The question for this week asks about what we feel will change in our classrooms. I do not even know where to start on this. I feel like this next year is going to be my first year all over again. While I am very excited about the fact that I am starting at a new school this fall I am very overwhelmed at the same time. I will be teaching two classes that I have not taught before or even really looked at for a couple of years. This will also be the first time that I have worked at a school that is one to one. One to one means that every single student will have their own laptop and will bring it to class with them daily. That changes all sorts of things for me. I got two ideas so far from this externship that I will expect my students to use almost daily. I am going to have all of them sign up for edmodo and I am going to have them create a blog so that they can answer reflection questions at the end of every chapter. The reflection questions are something that I have wanted to do for years and I have not been able to figure out a way that I can have them post their answers at one common place where their classmates can read their responses without having to go to a bunch of different places. Edmodo will allow that to happen and with all of them having a computer they will not have an excuse to not get the assignment done. As I stated in the previous blog I do have a lot of other basic teaching changes that I want to apply in my classroom next year.
The students that I have this fall will not be able to compare my previous teaching style to my new teaching style. August will be the first time that they meet me. I am hoping though that they are able to tell a difference between me and any of their previous math teachers. I would like to make a difference in the way that students are learning math since they have no idea what I had done in the past.
As I stated in my last blog I have so many ideas and I think after this week I am slowly able to seperate what I plan on doing and what I think is a little unrealistic this next school year.
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