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dy/av : 007 : preview

By Dan Meyer • July 29, 2008 • 7 Comments

If this arrow isn’t in the new math teacher’s quiver, it oughtta be.

How do you answer the question: when will we use [x] in real life?, where [x] is some abstract concept or, as in my case, the 97% of math that doesn’t explicitly involve “shapes.” I have witnessed and, myself, promoted answers snarky and serious, long and short. You oughtta have something.

Motivating Question

When will we use [y] in real life?, where [y] is the abstract corners of the course you teach?

Optional Viewing

Mount Hermon Summer Staff Slideshow 2007, a video I made last summer which is also the fulcrum on which I’ll balance my answer.

dy/av : 006 : carver’s classroom management

By Dan Meyer • July 23, 2008 • 28 Comments

dy/av : 006 : carver’s classroom management from Dan Meyer on Vimeo.

Tags

police, ethic of care, classroom management, the wire, ellis carver

iPod Edition

dy/av : 006 : carver’s classroom management (640 x 480)

References

Previous Episodes

dy/av : 005 : how i work
dy/av : 004 : thank you, teaching
dy/av : 003 : on the office
dy/av : 002 : the next-gen lecturer
dy/av : 001 : earn the medium

dy/av : 006 : preview

By Dan Meyer • July 22, 2008 • 10 Comments

Yet another perspective on this elephant I call classroom management. Yet another angle on teaching through the tilt-shift lens of television. This time we have a show which deals with, um, police officers in, um, Baltimore, the title of which I don’t want to spoil. So.

Motivating Questions

How does a policeman’s ethic of care mirror that of the classroom teacher?

Recommended Reading

The Truest Thing I’ve Ever Watched Or Written. Spoiler alert, etc.

BTW: I’m on a beach called Playa Grande right now, good and married, so I invited Chris Craft, whose experience as a police officer is far from irrelevant here, aboard to handle commentary. Show him a good time.

dy/av : 005 : how i work

By Dan Meyer • July 16, 2008 • 26 Comments

dy/av : 005 : how i work from Dan Meyer on Vimeo.

Tags

how i work, to do list, time management, decontamination

iPod Edition

dy/av : 005 : how i work (640 x 480)

References

my to-do list template.

Previous Episodes

dy/av : 004 : thank you, teaching
dy/av : 003 : on the office
dy/av : 002 : the next-gen lecturer
dy/av : 001 : earn the medium

dy/av : 005 : preview

By Dan Meyer • July 15, 2008 • 2 Comments

I like to work and that’s fine. I appreciate that in Christian history, in Eden, before things went pearshaped, when everything was still perfect, people worked.

Lately I enjoy a workflow which lets me breeze through sixteen tasks in the same time it’d take my 20-yo self to check his e-mail. I like that. I like being the guy who gets done what he says he’ll get done and fast. I like that about you too.

Fittingly, one of the most fascinating articles I’ve read in the last five years is Fortune’s How I Work series, which prompts executives from Google to Starbucks to describe their work habits.

Tomorrow’s episode is my rejected submission. Not for nothing, it’s also the longest I’ve worked on any episode so far.