Miss Younger's Math Musings
Introduction The idea of Intelligent Fast Failure resonated with me instantly, that giving students the opportunity to not only try but to fail allowed them to fully engage in the learning process. “Students who tried lots of ideas in a short period of time were going through a process of fast failure wherein each failed…
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I often use exit tickets in my classroom. I don’t typically use digital ones as I don’t have enough devices for this to be effective. Typically my exit tickets are on post its or student white boards. My students answer the question on their white boards and leave the board on their desks when they…
Our group chose to make a single point rubric that focuses on the skills of a teacher leader. We chose the single point rubric because they are clear for students and teachers to understand. They focus on the success criteria and give room for specific feedback on both strengths and areas for growth. Grow Domains…
As a school we already have several ways to gather data about students understanding and achievement in numeracy. We also have tools in place to help us track other student information. We currently collect a lot of student achievement data and as I am writing my first term report cards I am looking at a…
I have created a presentation on how to create inquiry units. The presentation reflects my process and how I would present it in a workshop to other teachers. This presentation also sums up my learning over the past several weeks showing how I have deepened my understanding of using inquiry as a tool to get…
https://www.edutopia.org/article/using-videos-give-students-personalized-feedback When I typed the term “feedback” into the search bar on Edutopia I found an article on the power of personalized video feedback. The author of the article states that it was their response to the remote learning conditions they experienced in the last year and it also made me think of another course…
I have created a single point rubric using student friendly language for our Who HQ project. Who HQ is a grade wide project where each student picks a person featured in the Who Was book series and spends most of second term learning about them before we present our “living museum” where students dress up…
This is something I would like to include in my BC Coast unit as something we would work on as part of our inquiry process getting to know the coast. I have included my teacher planning as well as what I would give to my students, typically with my class I would model the steps…
Summative assessment is not limited to a unit test, essay or paragraph, it can take on many forms that allow each student to shine. These are some of the things I have done or would like to try with my grade 4s Commercial Diorama Comic book Stop motion animation Build a play list for a…
I should preface my list with that I believe that play and games are an essential part of our school day and I aim to have at least one learning game as part of each day and to make things as playful as possible to engage my students. We play a lot of games some…
