How have I grown this semester? Well, I am still a short dude, about 5’ 3”, lol jk! Sorry just what came to mind first. But on a serious note, at the beginning of the semester I really didn’t have an expectations except to try to learn as much as possible from the program and from my C-15 fam! I really didn’t use much technology in the classroom. The bits I used was to provide my students with daily agendas and live links to classroom tasks and homework assignments. Here and there I would pull up a Desmos activity that involved students to use their laptops but that’s it. So my comfort of using tech in the class made me feel a bit uncomfortable. This is probably due to the fact that I don’t have a class set of chrome books, I only have 5 available, and not all my students own one. And I didn’t really bother to think how I could implement tech tools with the resources that I have available. These attitudes towards using tech in the class have definitely changed now. Especially now that I have ran a project in my classroom that involves students doing most of their work on laptops. I realized now, that my students know how to create and have a good hand on using google docs or slides. Also, when telling them to bring devices, a little bit more than half of my students brought devices and by asking neighboring teachers to borrow their class set, almost all of my thirty-something students had a laptop! So now I am more motivated to implement projects or tasks that involve technology. I don’t fell as afraid as I did before. The tools that have been presented to us through this course have also helped out. It’s really nice to know that there are a ton of websites that are free for us to use and implement in our curriculum. That is something that I am looking forward to in the future. I think one thing that comes to mind is assigning not just projects but small homework assignments through different websites for students to play games or create games on their own and then bring them to class and master the math content as a class. But I am probably more excited to see and listen to what my cohort will be doing in their classroom. I enjoy listening to others’ ideas and their experiences in the classroom. Most of what I do is by doing just that.
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I have previously heard about flipped teaching. But never really researched it or “dived” into what it’s all about. And I honestly haven’t heard about Challenge Based Learning till now. To me flipped teaching seems amazing, just to think that I can give students resources that are then assigned as homework assignments or notes for them to do at home and then in the classroom we can build and master the content through rigorous tasks. That can save time in the classroom and focus on the math content instead of note taking per say. I can see how CBL can motivate students because the teacher is allowing for students to engage in something that students are interested in and then they are allowed to come up with their own ideas and hypothesis for solutions to a situation that impacts them personally. How much more engaging can that be? If I was in high school, I would have loved to work on a project in my Math class with peers and given a situation that is affecting our community and allowing us to find solutions to help others out while learning math makes me want to do math! This is my second year teaching and so far I have adapted, for the most part, PBL learning in my class. Now that I have taught the same subject for two years and feel somewhat comfortable with it, I think that I am ready to at least try the flipped classroom next year in Math 1. Will I try it in all of my Math classes? Maybe not, but who knows. I like this idea of flipped teaching because it does allow students to learn the content at their own pace, because I have seen students who don’t get to write all the notes down or are too shy to ask questions. So maybe at the comfort of their homes or at a café or a friend’s house they will be able to learn the content better. But before I can really try this out I would love to attend conferences or any sessions about flipped teaching and get a better idea of how I can really structure this in my classroom.
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