Chapter 5

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This chapter was about rehumanizing mathematics in the classroom. We were given different perspectives from different teachers and what they did within the classroom. Sappington would rely on not cold calling their students, building relationships with students by listening, anonymous sharing, and modeling vulnerability. Then there were Becker’s ideas for the classroom which were promoting mutual respect, revising a unit problem, and choice of format for formal assessments. Lastly, we have Wong’s classroom norms of explicit reflection of norms, building norms over time, and revising assessments. All of these things in their own way are the teachers’ way of rough draft math within their classrooms. Jansen also did her own rough draft of thinking by adding to her idea of what humanizing the mathematics classroom should be. She elaborates after each section from each teacher to her definition. We were also given a table called Moving from Dehumanized Mathematics to Rehumanized Mathematics where it took something that would be dehumanizing in the classroom, then changed it to where it can be a rehumanized classroom. We were also given some cautious points about rough draft math about how the concept of it can be dehumanizing to the students if we always stay in the state of a rough draft and never come to any conclusions after thinking together about everything.Reflection:
This chapter built on the definition of humanizing the classroom all throughout the chapter. We felt that this section was more transferable to all subjects, not just within the mathematics classroom. This gave us ideas on how to set up norms and classroom management in our own settings. We felt as if this was a chapter about self-reflection for each teacher. Every strategy that is presented in this chapter can be used differently for everyone, or not used at all for some other teachers. The questions below are for each of you to reflect in Slack about your own classroom practice and strategies that you use to humanize the classroom.

Reflections in slack week #week10-10_30_23-body-of-a-lesson-final-bookclub

1. Which of the teachers do you most align with?
   Suzi: No cold calling, build relationships by listening to students, anonymous sharing, model vulnerability
   Tom: Promoting mutual respect, revising a unit problem, choice of format for performance assessment
   Shellee Wong: Explicit reflection on norms, building norms over time, revising assessments
2. What would be your steps to humanize your classroom?
3. What would be dehumanizing in the classroom?
4. What is a quote that resonates with you from the chapter and why?