**No Week 3 Post because there was no school**
In today’s class, we learned many things from both a student’s perspective and from a teacher’s perspective. From a teacher’s perspective, we learned the importance of doing your work carefully and the value you add to your work when you make it look professional. In the beginning of class, our teacher gave us a mini-lesson on using Microsoft Word to create math worksheets for the students. It shows the students that you care enough to make their work, and it shows that as a teacher, you take pride in your work.
In today’s class, we learned many things from both a student’s perspective and from a teacher’s perspective. From a teacher’s perspective, we learned the importance of doing your work carefully and the value you add to your work when you make it look professional. In the beginning of class, our teacher gave us a mini-lesson on using Microsoft Word to create math worksheets for the students. It shows the students that you care enough to make their work, and it shows that as a teacher, you take pride in your work.
We also learned the importance of being meticulous when creating graphs. We had a project where we got into groups and had to create a story out of data (chosen by each group) and represent that story in a visual graph. In today’s class, we had a gallery walk where we walked around the room and left questions and comments on people’s graphs. It was really interesting to see how having the story in our heads sometimes causes us to forget important details in our graphs. When creating such graphs, we must always do so in such a way where we assume the audience knows nothing about the story, and must therefore be done very carefully. Interpreting a graph correctly can only be done if the graph itself was done right. So, how can I make this relevant to my students’ lives? I understand that by allowing the students to choose their own story to tell, I am allowing them to make a personal connection to the project. Still, making students feel like the lessons they learn in school are relevant to their lives goes much further than this.
The implication for classroom practice in regards to this topic would be to get the kids to start thinking about their futures. Have them share their potential career interests and have them do a project where graphical representations would be relevant. Still, this is hard to do since middle school adolescents often change their minds about future careers, but it will at least get them to start thinking about the association of the lesson and careers in the ‘real world’.
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