In an attempt to stay on top of my work, I have prepared this blog post about two weeks before it is due! While there are other things for me to do, watching videos was about all my brain could handle at the time.
First I wanted to watch Peter Lilijedahl's video about Building thinking classrooms. Here he explored areas of the classroom that could be altered to create a better learning and thinking environment for students. These areas along with his proposed solutions are below:
First I wanted to watch Peter Lilijedahl's video about Building thinking classrooms. Here he explored areas of the classroom that could be altered to create a better learning and thinking environment for students. These areas along with his proposed solutions are below:
Full disclosure: I also watched the videos that I could find on YouTube because it meant I could watch then at 1.75x speed
I saw some of these strategies being used when I was on placement, and they were really valuable! Two of the great pieces of advice from this that I gathered were using random groups and vertical non-permanent surfaces.
From there I moved on to Teaching as Professional Work which, sadly, I could not watch at 1.75x speed. One of the things I grabbed from this video were that teachers need to treat all students as though they deserve to learn and give everyone our full effort and focus. I also learned to appreciate the value in learning the new practices and methods of teaching and learning mathematics (I think I know where you got your dividing fraction questions from).
Moving to the smaller videos, I watched one on the power of a growth mindset. Here they discussed the changes that occur in a classroom of students who learn to appreciate the process of learning instead of the outcome, and how teachers can help to facilitate that type of environment. The speaker highlights praising the process of learning and celebrating when students are working toward an answer and not just when they get the answer right.
Finally I watched a short clip on engaging quiet students. The most notable thing I got from this video is to be comfortable with silence. This is something that I have been working on for a couple years now, and by allowing time for people to think and being comfortable with silence for even just a moment or two, you give quiet people the chance to organize their thoughts and feel more confident expressing an answer they've had time to think about.
In an effort to maintain efficiency, I have limited the amount of clever responses in this post. I save approximately 30 minutes by watching the videos faster, and approximately 30 minutes by not being as funny as I try to be. Hopefully with the extra hour I'll get more work done, and not just watch the Flyers game tonight.
Stay Tuned,
-KJ
From there I moved on to Teaching as Professional Work which, sadly, I could not watch at 1.75x speed. One of the things I grabbed from this video were that teachers need to treat all students as though they deserve to learn and give everyone our full effort and focus. I also learned to appreciate the value in learning the new practices and methods of teaching and learning mathematics (I think I know where you got your dividing fraction questions from).
Moving to the smaller videos, I watched one on the power of a growth mindset. Here they discussed the changes that occur in a classroom of students who learn to appreciate the process of learning instead of the outcome, and how teachers can help to facilitate that type of environment. The speaker highlights praising the process of learning and celebrating when students are working toward an answer and not just when they get the answer right.
Finally I watched a short clip on engaging quiet students. The most notable thing I got from this video is to be comfortable with silence. This is something that I have been working on for a couple years now, and by allowing time for people to think and being comfortable with silence for even just a moment or two, you give quiet people the chance to organize their thoughts and feel more confident expressing an answer they've had time to think about.
In an effort to maintain efficiency, I have limited the amount of clever responses in this post. I save approximately 30 minutes by watching the videos faster, and approximately 30 minutes by not being as funny as I try to be. Hopefully with the extra hour I'll get more work done, and not just watch the Flyers game tonight.
Stay Tuned,
-KJ
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