This experience has been very educational for me. While it has not necessaryly been math based I have found a lot of things that are going to make me a better teacher. I have all of these ideas that I really hope go well this school year. With the fact that I will be going on maternity leave in the middle of the school year scares me even more then going through the fact that I am teaching two new classes this year. I have to figure out a way to get my students on task daily so that when I am gone the classes run smoothly. Enough about my concerns though lets talk about what is going to change this year.
I am going to have the students doing stuff online all of the time. They will have their own computers so that they can create different projects or activities and will not be able to use the excuse that they do not have a computer. I am going to have them sign up for blogs and for edmodo so that they can work on writing what they are doing into words. I also plan on letting them work in groups a lot. I realized on this experience how important it is for people to get feed back from their peers to gain confidence and reasurance in any process.
I also learned about the process of reflection and how beneficial it can be to both the teacher and the student. We have had to create training material throughout this process without really seeing it in practice. After seeing it the first time it was much easier to see how to make it better. So I will also be encouraging a lot of reflection not only from the students but of myself also.
I also want to incorporate as many pbl into my classes as possible. It was a great creating the lesson but I can not wait to see it be done in the classroom. I want to see how my students react to the lesson and if they are excited about it as I am.
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