Miss Younger's Math Musings
Background Information Langley Fundamental Elementary School (LFES) is a large suburban elementary school serving students from kindergarten through grade five in the Langley School District in British Columbia. LFES is home to 22 division and 550 students with a diverse population including students with exceptionalities, English Language Learners and indigenous students. Based on conversations in…
Rationale My school has seen an increase in the number of students who are not yet meeting grade level expectations for numeracy on both the District Numeracy Assessment in grade 3 and the Foundation Skills Assessment in grade 4. Over all our percentage of students who are fully meeting or exceeding expectations is inconsistent. There…
The final assignment of PME 810 Integrated Curriculum, Planning and Assessment involved applying course learnings and the Backwards Design process to create a unit and learning activity. My greatest challenge when completing the unit and lesson design activity was my topic. I am most comfortable with math and science. My passion in the classroom is…
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I have presented my final task as a SWAY for public presentation. I have also included PDFs of the unit plan and performance tasks for this unit. All photos in the sway are my own images taken over the last 5-10 summers as I have travelled the BC Coast.
In reading about the different approaches to education and curriculum I realize that I don’t fit into any one particular box. I like elements of several and combine what works for me and my students to best fit their needs. If I were to pick one that best connects to my style of teaching it…
Over the past two school years I have been working towards fully implementing the Building Thinking Classrooms approach to teaching math. I’ve found that this has also led to me looking for a much wider library of rich math tasks. Changing my approach to teaching math has really opened my eyes to what is possible…
Resilient Problem Solving.pptx Over the past few weeks my definition and beliefs around innovation and what counts as innovation has shifted. Only a few weeks ago I believed that to innovate you had to be doing something brand-new and never seen before and that I was not an innovator. Over the past few weeks while…
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 found this assignment challenging, as my thinking about curriculum and planning has always been fluid and further evolved while reading in this module. Representing the ideas visually was tricky, as a learner with ADHD I often describe my thinking as in webs rather than in lines or patterns, I jump from one connection to…
I currently teach grade 4 and have for the past four school years. When looking at my planning process in relation to my key words I have found some areas of strength and a few areas of weakness. Doing this activity helped me to highlight some focus areas for next year. I aim for a…
