(re) humanizing learning

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.

1. Choose a part of the lesson analysis questions above, or a part of the Chris Emden video, or the UDL framework.
2. 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?
3. Remember to be specific. You can even talk about the lessons you are going to create.
4. Have fun with it and make it your own.