Point of Inflection

I'm narrating a skit. The young woman is a time switch. Obviously.

I’m Riley Lark, and 2009-2010 was my fifth year as a teacher of high school students.

I use standards-based grading, I don’t grade my students’ homework, and I try to ask interesting questions.  These are all great things, but my blog isn’t particularly focused on them (though I do write about them occasionally) – explore my blogroll for more focused treatments.

This blog does focus especially on a few other areas of teaching.  I’m a big fan of constructing environments with which students can interact during a lesson, so that they must ask questions of those environments instead of asking questions of me.  I have a whole page about it – click “Bringing the Problem to Reality” in the menu to read about that.  These environments are made out of physical objects and also virtual setups that I create mostly with Geogebra.  I also focus specifically on the important lessons of humanity we can teach through our math classes – click “Holistic Education” to read more about that.

During 2010-2011 I’ll be creating a piece of grading software.  Stay tuned for more information there – I’ll need beta testers starting in November 2010, for the second semester of next year.

I hope you’ll subscribe, leave comments, and follow me on twitter @rileylark.  Thanks for reading!