Back to School Night 2015/2016 Honors Geometry Alycia Clarkson Room O-203 Welcome!

Back to School Night 2015/2016

Honors GeometryAlycia Clarkson

Room O-203

Welcome!

Parent Survey.

Who am I? What do I do?BIOLA University

BS in Math 1997MA in Education 2001

National Board Certification 2003

Department ChairTrainer for Geometry

Teachers forSouthern California

Math CoachPrescriptive Teaching

Main Goal

Get your kids to reason, analyze, problem solve, compare, predict, prove…….

To be come good Critical thinkers,

Creative problem solvers, Communicators, Collaborators

-Not just be good copiers who can regurgitate-

In other words…

REALLY think!

How?

Textbook is created with this in mind…..Read math- problems imbedded

Write math- explain answers in words

Discuss math- in teams and with whole class

Remember- Problems are spiraled so don’t forget how (see again in new situations at a deeper level)

More on teams…..Students now have multiple resources

available to problem solve, the teacher acting as the ultimate resource.

More complex problems can be solved with the help of others.

Teacher can now give more individualized instruction.

If students can explain their understanding, they definitely know it!

IMPORTANT INFORMATIONTeam Test- Similar to problem solving we do

daily… with higher stakes…. Now they HAVE to perform.No make-ups

(sports absences need to arrange to take theirs before they leave)

Drop the lowest test score each semester (if missed or messed up)

Homework Must get questions answered

Will get full credit when they doMust be done before individual test

Keeping tabs on your child’s progress…

What they should be doing:

Assignment sheetAlways in their

binder

How they are doing:Assignment sheetAERIES - your kids

have the passwords (same as their google passwords)

YOU can pick up yours in the office. (This SAT 8-11am)

Example of a stampsheet.

What to look for!

How can you help?Ask questions (on the

hand out that is on my website)

I have chapter help as well as some daily help in the form of videos on my website.

Encourage them to ask a friend or me!!!Tutorial (day pass)

Invest in a private tutorI will have a list next

week!

ONLINE.

Curriculum/ math dept/ geo honors

Textbook website

Parent guide example.

That’s all folks.

Thanks for coming!My normal handout is on MY teacher website along with other goodies.