In this professional development we learned how to infuse writing in our math courses. One way that I have done over the past years is by having a journal which students have to write what they learned that day. I believe education is the process of guiding students, and giving them tools with which to explore and discover not only what the answer is, but why by writing in an essay form. In my classes this year, students discuss their discoveries in small groups and present them in writing assignments, explanatory papers and proofs done in and out of class, as well as projects and presentations. We need to balance our time so that students can extend the areas of mathematics in which they do well and also continue their work on becoming proficient in areas where they have needs.
Foster, Tacoma This professional development was most helpful to all of my English classes. Most of my students struggle in the area of vocabulary and are still learning how to effectively use context clues. I took full advantage of using the graphic organizer "a closer look" along with the unfamiliar words from the text to teach students how to take ownership of difficult words in the text. After completing the different catagories such as: synonyms, things or people that can relate to the word, how they feel when somthing is, what I might say when something is and what I might do when something is; they grasped a clear understanding of the words.
In this professional development we learned how to infuse writing in our math courses. One way that I have done over the past years is by having a journal which students have to write what they learned that day. I believe education is the process of guiding students, and giving them tools with which to explore and discover not only what the answer is, but why by writing in an essay form. In my classes this year, students discuss their discoveries in small groups and present them in writing assignments, explanatory papers and proofs done in and out of class, as well as projects and presentations. We need to balance our time so that students can extend the areas of mathematics in which they do well and also continue their work on becoming proficient in areas where they have needs.
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ReplyDeleteThis professional development was most helpful to all of my English classes. Most of my students struggle in the area of vocabulary and are still learning how to effectively use context clues. I took full advantage of using the graphic organizer "a closer look" along with the unfamiliar words from the text to teach students how to take ownership of difficult words in the text. After completing the different catagories such as: synonyms, things or people that can relate to the word, how they feel when somthing is, what I might say when something is and what I might do when something is; they grasped a clear understanding of the words.