For this blog post, I want you to consider what matters to you - what do you privilege as you begin your teaching career. Below, I will give some examples from class and I want you to write about one aspect that will matter to you as you become a teacher.
CRT and Lesson Planning
In one of the first learning experiences in the course, I asked you to explore a task for the following questions.
- How does the lesson/task enable students to examine scientific / mathematical concepts and/or procedures?
- How does the lesson/task create opportunities to discuss science / mathematics in meaningful and rigorous ways ?
- How does the lesson/task help students connect mathematics /science with relevant/authentic situations in their lives?
- How does the lesson/task support students’ use of mathematics / science to understand, critique, and change an important equity or social justice issue in their lives?
Connected to this, I want you to explore the following video about Reality Pedagogy from Chris Emden (Someone I highly recommend reading and following). :
UDL
We also explored another framework that is built to support students. We explored the UDL framework here:
Here is a link to the full guidelines from CAST.
As we dive into our work of exploring supporting students in our lesson planning, I want you to think about what you privilege. What will be your focus?
What I would like you to write about.
- Choose a part of the lesson analysis questions above, or a part of the Chris Emden video, or the UDL framework.
- Use your focus to write about what matters to you and what you want to privilege as you explore your student teaching, as you start to build lessons. What matters?
- Remember to be specific. You can even talk about the lessons you are going to create.
- Have fun with it and make it your own.