Matt Schaeffer

I've been trying to put into words the shift I've been trying to make in my teaching. This one sums it up perfectly.

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New school year is into full swing, so most of this is now several days old, but I wanted to show off some of the great things my students have been doing already. One of the things I knew I wanted to start with this year was some Math Therapy (@themathguru.bsky.social) so in our second class... 1/3

we filled up our class jars of Math-y activities. Ended up leading to a great moment of pointing out that we have succeeded in Math, even if we didn't realize Math was happening at the time! I was able to snap a photo of one student's Jar that captured some of the positivity of the lesson. 2/3

Also wanted to start strong on Thinking Classrooms (@pgliljedahl.bsky.social) work after some struggles last year. Very grateful for @fawnnguyen.substack.com's piece on giving yourself permission to go off-script. Kids especially enjoyed the Chicken Nugget Task and showed so much thinking! 3/3