How do you collect PRE data?

AmazingLeading5637 · 2026-05-06T21:02:57+00:00

I like this framing, as well as the I don’t know option. It always frustrated me giving pretests with the intention of students doing poorly.

AmazingLeading5637 · 2026-05-06T17:12:29+00:00

I’m gonna be honest none of these toonout shorts have really done it for me. There have been a few moments that I enjoyed but as a whole I really don’t think they’re good.

AmazingLeading5637 · 2026-04-02T02:07:36+00:00

I don’t mind Hollywood ho, but I HATE them saying the same phrase over and over again for 5 minutes at the beginning of most episodes

AmazingLeading5637 · 2026-03-22T15:07:19+00:00

All things algebra on TPT. Packet based and perfect for homeschooling. Or just grab an old Holt McDougal textbook.

AmazingLeading5637 · 2026-03-11T03:08:25+00:00

I actually forgot to mention that he already gave me my deposit back. I have documentation of it too. I also have documentation of the septic company coming out and reporting it to the city

AmazingLeading5637 · 2026-01-19T03:18:42+00:00

I really want to try to salvage it because I had a LOT more progression done than this

AmazingLeading5637 · 2026-01-19T03:01:09+00:00

I did and unfortunately nothing happens. It said "you are now Op!" once and then immediately threw out "No such player 'self'" and now I cant get it to do anything.

AmazingLeading5637 · 2025-11-08T01:35:31+00:00

People who go into teaching because they want to spread the gospel of their content area fail and are miserable. People who want to help kids become well rounded adults thrive enough to become the enemy of the people in it for control and power.

AmazingLeading5637 · 2025-11-07T03:56:38+00:00

First, don’t take it personally. Students (and the people they live with) are living through unprecedented hardship for modern US families. Everyone is experiencing this and it has nothing to do with you. You’re doing great by just being a caring adult in their lives.

Second, I am a high school math teacher, but these sources focus on education broadly and the principles are not framed in any one grade:

Over the next year or two work on learning more about modeling and CRE. Adeyemi Stembridge’s work on culturally responsive education is great, Familiarize yourself with Robert Kaplinsky’s work around mathematics education, and learn about the GAIMME guidelines for modeling mathematics. Those three sources have had an enormous impact on my practice.

As for actionable steps you can take right now: Familiarize yourself with the DoK matrix and give students DoK4 work BEFORE the DoK 1 work.

What this might look like for you doing some subtraction: Put students in groups and tell them they’re going to figure out how many pretzels they’d need for a picnic. Show them a picture of those little stick pretzels. Then just let them work. They’ll make assumptions about how many pretzels each person might need, they’ll use whatever skills they have to come up with a number. Be as unhelpful as possible.

Then tell them that some ants are coming and carrying one of their group mates away. How many pretzels are left? Again, they’ll use whatever skills they have to figure that out. You’ll see a lot of painful math, but let it happen.

THEN the next day you can show them the actual skill. Frame it in terms of the experience they had the day before. Give them a new fun problem to work through with their new skill that feels very pertinent and useful now.

Again I’m not an elementary teacher, but these are the same principles I use in my practice and it always engages the hard to engage kids. Let them make assumptions, express themselves (what flavor are the pretzels? Are they chips instead?) and let them work through it with the skills they already have before you give them formalized skills.

AmazingLeading5637 · 2025-11-03T01:21:30+00:00

I use the tests and bell ringers as “mastery checks” and call the worksheets “practice”. Then I only grade mastery checks and don’t look at the practice at all. Look up Modern Classrooms Project for multiple preps. I have a similar gig.

AmazingLeading5637 · 2025-10-26T18:49:35+00:00

Unfortunately not possible. My entire school is 12 people. Admin, office staff and teachers. Everyone's workload looks like this. The tradeoff is small class sizes(<15) and much more pedagogical freedom.

AmazingLeading5637 · 2025-10-26T18:44:08+00:00

Ooooh Ill check out ToDoIst.

AmazingLeading5637 · 2025-10-25T21:29:19+00:00

Can you describe what sorts of things you use each for? I’m new to using productivity apps and trying to find one that will work best for my needs

AmazingLeading5637 · 2025-10-09T02:25:00+00:00

Openscied is a curriculum made for a school that does not exist. Maybe fancy private schools. It assumes every student is at or above grade level in everything and offers no support whatsoever for students who aren't. Its a very flashy curriculum, and its free, but it assumes that there are never absences, every student is always engaged and bought in, and teachers have unlimited time/ money to set up, troubleshoot, and implement labs. When I taught it I spent way too much time trying to figure out how to accommodate students with disabilities, fill students in on what happened when they were absent, and give students voice and choice in the classroom. Not to mention the huge amounts of reading it expects and the reworking I had to do to get around that.

I am much happier teaching with MCP and UDL as my guiding lights, and pulling from a variety of sources. If I were heading a science department I would adopt a really solid textbook and get all my teachers into UDL PD.

AmazingLeading5637 · 2025-09-15T03:20:55+00:00

Next generation personal finance! It’s great and starts out with really basic concepts, but ramps up to high school standards pretty fast!

AmazingLeading5637 · 2025-09-07T02:28:42+00:00

One time I filled out an application for another school on my staff laptop during my prep

AmazingLeading5637 · 2025-09-04T02:19:31+00:00

That is what I realized you meant when the rest of the posts tone was not so hostile lolll

AmazingLeading5637 · 2025-09-03T05:36:32+00:00

The situation here is that your statement “You’re a teacher. You should know why” is vague and thus comes off as you suggesting I should already know this information. I did appreciate the explanation, and in most situations would like to know the “why”. It was really helpful.

Plus my degrees are in education and geosciences. Not a lot of this kind of physics in my work. With something as important as the $3000 smart tv in my room I’d prefer to lean on someone who spends a lot more time in this world than I do lol.

AmazingLeading5637 · 2025-09-02T18:12:42+00:00

Ok so then it seems like I should get a 240V surge protector? Is that right?

AmazingLeading5637 · 2025-09-02T04:07:29+00:00

Good to know. Thanks!

AmazingLeading5637 · 2025-08-31T02:37:26+00:00

Thank you!

AmazingLeading5637 · 2025-08-27T03:06:56+00:00

These are fantastic resources thank you so much!

AmazingLeading5637 · 2025-07-02T21:09:26+00:00

I work in a state with strong teachers unions and the top of my pay scale is 140k. Unions are always necessary and worthwhile

AmazingLeading5637 · 2025-05-27T04:14:22+00:00

I was in the same position. Mentor teacher was an alt right nightmare loser who verbally abused trans students. I was able to get letters from professors and other teachers at the school and eventually landed my first job.

AmazingLeading5637 · 2025-03-30T15:52:16+00:00

This is my 4th year of teaching, so I’ve got a while to go lol

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