This has been a longggg semester with a lot of (almost) mental breakdowns and enough coffee and tears to fill up Niagara Falls. Retrieved from Giphy I can say that this math course wasn't as bad as I had originally assumed in the summer. When I came into the course, I expected the worst. I was convinced that this class would be how I failed out...
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Independent Brock Planning Template NAME: Ally McWhirter Grade: 7 Subject: Language Strand(s): Writing Overall Expectation(s): Students will be able to generate, gather, and organize ideas and information to write for an intended purpose and audience. Specific Expectation(s): 1.5: Students will be able to identify and order main ideas and supporting details and group them into units that could be used to develop...
In order to accurately understand if a student has understood the concept, authentic assessment is key in understanding if students are able to take the skill and apply it to a real world context. Sometimes just giving out a test isn't enough. There are a lot of students who have test anxiety and their best work isn't captured in a unit test. Students...
Week 10: Data Management and Probability As we are quickly approaching the end of our first semester in teachers college, I'm realizing how much needs to get done before our two week internship in December. We are all starting to see the finish line with a much needed break! Retrieved from Giphy We focused on two chapters this week which focused on data...
Would you rather have a noisy class of opinionated students or a quiet one where you know they want to speak but you cant get anything out of them? I have been the quiet student afraid to give out my answer or state my opinion, but I realize now becoming a teacher that we need to get the oral communication in our classroom...
How has Growing Success impacted my beliefs about assessment? I cannot relate completely to the Kindergarten Growing Success Addendum. Being in the J/I program it is my hope to teach the junior/ intermediate grades however there is some important information that all teachers can take away from reading the document. The Kindergarten Addendum focuses on a play based inquiry design program since young...
