Math Identity Blog - Entry 2

Mathematics Identity Blog Entry 2 – Stepping into Teaching

Please post to your blog by 9AM. Thursday 9/16/10

Your blog is your voice as a teacher. It should show your journey as you create your own mathematics teacher identity, and will be something you can always pull from later on in your career so you can see what you were learning and reflecting on as you were just beginning to think about teaching.
Try to make your entries as visual as possible. This means taking photographs of your classroom and the things you observe, and then writing about why you posted that photograph and what it represents.
And remember, because of FERPA regulations, please do NOT take photographs that identify students or student work. That means don’t take pictures of their faces, or anything that has their name written prominently. And of course, make sure your CT and your students are completely okay with you taking pictures first.
Please take photographs liberally to answer these. You do not have to answer the questions exactly, but use them to guide the photos you take and then to write about what’s going on in the photographs and why you thought to present it on your blog.


1. Take pictures of your school, your classroom, and some of the things that you notice. What is your initial impression of the school? What’s on the walls? What’s going on in the hallways? What’s the culture like? 

2. What’s going on in the classroom during math? What is the teacher doing? What are the students doing? What topics are being covered? How are the students engaged? What are you doing?

3. What do you know about your teacher’s beliefs regarding mathematics learning? Do you agree with them? How do you know? What are artifacts that help you understand what your teacher believes? What do you disagree on? How if your own mathematics identity emerging?

4. What are you wondering about in terms of your own mathematical teacher identity? What are you worried about in your teaching? What would you like your peers (or whoever else reads your blog) to notice? What do you think you need advice/help on?