Embracing Life With Major Revisions
Teaching, (re)searching and living as a working draft.
Congrats! You’ve made it to the fourth and final right of the learner! Hooray! Hopefully with the other three RotL (Confused, Mistake, SpeakListenBeHeard), you’ve thought about how being confused, claiming a mistake (and revising your thinking), and knowing that you can speak, listen, and be heard are all RIGHTS that we need to promote in …
Continue reading "“Commas for decimals?” The Right to write, do, and represent math"
Let's just take a second to say: YOU'RE STILL HERE?! OMG! YOU HAVEN'T GOTTEN BORED WITH ME YET? Awwwww [hug emoji] You're too kind. Although this blog isn't really about whether like me or not, but it does make me feel honored that you're back to at least read about the RotL. But then again, …
Continue reading "“Can You Hear Me Now?”: The Right to Speak, Listen, and Be Heard."
Welcome back! Glad that you've decided to stick around for the Second Rights of the Learner: The Right to Claim a Mistake and Revise Your Thinking. This right is one that I've struggled with how to frame over the past year because my thinking has evolved and I'll briefly go into that here just for …
Hopefully you've already read the first two posts (Post1 Post2) about the Rights of the Learner because now we're unpacking each one. Think back to a moment when you were sitting in a math classroom and you thought to yourself "WHAT THE WHAT IS GOING ON???" The professor/instructor/tutor is saying or writing something on the …
Continue reading "“But I don’t get it”: The Right to Be Confused"
It was in my process of learning to teach elementary math methods that I also learned about the Rights of the Learner. Olga Torres, a well-known and respected bilingual elementary teacher and teacher educator in Arizona, wanted to create a space for her third grade students to feel safe when learning math, but she needed …
Today, I am going to briefly write about the Rights of the Learner (RotL) and how it relates to teaching and learning mathematics, specifically with respect to divergent formative assessments. But first, you might need to know a little more about how I came to learn about the RotL from a special teacher named Ms. …
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