I am recommitting\u00a0to keeping a blog \u00a0in order to reflect on instructional strategies that I am implementing in my classroom.<\/p>\n
I want to use this space to keep track of my own initiatives. \u00a0 I find myself getting excited by approaches and prompts that I find on Twiter or Pinterest and believe that by adding them into my classroom rotation, that I am increasing student engagement and giving more of my students access to the mathematics since I am presenting it in a new way. \u00a0But I worry that it is I who is engaged by the new strategies- as this is my 10th year of teaching and I use what is NEW to keep me excited. \u00a0But I also want to know what WORKS with my specific students-<\/p>\n
Here are a few of the initiatives that I would like to track on this blog:<\/p>\n
– Transition to Algebra<\/a> Curriculum- brought to you by the good people at EDC- I use this with my 24 ninth graders in a class called “numeracy”- it is a support class that intends to bridge them towards algebra). \u00a0I specifically want to track the time I spend each day doing “mental math” exercises and reflecting on how to show students their growth in this area.<\/p>\n – Google Classroom<\/a>– I use this with my AP Statistics class to assign internet based assignments, such as watching YouTube videos of me “going over” the week’s problem set and asking them to reflect on the feedback I put on their paper or having them watch “Against All Odds<\/a>” Statistics Videos which otherwise\u00a0spend most of the class period “buffering” with my school’s internet<\/p>\n – Standards Based Grading- I use it in both Numeracy and AP Statistics. \u00a0I find tracking their growth informative and continuously surprising, but I worry that they are not reaching the level self awareness that I\u00a0had in mind<\/p>\n –\u00a0Interactive Notebooks<\/a>– \u00a0TTA, Google Classroom, and SBG are already daily parts of my planning. \u00a0As we enter our coordinate geometry unit in Numeracy, I would like to dabble in making use of these foldable graphic organizers for notes and examples and will track my trials\/successes\/blunders on this site<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am recommitting\u00a0to keeping a blog \u00a0in order to reflect on instructional strategies that I am implementing in my classroom. I want to use this space to keep track of my own initiatives. \u00a0 I find myself getting excited by approaches and prompts that I find on Twiter or Pinterest and believe that by adding … Continue reading Engaging for whom?<\/span>