Desmos activity code1/6/2024 ![]() ![]() There’s serious blowback to the “you must do this/use this/be this” style of post. And my kids stretched themselves to meet a new expectation.Įdu-Twitter has undergone some changes the last couple of years. Lots of learning happened in Room 247 Friday. My long-time Gavit friends still smile when we hear or see it. “Success through lifelong learning in a spirit of teamwork and high expectations.” Heard each morning during Gavit announcements Looks like I’m still living the Gavit High School vision statement: Sometimes little tweaks to the way I already have set up my class can pay off grandly. Even big swings in important areas of pedagogy don’t require huge changes or a shiny new tech tool. ![]() I think the turn and talk to each other first helped ease them back in to comfort with answering classroom questions out loud. (Gentle reminder to myself that when I can work any topic into class where my students have personal experience they will fall all over themselves to talk about it). They knew all about it because they lived it. When I asked my classes what they thought happened in 2020 they were right there with Covid/remote learning as a possible cause. We were a little thin on time so the last few slides we just answered out loud and presto! Instant classroom convo. I added a slide near the end of the activity with data from the 2020-21 school year, when the enrollment dipped again after a brief rebound. Mathematically it’s a super-rich activity. It also represents the last handful of years before the economic crash of 2008, when that record of growth leveled out. Just on background, the activity uses a 5-year window of enrollment data from the Las Vegas schools, when the district (and the city) were undergoing dizzying growth. Exactly the learning I’m looking for in this activity by the way. Students pointed out that reality disconnected from their model so that even though they had done the math correctly their numbers would still be way off, and several looked at their line of best fit and questioned how well they had modeled the data in the first place. They made all kinds of connections which is cool. #FridayFun /i1cyrYwcwM- Stephen Dull December 2, 2022 They made so many connections I can’t stand it. Used the 2:1 setup so the could talk first then answer. Had a singleton Red day and broke out the CCSD enrollment investigation. But that still needs to be the springboard for actual human out-loud conversations.īeen trying to increase opportunities for students to talk with/to each other in geometry. As an accomodation to my reticent students I use a lot of forms for bellringers and summaries, and Desmos activities for lessons where students can answer in a text box. I can ask all the right questions, but I need to find a way to encourage answers. Even though I routinely score reasonably well in those columns, I know they are areas of growth for me. Questioning and Student Engagment are two of the domains in our evaluation rubric. So many are reluctant even to this day to answer out loud. Even three years on, the habits of solitude that students built during pandemic-era remote teaching and learning are hard to undo. There’s days even now I still feel lke I’m teaching to an empty room. Of course there would be no answer, and that wait (pretend) time seemed like an eternity. When I wanted to ask a question, I’d have to pull a stick, look at the seat where that student sat, and ask the question out loud. The part of that exercise I remember most vividly is we used popsicle sticks for cold-calling students. Just like if I had kids there – wait time after questions, managing transitions, the whole schmeer. He’d meet with me after school, go over my formal lesson plan, then have me teach the lesson to an empty room. The other was a 21st-century guy who firmly believed a brand-new teacher could benefit greatly from practice reps. He knew that for a brand-new teacher planning intentionally was critical – I wouldn’t know enough to wing it if things went sideways. He’d have me plan out my lessons in outline form in a spiral notebook, down to which problems from the text I woud use as in-class examples. One was very old-school, kept a paper gradebook, wore a shirt and tie to teach in. My student teaching semester was a valuable experience thanks to two outstanding mentor teachers. ![]()
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