I recently engaged in a project where I became a tech consultant for a classmate. We swapped our problems, and tried to solve them for each other. I was fortunate to be partnered with Drew Missureli, an experienced high school math teacher in California. Drew’s Problem of Practice: One struggle I find while teaching my… Read More Trig Problem: Solved
Problem of Practice In my classroom, my problem of practice is finding a method or model to utilize in my Response to Intervention Math Lab classes. Currently, my students struggle to stay engaged in both hours of math during the day. As an intervention teacher, I have to both teach the current content, and work to… Read More Instructional Design: Incorporating TPACK
QUICKFIRE! It is day 2 of year 2 and already we’ve been challenged with several quickfires. Today’s theme centered around visual/conceptual understands regarding misconceptions in education, TPACK and tech integration in schools. First, we discussed the introduction to Daniel T. Willingham’s book When Can You Trust the Experts? and more specifically, what misconceptions exist in… Read More Quick[er]fire!
What does it mean to integrate technology in the classroom? Ask 100 teachers this question and you will likely get 100 unique responses. In his book, The Anti-Education Era, James Paul Gee (2013) cautions: “Our world is now so complex, our technology and science so powerful, and our problems so global and interconnected that we… Read More Community of Practice: Math Teacher Tech Analyzed
My initial lesson, which asks students to combine like terms, was inspired by my intervention group at the end of the school year. Students taking the Algebra 2 final still had trouble understanding variables and story problems, even after they had extensive algebra practice through the course of the year. I was forced to consider,… Read More Lesson Plan Version 4.0: Networked Learning Revision
3, 2, 1, Design! After revisiting the Universal Design for Learning framework yesterday, and reflecting on my own Lesson Plan 1.0, I utilized a CAST table to organize my thinking moving forward with revisions. In the first part of this assignment for my MAET course, I was asked to create a lesson plan that I… Read More Lesson Plan Version 3.0: UDL Revision
One thing has been made clear in these first few days of my Masters program: The education world is acronym obsessed. After a day full of TPACK, we moved straight into UDL, or Universal Design for Learning. For those out there who haven’t spent the last five years in an intensive teacher preparation program, the… Read More Keeping Design in Mind
In an effort to create an engaging lesson that allows for inquiry, collaboration and self-motivation, I created Version 1 of my pre-algebra lesson for combining like terms. In the context of an eighth grade math class, I felt that it was imperative students get up out of their seats to start the hour, which is… Read More Lesson Plan: Version 2.0, TPACK Revision
When we were told we would be cooking this morning, I immediately looked around my group, hoping that I could be a bystander or curator, rather than a chef. After the first direction, however, it was clear that no amount of cooking experience would help us today. Direction 1: Grab a “vessel” Direction 2: Grab a… Read More Cooking with TPACK
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