Dec 21 Final Reflection

 Hello everyone,

It's been a good and interesting year back on campus, and I hope that we will get to be back next year with the rapidly changing health policies. 

Compared to EDCP 342, this course focuses more on researching a topic in education that we are passionate about in addition to having cool fancy ways of teaching through play and inquiry and multiple forms of engagement. We got to spend some nice time outdoor in the garden (in retrospect I should've brought some sunscreen) and did non traditional things in class.

This course has really shown me that the end of the program doesn't mean we stop learning and investigating topics and methods of teaching, as we will continue on and advocate for our students. It is also exciting to hear that many teachers and other people from different careers join the journey of research on education as well as teachers who go back and teach after they take classes (MEd seems common)  I'm interested to see where it will bring me, from a classroom role to other careers to research based or working for the Ministry of Education. I am passionate about inquiring what credible and equitable assessments there are to help students learn and grow and get the bets opportunities available to them. Learning differences is such a huge topic and getting struggling students to succeed and grow is an important topic, and I feel just as strongly as I feel for high achieving students that might have their learning and opportunities capped under our education model. We are moving to the mastery, standards-based model which should help some part of it, but I feel that you shouldn't need to have wealthy parents that send you to IB or private schools in order to have access to the best opportunities, because we are aiming for a world class education for everyone and students shouldn't have to jump through many hoops and systems to get to where they want. I am interested to see how I can incorporate this in my teaching as well as professional development and maybe different career paths from there! (and more studying? Some of my course instructors encouraged us to do a MEd as soon as possible since it's extra pay over your career and opens up new roles that we might be interested)

I hope to catch up with you all in the coming year and have a good winter break!  

Dec 9 Presentation

 

 

 

Here is the link just in case the embedding doesn't work.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1n_m6j80J3MebmLkYMpblC4nsPIEmnoyG-sD6SIbmQbo/edit?usp=sharing

Dec 02: Exit Slip on Permutation fun in class

 Today we had some fun with different ways of representing permutation. As opposed to just writing ABCD on paper, telling students that you can generate 24 ways of arranging ABCD in a sequence, we went through many interesting ways of representing this mathematical concept. The sound hearing process, as well as the visual organization of origami paper and poem making activities are really mind opening and I am hoping I get to try at least one out of the three on my long practicum. 

I am not sure if I will get to teach a unit on combinatorics (did it disappear from the curriculum content?), but I will certainly think about what are some ways I can transform some concept in an auditory form like the octave bell for sequences/series, or organizing origami paper to represent a arithmetic/geometric sequence in a visual and touchable way (there is something satisfying about putting these colourful square paper just nicely on a table).