Who am I

Hello , 

I am Viola and had the idea of the  decemi -conzept. 

Mother and teacher:

When I was a child, I loved to take care of younger children to teach them knowledge and moves. My mother, a Kindergartenteacher and trainer offered me a lot of responsibilities. I became a highschoolteacher for Mathematics an PE and wanted to conduct learners into their favorite jobs. So I started my work at a college, which offerered their students to become trainer, Kindergartenteacher, social worker, artist, chef and a lot more. Early I worked at the school, where I loved to be. Beside the curricular, I taught the Kindergartenteachers "Mathematics in Kindergarten" and learned a lot for myself to improve. My own children had AuPairs to take care of them. The sharing of knowledge brought suggestions from different countries, like learning before school, in holidays or even without school. One of our Aupair did spent just grade 12 at school. Teachers conduct her, when she had questions and offered lessons online, if needed. Such a conductor I wanted to be at school. Instead I was disappointed to test on one level each time to set fair, reliable marks and sort, who passed the year or failed. Still I loved my job.

Phase of illness:

 !!Attention!! The following article contents thoughts of psychical illness and could trigger.

After two miscarriages I did wander in an extreme mania, in which I was writing books about everything, what I was thinking of - day and nights. Never Writing set such a bond on me. My flooding ideas I discussed with a lot of people, even some I wouldn´t have spoken to. After a lot more strange behavior of mine, I was leading the discussions in a hotel for luck - official term was: closed psychiartic clinic. Family and friends conduct me also in this challenging phase and afterwards. The following time of depression beamed my thoughts to my darkest experiences: Beside of the forced time in the psychiartric clinic, there was just one thing in my mind: grades/marks. As being a pupil, a student and even becoming a teacher, getting marks managed to make me disbelieve of my abilities. As a teacher I had even a pupil scribing her arms for getting mark "good" instead of a "very good" and another was telling me about suicide for getting a bad mark in the A-level -class. I had to keep on grading both of them and feared of their health, because none of my colleges thought them in danger of my marks. With that thoughts of school my negativ suck me in - deaper and deaper and they start to cry for myself now: "Kill yourself!" and  "If you once think again, that you have to set marks on pupils like those, then.. jump off the schoolbuilding!". There might be no stronger thoughts, than thoughts in psychical illness. They never stop day- or nighttime. No lose of power - everytime a reason for suicide and if I managed to blow all reasons away, then it was the reason, that those thoughts will finally stop. I managed that phase with help of lifebalance, family, friends and youth wellfare support, who managed to get incognito psychical help for me. They rebuild trust in Psychologists and Psychiartrists, which I started then. As beeing a teacher I am still a challenging patient - I know everything better ;) and just take, what I think is helpful for me. First of all I wasn´t allowed to get back to school, even I wanted and tried different other ways. 

Maria Montessori

One way was to teach at a free Montessori-orientated Primary School, who taught grade 1 to 4 in one class and instead of marks they noted the managed targets. I loved that system and trained for getting a Montessori teacher degree. I tried to get the knowledge also for material of Montessori in highschool and some passionated helped me in extra hours. Motivated I started to create my own material, where I thought something is missing. There was material in meters, decimeters and centimeters, but noone would measure with them. It was ment for laying various pattern and some even forgot the reason, that Maria Montessori probably choose a meter on purpose, instead of 50centimeters.

My idea

After I didn´t get a job at schools without grades, I used my time for my own ideas. I started to craft my material, while my children spent time at Kindergarten, primaryschool and highschool. Testing with my own children, their friends and teacherfriends. With the new material I lMit meinen neu entstandenen decemi- Materialideen leitete ich anschließend ehrenamtliche Projekte für Mathematik im Kindergarten an der Volkshochschule. Dabei erhielt ich Resonanz von Kindern, Erziehern, Eltern und Lehrerfreunden aus der Grundschule und passte meine Materialien an. Das Interesse von Kollegen der weiterführenden Schulen blieb verhalten und ich begann meine Ideen mit meinen decemi- Material für die weiterführenden Schulen zu konkretisieren. Mein Material erweiterte ich für den dreidimensionalen Raum, die Veranschaulichung von Gleichungssystemen und Funktionen an.

Mein Ziel: Bildung

Gerne möchte ich mehr Lernende mit meinem decemi- Material ein motivierenden Zugang zur Mathematik entdecken lassen können. Ich finde es wichtig im Mathematikunterricht auszuprobieren, anstatt Lehrenden einfach zu glauben, was sie sagen. Ich war schon als Schülerin begeistert eigene Wege zu finden, anstatt eine Handlungsanweisung oder Formel anzuwenden, deren Sinn sich mir noch nicht erschloss. Das war das, was Mathematik für mich spannend gemacht hat. Diese Erfahrung kann mit dem decemi-Material anschaulich unterstützt werden. Ich wünsche mir, dass das decemi-Material für jeden Lernort verfügbar sein kann, weshalb ich die Materialien auch zum Selbstbasteln anbiete.

Bildung sehe ich als den Schlüssel, sich selbst ein Bild machen und Meinungen von anderen überprüfen zu können. Die Mathematik ist die Grundlage jeder Wissenschaft. Ohne gemessene Zahlen und Daten, bleibt alles bei Vermutungen.

Meine Unterstützung

Inzwischen habe ich ein Team, dass mich unterstützt. Ich bin ihnen, meiner Familie und Freunden dankbar. Ohne sie alle wäre dieser Traum von mir nicht realisiert worden. Und ich danke dir, dass du dir die Zeit genommen hast, in die decemi- Welt einzutauchen und die Idee vielleicht sogar weiterverbreiten wirst.

Hat es dir das decemi- Konzept gefallen, dann schreibe mir auf meiner Facebookseite "decemi" gerne eine Rückmeldung. Hat es dir nicht gefallen, dann schreibe mir, wie du es anders machen würdest. Vielleicht lassen sich deine Ideen ja mit hinzufügen oder jemand anderes kann sie umsetzen. Ich bin kein Fan ständiger Erreichbarkeit und für manche Rückmeldung werde ich gewiss Zeit brauchen, sie zu verarbeiten. Davor habe ich Angst. Gleichzeitig bin ich sehr gespannt auf eure Ideen.