Hi all, Well, I never considered that being a math teacher could wind up with me as a cheerleader, but there it is. Every day, I convince/cajole and cheer-lead kids until they admit that they know a bit of math and might be curious about the next thing we're covering. I also never expected to love teaching math via the Paideia Seminar. But after 11 years at the Classical Magnet School, it's become fun, and I firmly believe it's the best way to educate students in any area. My initial reluctance had to do with the fact that all of the math instruction I'd ever received was either didactic or coaching, with very little socratic questioning even in the best classes. Knowledge was a thing handed down from generation to generation, not reshaped and discovered anew by the newest generation of learners. The beauty of the Paideia philosophy is that it makes everything discover-able and then explainable in students' own minds and most importantly their own words.
