Common Heart Preparation Reflection (Ogap Recap #1)
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I'm aid an amazing Common Core State Standards workshop this calendar week for high schoolhouse math teachers. It's called the Oklahoma Geometry in addition to Algebra Project (OGAP.) I'm 2 days into it, in addition to I've already learned in addition to hence much. For once, I'm truly able to visualize my students doing Common Core score work. Before I larn anything more, I decided that I demand to seek to write downward what I've learned in addition to hence far in addition to travail to procedure it. My listing of things I desire to practice earlier schoolhouse starts is growing rapidly.
Before starting this workshop, I was terrified of Common Core. I'd printed off the standards, but I truly had no thought where to start. The alone aid my district provided was a poster to hang on the wall that contained all of the standards. We've been studying the Standards for Mathematical Practice, in addition to I recollect I'm finally starting to empathise what they mightiness await similar inwards the classroom. As nosotros consummate activities, nosotros have got been finding just which standards they align with. The to a greater extent than fourth dimension I pass amongst Common Core, the less I dread it. Yes, I'd rather non have got to larn a novel laid of standards. But, these standards volition brand me into a meliorate teacher. They volition aid brand my students into meliorate thinkers in addition to work solvers. It's going to live on a crude oil transition. But, I'm excited forthwith to challenge my students in addition to hence I tin forcefulness out sentry them ascent to the occasion.
I don't know if whatsoever of this information volition live on of utilization to anyone else. But, I'm putting it out hither inwards the hopes that it mightiness be. And, if it's on my blog, I'll live on to a greater extent than probable to honor the information over again than if I have got to acquire searching for the many post-it notes that this information is currently written on.
Personality Test
One of the foremost activities nosotros did was a True Colors Personality Test. I had never done this essay before. After choosing which words best clitoris you, the essay volition enjoin you lot whether you lot are primarily Blue, Gold, Orange, or Green. Blue people value relationships. Gold people value duty in addition to responsibility. Orange people value freedom. And, greenish people value information in addition to knowledge. I was non surprised to honor out that I was almost pure Gold. My perfectionism, my obsession amongst to-do lists, in addition to my demand for lodge attest to this.
I'll live on honest. At first, I thought this activity was form of silly. Okay, I'm gold. Now what? But, every bit the calendar week progresses, the other teachers in addition to I are constantly realizing how knowing someone's color sheds a lot of low-cal on why they practice what they do. I recollect this would live on beneficial to practice amongst my students at the rattling outset of the schoolhouse year. I'd also honey to practice this every bit an activity amongst my beau teachers. I'm going to live on constituent of the professional person development team at my schoolhouse adjacent year, but I'm non certain nosotros volition have got fourth dimension for this on our alone in-service twenty-four hours earlier schoolhouse starts.
If you're interested inwards learning to a greater extent than almost this personality test, I found some great copies of the essay in addition to explanations of the meanings of the colors online. Let's simply tell at that topographic point is a whole lot to a greater extent than to the colors than the one-word descriptors I wrote above!
Graphing Calculators
As constituent of the workshop, each instructor received a novel TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition Graphing Calculator. This is my foremost fourth dimension to utilization a estimator that graphs inwards color. I similar that you lot tin forcefulness out remove what color to graph each line or laid of information in. And, the adapter that allows you lot to plug it inwards to accuse is also a squeamish feature. The menus in addition to features are similar but non just the same every bit the TI-84s I already have got inwards my classroom. However, it was suggested today that nosotros update the operating organisation on all of our TI-84s. I definitely demand to await into that this summertime in addition to acquire it done earlier schoolhouse starts dorsum up! I recollect the color in addition to other added features may have got slowed downward the estimator a bit. I honor myself sometimes getting impatient amongst the estimator because it doesn't graph things every bit chop-chop every bit I recollect it should.
One affair that was mentioned this calendar week was that nosotros demand to forcefulness our students to remove their ain window when graphing amongst the graphing calculator. Our students demand to think. And, educational activity them shortcuts such every bit Zoom Fit doesn't require them to think. Thinking should live on our goal. I'm definitely guilty of this.
We've done several activities that involved collecting real-world data, creating a scatter plot on our graphing calculators, in addition to using the linear regression characteristic to honor a draw of best fit. As a agency to start learning everyone's names, nosotros timed the teachers at the foremost tabular array every bit they said their holler in addition to their color from the personality test. Then, nosotros timed the teachers at the foremost in addition to minute tabular array maxim their holler in addition to color. This continued until nosotros had made it all the agency closed to the room. This gave us a laid of data to move inwards in our graphing calculator. We used linear regression to honor the draw of best gibe for our data. I recollect this would live on a peachy agency to review the concepts of gradient in addition to y-intercept amongst my Algebra 2 in addition to Statistics students.
Participating in this activity makes me promise that the grant I wrote for a classroom laid of diverse measuring tools gets funded. I really demand stopwatches for my students to use! I'm going to have got my Algebra 2 students start getting used to the graphing estimator from Day 1 next year. And, I volition bring out my Algebra 1 students to the graphing estimator adjacent yr to aid them laid upward for Common Core fifty-fifty though the graphing estimator volition nonetheless non live on allowed on adjacent year's Algebra 1 EOI exam. If I don't start my Algebra 1 students forthwith amongst the graphing calculator, I volition live on putting them at a disadvantage when they acquire to Algebra 2.
We also used stopwatches in addition to our graphing calculators to consummate the Bouncing Tennis Balls activity from NCTM Illuminations.
Collaborative Learning
"Collaborative learning [group work] involves to a greater extent than than students sitting closed to a tabular array in addition to working on the same task."
If I'm going to utilization collaborative learning inwards my classroom, I demand to constitute norms. And, I demand to concord my students accountable for maintaining those norms.
If a educatee is off-task, approach them amongst a query instead of a command. It's much to a greater extent than powerful to ask, "What practice you lot demand to acquire started today?" than to enjoin them to acquire to work.
Teachers must brand thinking intentional.
As teachers, nosotros are non the alone people amongst cognition inwards our classroom.
Our students demand to sense constructive struggling. We read this article almost constructive struggling, and it was eye-opening.
We typically laissez passer on students like shooting fish in a barrel problems that afterward build to harder problems. What if nosotros started giving our students the difficult problems first?
In a collaborative learning classroom, students should non inquire the instructor for aid unless they have got already asked every unmarried grouping fellow member for help.
Don't always have got the pencil out of the mitt of the educatee you lot are helping!
Students (and teachers) demand to know that helping is non the same every bit telling.
If you lot desire your students to live on accountable, hither are some rules you lot tin forcefulness out implement: You tin forcefulness out write alone on your ain paper. You tin forcefulness out allow people come across your paper, but you lot cannot mitt it over to somebody else.
Provide students amongst judgement starters to aid students hash out their thinking together. (I demand to brand a poster of these to hang inwards my classroom!)
Function Notation
My Algebra 1 students truly struggled amongst agreement business office notation finally year. Today, nosotros did a peachy activity that links the concept of business office notation to a occupation solid unit of measurement tree. This activity is taken from the Oct 1987 effect of the Mathematics Teacher. I found a link to a pdf re-create of the activity online. Before I utilization this with my classes, I volition definitely live on retyping it in addition to making certain that every unmarried soul inwards the occupation solid unit of measurement tree has a holler that starts amongst a dissimilar missive of the alphabet of the alphabet. I honey how this activity quickly moves students from reading business office notation to finding the composition of 2 functions.
I'm hoping that my students volition start to understand exactly what business office notation is. f(x) does non hateful f times x. And, I'm hoping this volition help keep them from deciding that they must dissever both sides yesteryear f inwards lodge to acquire x yesteryear itself.
Before starting this workshop, I was terrified of Common Core. I'd printed off the standards, but I truly had no thought where to start. The alone aid my district provided was a poster to hang on the wall that contained all of the standards. We've been studying the Standards for Mathematical Practice, in addition to I recollect I'm finally starting to empathise what they mightiness await similar inwards the classroom. As nosotros consummate activities, nosotros have got been finding just which standards they align with. The to a greater extent than fourth dimension I pass amongst Common Core, the less I dread it. Yes, I'd rather non have got to larn a novel laid of standards. But, these standards volition brand me into a meliorate teacher. They volition aid brand my students into meliorate thinkers in addition to work solvers. It's going to live on a crude oil transition. But, I'm excited forthwith to challenge my students in addition to hence I tin forcefulness out sentry them ascent to the occasion.
I don't know if whatsoever of this information volition live on of utilization to anyone else. But, I'm putting it out hither inwards the hopes that it mightiness be. And, if it's on my blog, I'll live on to a greater extent than probable to honor the information over again than if I have got to acquire searching for the many post-it notes that this information is currently written on.
Personality Test
One of the foremost activities nosotros did was a True Colors Personality Test. I had never done this essay before. After choosing which words best clitoris you, the essay volition enjoin you lot whether you lot are primarily Blue, Gold, Orange, or Green. Blue people value relationships. Gold people value duty in addition to responsibility. Orange people value freedom. And, greenish people value information in addition to knowledge. I was non surprised to honor out that I was almost pure Gold. My perfectionism, my obsession amongst to-do lists, in addition to my demand for lodge attest to this.
I'll live on honest. At first, I thought this activity was form of silly. Okay, I'm gold. Now what? But, every bit the calendar week progresses, the other teachers in addition to I are constantly realizing how knowing someone's color sheds a lot of low-cal on why they practice what they do. I recollect this would live on beneficial to practice amongst my students at the rattling outset of the schoolhouse year. I'd also honey to practice this every bit an activity amongst my beau teachers. I'm going to live on constituent of the professional person development team at my schoolhouse adjacent year, but I'm non certain nosotros volition have got fourth dimension for this on our alone in-service twenty-four hours earlier schoolhouse starts.
If you're interested inwards learning to a greater extent than almost this personality test, I found some great copies of the essay in addition to explanations of the meanings of the colors online. Let's simply tell at that topographic point is a whole lot to a greater extent than to the colors than the one-word descriptors I wrote above!
Graphing Calculators
As constituent of the workshop, each instructor received a novel TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition Graphing Calculator. This is my foremost fourth dimension to utilization a estimator that graphs inwards color. I similar that you lot tin forcefulness out remove what color to graph each line or laid of information in. And, the adapter that allows you lot to plug it inwards to accuse is also a squeamish feature. The menus in addition to features are similar but non just the same every bit the TI-84s I already have got inwards my classroom. However, it was suggested today that nosotros update the operating organisation on all of our TI-84s. I definitely demand to await into that this summertime in addition to acquire it done earlier schoolhouse starts dorsum up! I recollect the color in addition to other added features may have got slowed downward the estimator a bit. I honor myself sometimes getting impatient amongst the estimator because it doesn't graph things every bit chop-chop every bit I recollect it should.
One affair that was mentioned this calendar week was that nosotros demand to forcefulness our students to remove their ain window when graphing amongst the graphing calculator. Our students demand to think. And, educational activity them shortcuts such every bit Zoom Fit doesn't require them to think. Thinking should live on our goal. I'm definitely guilty of this.
We've done several activities that involved collecting real-world data, creating a scatter plot on our graphing calculators, in addition to using the linear regression characteristic to honor a draw of best fit. As a agency to start learning everyone's names, nosotros timed the teachers at the foremost tabular array every bit they said their holler in addition to their color from the personality test. Then, nosotros timed the teachers at the foremost in addition to minute tabular array maxim their holler in addition to color. This continued until nosotros had made it all the agency closed to the room. This gave us a laid of data to move inwards in our graphing calculator. We used linear regression to honor the draw of best gibe for our data. I recollect this would live on a peachy agency to review the concepts of gradient in addition to y-intercept amongst my Algebra 2 in addition to Statistics students.
Participating in this activity makes me promise that the grant I wrote for a classroom laid of diverse measuring tools gets funded. I really demand stopwatches for my students to use! I'm going to have got my Algebra 2 students start getting used to the graphing estimator from Day 1 next year. And, I volition bring out my Algebra 1 students to the graphing estimator adjacent yr to aid them laid upward for Common Core fifty-fifty though the graphing estimator volition nonetheless non live on allowed on adjacent year's Algebra 1 EOI exam. If I don't start my Algebra 1 students forthwith amongst the graphing calculator, I volition live on putting them at a disadvantage when they acquire to Algebra 2.
We also used stopwatches in addition to our graphing calculators to consummate the Bouncing Tennis Balls activity from NCTM Illuminations.
Collaborative Learning
"Collaborative learning [group work] involves to a greater extent than than students sitting closed to a tabular array in addition to working on the same task."
If I'm going to utilization collaborative learning inwards my classroom, I demand to constitute norms. And, I demand to concord my students accountable for maintaining those norms.
If a educatee is off-task, approach them amongst a query instead of a command. It's much to a greater extent than powerful to ask, "What practice you lot demand to acquire started today?" than to enjoin them to acquire to work.
Teachers must brand thinking intentional.
As teachers, nosotros are non the alone people amongst cognition inwards our classroom.
Our students demand to sense constructive struggling. We read this article almost constructive struggling, and it was eye-opening.
We typically laissez passer on students like shooting fish in a barrel problems that afterward build to harder problems. What if nosotros started giving our students the difficult problems first?
In a collaborative learning classroom, students should non inquire the instructor for aid unless they have got already asked every unmarried grouping fellow member for help.
Don't always have got the pencil out of the mitt of the educatee you lot are helping!
Students (and teachers) demand to know that helping is non the same every bit telling.
If you lot desire your students to live on accountable, hither are some rules you lot tin forcefulness out implement: You tin forcefulness out write alone on your ain paper. You tin forcefulness out allow people come across your paper, but you lot cannot mitt it over to somebody else.
Provide students amongst judgement starters to aid students hash out their thinking together. (I demand to brand a poster of these to hang inwards my classroom!)
Function Notation
My Algebra 1 students truly struggled amongst agreement business office notation finally year. Today, nosotros did a peachy activity that links the concept of business office notation to a occupation solid unit of measurement tree. This activity is taken from the Oct 1987 effect of the Mathematics Teacher. I found a link to a pdf re-create of the activity online. Before I utilization this with my classes, I volition definitely live on retyping it in addition to making certain that every unmarried soul inwards the occupation solid unit of measurement tree has a holler that starts amongst a dissimilar missive of the alphabet of the alphabet. I honey how this activity quickly moves students from reading business office notation to finding the composition of 2 functions.
I'm hoping that my students volition start to understand exactly what business office notation is. f(x) does non hateful f times x. And, I'm hoping this volition help keep them from deciding that they must dissever both sides yesteryear f inwards lodge to acquire x yesteryear itself.
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