The family math night that LaChance describes sounds like a
lot of fun, especially for younger students. I can envision it working really
well, especially in an elementary school setting. I would love to participate
in a family math night, or even host one, unfortunately I really don’t feel
like it’s an appropriate fit for the school I am in now, and perhaps would be
better pulled off with more years experience, and a decent chance at some kind
of turn out for participating parents and students. I would really like to see
some of the activities they used in action.
A couple of the ideas from the NCTM website were good. I
wish I had tried to call all my parents the first week of school when I started
this year. I will start the next semester that way. Knox County
already has a lot of parent contact in place, like all the grades on-line and
the schoolfusion pages. I really need to do a better job of trying to keep the
webpage up to date, but most days I really can’t because it is all I can do
just to stay on top of grading and planning.
Here is the nctm website (page) on communicating with parents. You will need to react to this as part of the reflection...you were working ahead!
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