When the Student Takes Over

for the master.

This will not be pretty. This will be infinitely derivative. Such is life.

I learned about Dan Meyer from another teacher who handed me his manifesto "How Math Must Assess". I had it, but I didn't get it. Here I am over a year later feeling like Dante being sent into the Earthly Paradise (teaching mathematics to adolescents) only I look back and see that Virgil (Meyer, with whom I've never corresponded,) is headed in a different direction.

So now I'm left to the classical tradition of stealing from the Masters. I repeat, this will be infinitely derivative.

I started today to apply Meyer's method of writing all my ideas down and storing them in a GoogleDoc. From there will come many of the future posts that you will see here. None of these things start with me, though I'm determined to forge the way for others, elders and betters included.

One idea from my list from today is this:

Goal - Teach other teachers by year's end

Strike that. It starts now.