End of Year Reflection

Hi Everyone,

John and I are sitting in an "Internet in the Classroom" workshop and the current discussion has turned to blogs. I was reminded of this lovely project that I, unfortunately, abdandoned in the midst of the murky year. I would like to revisit it at least once more now as we culminate our work in this curriculum for the year.

There are only a couple of days left of teaching, the final and Regents are coming and I am wondering how it all turned out. My 10th period class is immersed in looking at quadratics and will NOT finish in time, but, alas, I am not surprised. I know it is a difficult question to address before we actually see the first Regents, but while we are closing up shop what would you like to change about your own implementation of the curriculum this year (I need to change my speed and the depth of focus I gave to certain topics) and what things worked for you (I am still not sure about that)? What parts of the curriculum seem to be strong ones for your students (scatterplots and statistics for me - big surprise) and where do they falter (retention, retention, retention... it seems all topics were OK when we were working on them, but, as usual, I seem to be in the minority of those in the room that actually remember they were EVER discussed!)?

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