Make Math Great Again

With the new school year approaching it is time to put a classroom discipline plan in place. This plan was created by me during the 2015-2016 school year and helped to get my classroom back on track. This comprehensive discipline plan has a standard 4-step process to cover classroom behaviors from not wanting to work to cell phones. This is a great lesson for the first day or week of school and includes the following items: -An overview of the discipline plan -A 20-page Powerpoint presentatio

These Unit Syllabi are set up for use in the classroom as a way of tracking student achievement and growth. There are Unit Syllabi set up for a 10 Unit Geometry course that covers Intro to Geometry, Midpoint and Distance, Triangles, Circles, Similarity, Transformations, Trigonometry and Surface Area and Volume. Each Unit Syllabus has a layout of the days for the unit and what will be covered and also has space for the students to keep track of their achievement based on pre-created learning ta

These are guided notes, along with presentations (for most lessons some are better explained on a whiteboard) for each lesson in each unit of Geometry for the year. I used these items last year in my Geometry class and had a 74% pass rate on the EOC. Each Guided notes page has areas for the students to fill in information and also has example problems and practice problems to be used for practice or instruction. These items directly relate to my Unit Plans and Unit Syllabi, which are availabl

These Unit plans are set up for use in the Teacher Evaluation as artifacts for Domains 1 and 3. There are Unit plans set up for a 10 Unit Geometry course that covers Intro to Geometry, Midpoint and Distance, Triangles, Circles, Similarity, Transformations, Trigonometry and Surface Area and Volume. Each Unit Plan is editable so specifics (textbook, teacher name, interventions used, etc.) can be changed and edited for each Unit Plan as you go through the school year. These can then be used as ar

Unit 1 - Intro to Geometry This is a set of sports based materials for Unit 1 of Geometry. These worksheets were created to help go along with other materials. Added is a pacing guide for this unit which shows how these sports lessons are integrated into my unit. Along with the pacing guide is a list of all of the vocabulary that the students need to help them understand these lessons and be able to work through them. The pacing guide can be edited and should be given to the students so that t

Breakdown of the Mindset Theory and the importance of implementing this idea into the classroom.