It’s been a while! Playing a little catch up. First:
Below is the slideshow I presented at the NCTM Regional Conference this past November in Seattle. It’s spare in the beginning because I mostly had teachers speaking in dyads — one person tells a story, and the other person repeats it back to them as closely as they can, and then they switch. Then it goes on to content on the basis of that exchange.
It’s also available at this link.
This was my first time presenting to an NCTM crowd, and my first time getting legs under this longer project of mine: how to think of student anxiety from a depth perspective, as something that we can work with and that requires us to reflect on our own practice.
People came to it! It was great! Look at all these curious math teachers! They didn’t realize it, but I was going to make one of them talk for a long time, and the other listen in total silence.
I’ll be presenting a broader version of the same presentation to general ed teachers at the PEN conference in Minneapolis/St. Paul this October. I am personally feeling some anxiety about that! Fruitful anxiety! The best kind.
