teaching practices
Moderating external projects
Posted by David Wees on Mar 26, 2010
For the past three years, I've been an official IB Assistant Examiner. This means that each May (or November, but I usually don't sign up for the November sessions, too busy), I get sent a whole bunch of external exams or projects, and I have to grade the assignments. The money isn't great, it's a huge amount of work, but I see it as really valuable.
Do what your students want to do
Posted by David Wees on Jan 16, 2010
So something I've noticed recently is that my classes have been going really smoothly. Actually, every class now I have nearly no classroom management problems and every students is engaged for nearly the entire class on their work. I don't think I'm doing anything tricky, I'm just doing what the students want to do.
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Using videos in mathematics education
Posted by David Wees on Feb 25, 2009
I'm currently enrolled in my Masters in Educational Technology at the University of British Columbia, and it's a wonderful program, I highly recommend it. One of the things we are currently looking into is something called the Jasper series, which is essentially a series of videos intended to bring real applications of mathematics into the classroom.
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