Reflections from a Third-Grade Classroom

Recently, I read an excerpt of a case study from a fourth grade math classroom.  The researcher, Olivia, was working with the class to figure out a way to represent the number of people in the students’ families.  During this activity, a number of sophisticated questions and concerns arose, demonstrating a high level of cognition [...]

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It may come as a surprise that I did not always want to go into education.  Most teachers (or teaching candidates) that I have met seem to have known since childhood that education was their calling.  I, on the other hand, believed wholeheartedly that teaching was droll, domestic, and suburban.  I was incredibly wrong.
Growing up [...]

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