Videos that Inspire Me
Over the last few weeks I have watched a large number of math themed Ted Talks and a few others about education I have posted my personal video play list below.
Response to the Mathematician’s Lament
https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf The Mathematician’s Lament hit me hard as someone who loves music and art, I couldn’t imagine a world where a child’s only exposure to art or music was one where it was so proscribed as Lockhart suggests. I grew up as a competitive dancer and it continues to shape my outlook, reading Lockhart’s Lament…
Collective Presentation
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1TZvUFyHnv_QrAt5stbEtfd9EprUj4H19VtvdqvdxLFM/edit?usp=sharing In my most recent course we built a collective presentation this was a challenging exercise for me to know how to contribute to a group presentation that was built completely asynchronously. The results of this presentation surprised me in how well it came together and how little we doubled up on material. This presentation…
Family Numeracy Matters
Family Numeracy Times In other years my school has celebrated Family Numeracy day in May where parents or other family members are invited to come to the school and play math games with their students for the first hour of the school day. This is a great way to engage families and show them how…
Teacher Self Assessment
Would you want to be a part of a cohort in mathematics that tried Lesson Study? I would love to be part of a lesson study cohort specifically in math. I wish I had the confidence to suggest this to my coworkers. As the second youngest and newest teacher on staff I don’t always feel…
Teacher Feedback Debate
After watching the video twice I can see that Bill Gates brings up some good points about teachers needing coaching and descriptive feedback. We give descriptive formative feedback to our students but rarely receive it ourselves beyond our practicums. Currently it is on us to seek out feedback to help us grow. The idea of…
Assessment in BC and Finland
I decided to choose a country that we haven’t looked at in this course but when looking at PISA scores or other measures typically preforms well across all areas. The Finish education system has some similarities and more than a few differences with BC’s. one of the things that draw me to their system is…
Partner Discussion
Nicole and I had a wonderful conversation, and it were great to be able to talk with someone “face to face”, well as much as counts as face to face these days. We both share a lot of similar ideas even being two grade levels apart, Nicole in grade 2 and I’m grade 4. The…
Lesson Study
I like the idea of lesson study and would be happy to try it with my current team, our team has a range of experience from 3 years to 30 years in the classroom. The three of us have spent this year building a supportive and positive working relationship even giving ourselves a team name….
The Cupcake Lesson
This was my first attempt at a three act task before Spring Break. This is another lesson that is being added to my teacher binder for next year’s multiplication unit.