this year for sure, however. Today is kind of a big day. I have to submit a NSF grant proposal today. That is a big deal. So much work and effort goes into this proposal, and then the chances of getting it are…

  • Knowing & Learning: setting the tone

    Continuing on the #BlAugust train! Yay. To help set the stage for the Big Questions of Knowing and Learning, I will be using the results from this survey. I asked on Twitter for teachers to take it, and it will be required for my learners to take it. (Same questions, but a different set of…

  • Teachers work in fear?

    Another #BlAugust post, but this is an fired up post. I was going to blog about my Knowing and Learning preparation today, but a comment from a college learner in my program made me more and more upset as I thought about it. The learner (I redacted the name to protect them) said, “I was just…

  • Doing what you love means no more impostor syndrome

    #BlAugust Continues strong! Creating a habit of writing is something I need to work on both professionally and personally, so this challenge is definitely useful to me. Thank you Shelli! Wow, I have earned my second Star of the Week from Meg Craig! Awesome! As I was getting ready this morning, I had a thought.…

  • The benefits of a handshake

    Another #BlAugust post! Doing great and creating habits here. This morning I was walking to the the office across campus, I saw a person standing outside a building looking around. He looked kind of lost, which is not unusual on campus this time of year, so I asked if I could help him. He was…

  • Questioning in a Theory class

    Hitting number 5 for #BlAugust on the 5th of August. Excellent. So far so good! Transitioning from teaching mathematics to teaching theory is difficult. Not because of the content, that is just reading and understanding what I read. No, it is difficult because of how I define teaching. Telling isn’t teaching. I decided a long…