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As I promised this is the final project for my Curriculum and instruction course. There are three parts. The Youtube presentation, a template, and a written report. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJyd2C1cqF4 Assignment #2 Curriculum Analysis Template Record your responses to each of the questions in the Analysis column based on your review of a curriculum guide. Part 1: Overview of Format, Organization, and Scope Questions Analysis Which curriculum document are you analyzing? Title: 8 th grade Connected Math 2 textbook Author: Glenda Lappan, James T. Fey, William M. Fitzgerald, Susan N. Friel, Elizabeth Difanis Philips What documents are you using? Teachers Edition For which grade level(s) and specific populations was the curriculum developed?   8 th grade Math regular education. Who developed the curriculum and what expertise did they have in the content area? Glenda Lappan-Pro

I know it isn't a protest march in Madison, but I'm thinking about them.

Would you like to learn more about common core and its effects on our school. Pearson (yes the people who publish our textbooks) are giving a series of free webinars. If you go to one please write up and add it to a page on our wiki. Here or here

·  As a school administrator and instructional leader, what instructional technology would you expect to see in the written, taught, and tested curriculum of a school or school district striving to meet the needs of 21st century learners? ·        Taught curriculum o    I would expect to see extensions and resources for the written curriculum online. o    I would expect that every teacher in my school to create at least one detailed unit complete with differentiations and share it online. o    I would expect to see a discussion forum for the teachers. A place where they can reflect on each others lessons, share what they learned, make suggestions for improvement, and more. o    I would expect to see teachers using laptops and projectors on a regular basis. o    I would expect that students would be given the opportunity to use web 2.0 tools to create, collaborate, and share. o    I would expect to see a computer based, or preferably game based program designed and used to give studen

Algebra Tiles I think most people have heard of these, but not everyone knows what they are and how to use them.  I’m not really going to explain that here. I have however found a great power point that is very easy to explain. A direct link to the power point is here. The Alliance for the Improvement of Mathematics site is here http://www.delmar.edu/aims/ What I will do is explain how to make your own set of tiles. Start with four different colors of paper. Card stock would probably be best. Red, blue and yellow green is suggested.  The x tiles will be red and blue and the y tiles will be yellow and green.  One color will be for positive and one color for negative. I would also laminate when done if you can. When making the tiles the important part to remember is that the long side of the tile should be immeasurable.  This is easily enough to figure out by simple using any sort of diagonal on graphing paper. Make the short side 1cm in length. Make two different size tiles. This i

Photo from http://www.postsecret.com/ on 2/6/2011 Honestly why do people think of this as cheating? Added 2/7/11 Perhaps the voices in my head are not coming through. It isn't cheating at school to take the drugs and stay awake longer to study. It is however killing you. 

Did you see this cool activity created by our own Mr. Foster? Of course not I haven't shown it to you yet. A simple excel file Students are to label points on a number line. Then move numbers around to make the columns equal zero. Great for practice in adding integers, but also great for building the concept of finding zeros, I'm also thinking it can help build the concept of equations, but putting the zero block in the center and asking students to add or subtract from the ends. Feel free to play with it. We were also talking about setting up a way for students to access these files and turn them in on their own. We are thinking a separate google doc for each student. You can access the document here . When you share the link (a setting in google docs) your students don't need an account to view the page. There is also a company Zoho.com with many of the same features as google docs. I uploaded the document there also. I think the formatting looks a lot better th