6712 Final Reflection

The most striking revelation that I have had while taking this course is that I need to take a step back sometimes and let my students develop questions to ask me instead of always giving them questions to answer. By having my students develop questions they are digging deeper into their minds and having to think a little harder about the subject. This also allows them to learn more about the subject and in a much deeper way. By creating their own questions they are setting themselves up for success and understanding the bigger picture of what is being taught to them.

I have taken a lot away from this course. By creating the unit plan for Quadrilaterals I have now given myself three new projects to try to fit in during the unit. I am very excited to pass these ideas on to my fellow Geometry teachers and to see what they think of them.

One professional development goal that I would like to pursue is to open the lines of communication with the other teachers in my department so we can talk about different assessment ideas. One way that I could do this is to bring up this topic at our next math staff meeting. I also could take it one step further and open this discussion up to the entire school at our next entire staff meeting. I always find it interesting to see how other teachers are accessing their students in comparison to me. I think that this is something that all teachers could benefit from.

Darcey Kondel