How To Fall In Love With Teaching Again - An Interview with Alex Overwijk

<p><b>Today we bring on our old friend Alex Overwijk from Ottawa Ontario who shares his teaching journey and transformation from a pretty typical high school math teacher to an engaging activity based thinking classroom advocate! </b></p><p><b>In our discussion we learn the answers to how to engage your students with activity based learning, why finding a teaching partner who is willing to make change with you is so important, why you should be “all in” on a Thinking Classroom, how to draw senior students in to your lesson when the concepts are abstract, and why we should assess and evaluate with more than single unit tests.</b></p><p><b>You’ll Learn: </b></p><ul><li><b>How to engage your students with activity based learning. </b></li><li><b>Why finding a teaching partner who is willing to make change with you is so important</b></li><li><b>Why you should be “all in” on a Thinking Classroom. </b></li><li><b>How to draw senior students into your lesson when the concepts are abstract. </b></li><li><b>Why we should assess and evaluate with more than single unit tests.</b></li></ul><p><b>Resources: </b></p><p><a href='https://youtu.be/eAhfZUZiwSE'><b>World Freehand Circle Drawing Champion</b></a></p><p><a href='http://slamdunkmath.blogspot.com/2013/04/26-squares.html'><b>26 squares</b></a></p><p><a href='https://makemathmoments.com/episode35/'><b>Episode 35 – Visible Learning: An Interview with John Hattie</b></a></p><p><a href='https://makemathmoments.com/episode30/'><b>Episode 30 - The Most Effective PD You’re Not Doing</b></a></p><p><a href='http://slamdunkmath.blogspot.com/'><b>SlamDunkMath.com</b></a></p><p><b>Twitter </b><a href='https://twitter.com/alexoverwijk'><b>https://twitter.com/alexoverwijk</b></a></p>