December 16th: Course Reflection

    Something that I learned and took away from this course was how important it is to have a classroom that leads towards student inquiry so they'll be able to grow and flourish, not only as math students, but as students who are trying to navigate their life. It's important to incorporate different ways of teaching so students aren't stuck with a "traditional" method of teaching, especially those who don't tend to typically enjoy mathematics but enjoy other classes. It was so interesting to learn about different ideas to incorporate during the process of doing the inquiry project, I'm excited to incorporate ideas into the class like the flipped classroom, the thinking classroom, anti anxiety techniques, and many others.

    One blog post that stuck out to me was when we spoke about teacher bird vs student bird. Thinking about what I'd enjoy doing as a teacher but also reflecting on how I would do things as a student if given the question is very important. I also learned how important it is to reflect on things after doing them as a teacher bird, and how it'd be important to incorporate this into the classroom so that students are able to figure out what they do and don't understand.

    I enjoyed the layout of this classroom, but it might be interesting to learn about different styles of teaching.

December 7th: Inquiry 1 Project and Reflection

Annotated Bibliography

Flipped Classroom Presentation

Reflection:

    During Jessica and I's flipped classroom, I thought that our activity went well. We weren't sure how well it would go with such a short period of time, but a group from the flipped classroom ended up getting the highest score and seemingly enjoyed the lecture more than the "traditional" method! I think that since the activity was so short it wasn't a totally accurate representation of a flipped classroom. I wish we had a longer period of time to be able to do a math topic however we wanted to choose something that most of the students may not know about.

    I thought that it was very interesting that studies did not see a change academically in students. Another thing that stood out to me from a study showed that feeling predict final grades in males while course design predict the final grades in females. The main takeaway from the project, which I had assumed previously, was that if it was implemented correctly students enjoy the flipped classroom more! I'm very excited to attempt to implement this into my future classroom, however am worried that students will not watch the videos at home before coming into class.