Tomorrow (no class) is my next data dump day (after 5PM), so today’s the last full day of instruction for this course. Friday, we will review this week’s homework, and some light instruction and touchups. And next Monday is our last class, when we take the final.
A major part of my professional development has come from kicking back at the end of a work day, and reflecting upon what what went well, and more importantly not, and wonder why.
My biggest mistake, yesterday, was not saying thank you, (diolch in my native tongue), to those of you who corrected errors in my answer key. We all learned something yesterday.
Teaching would be an easy career if every day was a Friday. Today, all of the work is on you – here’s the rubric:
Flouting the pirates’ code, raising the black too soon, is as bad as barnacles on the bow. Floating on a virtual Sargasso Sea for a year, among the flotsam of rotting paper’d lesson plans and worksheets, now, I can tack circles around Big Data, but I try to stay off the radar.
My traffic always drops from Day 1 to 2 of my online courses, but consider what happened two days ago, and yesterday:
This is risky, asking you something not about math—what happened yesterday? I felt our class was at least as engaged as Day 1, but metrics strongly diverge from that hypothesis.
One of the most important skills you must acquire in the trades is delivering work product in a timely manner. Moving forward, DEADLINES WILL BE STRICTLY ENFORCED.
So our first item today will be gathering in shanties again, this time working on boiler carbon footprints.
Then, we will arrive at our first Real Trades Math problems: the “Are You Smarter than 5th Grader” questions, and the kinds of math applied to a construction site.