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Preservice Teacher Sources
Warm Ups: Foundation Math Review
Beginning high school students often needs a refresher of their foundation math, such as their multiplication charts, adding and subtracting integers, order of operations (Grouping Symbols, Exponents, Multiply or Divide from left to right, and Add and Subtract from left to right). It is always good to spiral these review topics into your daily lessons. I recommend to use these worksheets as warm up at the beginning of the period as students settle into their seats and start their math engines.
2) Multiplication Chart 15x15 (to challenge advanced students)
3) Adding and Subtracting Integers
4) Order of Operations 1 and 2 (here is the source, if you'd like to create more on your own)
Great Online Math Resources
Here are some sites that are full of math resources indicated by topics:
1) Graphing Papers: MathBits, MathAids, Printable Papers,
2) Which One Doesn't Belong: wodb.ca, meaningfulmath.com, purchase the book on Amazon
3) Chinese Tangram: Tangrams Set 1, Tangrams Set 2
Students with IEPs & 504s
These are some strategies and accommodations that we often use for our students with IEPs and 504s. Our regular ed students can also benefit from these strategies. I highly recommend incorporating these strategies one at a time for our regular ed students as you learn what works for you and your students.
Step-by-Step Guide on Locating Student's 504 on Infinite Campus.
Whole Child Education
Teaching is an art. We are not just teaching our students the subject contents, but the entire child. We are teaching them how to be the best version of themselves, a global-citizen, a hardworking generation, and most of all an emotionally balanced being. These are some of the activities I do in addition to teaching our students mathematics (or Chinese or whichever subject contents)
1) Operations Christmas Child (teaching students to give to someone else in the world that is in need and foster international friendship)
2) Greetings around the World (starting with ASL, Japanese, Chinese, German, French, Russian, Swahili, etc.)
Research & Fellowship Opportunities
As we, teachers, give and teach throughout the year, we need to utilize summertime to recharge. One way to recharge is to learn from the principal investigators at the cutting-edge of sciences and keep our minds sharpened with the latest technology and research. Here are a few sites that I utilize:
1) Pathway to Science: https://www.pathwaystoscience.org/programs.aspx
2) National Science Foundation
Conference Notes
As I attend various conferences, I take and share notes for conference attendees. I thought, why not share it here as well. Maybe you'd find them helpful. I usually will pull from these notes and organize them on this page (see above), but in case you want the raw materials to work from, here they are:
2019 CTA New Teacher Conference South: notes
2020 CUE BOLD: notes
2020 CTA Summer Institute: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3
2024 CTA Good Teaching Conference South: notes