Author Archives: @dwyerteacher

I have just finished Out of our Minds: Learning to be Creative by Sir Ken Robinson.  This is the third time I have read this book, but the first time I have read the second edition.  It is hard to consider this … Continue reading →

This project came together as a way to tie up our learning at the end of our current unit.  I wanted the students to give a presentation to the class about one geographical region of Japan, and what makes it … Continue reading →

I came into school, as I always do on a Monday morning, filled with an odd mixture of tiredness and excitement.  Outside of my classroom window, I spotted the class garden.  Horror!  Shock!  Despair!  The class corn was gone.  All … Continue reading →

So, I’ve got this great unit planned.  I thought of an engaging provocation to hook the learners.  It worked.  They are loving it and they are following every step of the way.  It is engaging, fun, and full of opportunities … Continue reading →

This is an absolutely wonderful project that is screaming out for international collaboration.  Think of it like a chain letter, but math related. @Namastececi send out a call on Twitter to see if anybody would like to be the recipient of a teapot … Continue reading →

ASIDE: In this post, I am trying to hash out an idea in my head, and explain something that I do that is not exactly very easy to explain.  The explanation is rough, and it is a work in progress. … Continue reading →

At the same time I have both a feeling of incredible freedom and creativity, and frustration with the structure of the units I teach.  On the one hand, the frustration comes from the focus of the units central idea, inquiry … Continue reading →

I am obsessed with shapes (this is my third post on this blog and each one of them have been about shapes!), but not the shapes normally presented in traditional euclidian geometry. I am interested in the shapes of ideas, … Continue reading →

It is so interesting where ideas come from, and how a class can dramatically shift from one activity to the next.  Being fluid and organic, and accepting that ideas are built on more ideas (and being flexible enough to evolve … Continue reading →