The National Board Assignment | Online Assignment

Written Commentary V2

1. How did the pedagogical and instructional decisions you made during the lesson align with your planning?

*Most of my lessons followed the plans I made. How so? For example…

* I planned my lesson so that it included flexibility to account for unexpected and needed adjustments and to ensure my methods and practice informed the appropriate educational framework and considered both expected and unexpected academic interactions. For example, I asked the question at (00:18 “What happened to that P on the outside of it?) to get them on track. Are there any other unexpected interactions?

*I planned for the fact that my sts are kinesthetic and visual learners, so I used large white paper and colorful markers to write on the desks.

– What about any instructional decisions you made that aligned with your planning?

2. What , techniques, or activities did you use to promote active student engagement and the lesson? Site specific examples from the video recording.

*To get my students engaged, I started the lesson with a conversation about a student in the class going to college. The sts talked about types of college, college costs, room and board and what makes certain colleges so expensive. The discussion became interesting when students began associating the cost of college with the cost of books. I brought out a used college algebra book that cost $98 in 1987 and I told them the new book cost $ 80 more. They were shocked and this conversation opened the door for me to connect this topic that appealed to them with the content of systems of equations. Students were
*incorporated a combination of differentiation in the form of using large white paper, large font projected onto screen, identical task displayed on paper for my visual learners

* To appeal to my students learning styles to keep them engaged, I gave them opportunities to engage in student to student discourse,

* To engage my Kinesthetic learners I allowed them to use their desks as their white board with dry erase markers to show work of same activity but with different models to show mastery level

*choice seating, to allow for movement (time stamp with Jashawn and Ryan)
What about the topic? Was that engaging?
How about any materials that you used? Were they engaging?

* I adjusted question for each member of the group using depth of knowledge questions to aid every sts ability to participate in discourse and activity.

*Engaged my auditory learners by allowing them to use previously taught mnemonic devices to remember integer rules (time stamp with Savannah)
Strategically used questioning to engage my auditory learners to open the door for debate and discussion within group (substitution group).

3. How did you establish a safe, fair, equitable, and challenging learning environment for all students?
*I have 3 students with IEP’s who benefitted from the cooperative learning environment because it was less intimidating.
Tasks that are accessible but challenging.

*I want to ensure that I provide sts a mathematically rich task but. Task that makes sense to all. I created. Task that involved one of the students going to college. This stimulated discussion on the need for certain books for classes. I presented a scenario that would allow the sts to use

*The day before the lesson, I used an exit slip about the three methods for solving systems of equations. I used this exit slip to inform me about what type of scenario would engage my student in small groups. The intent of my question was to create a safe ground for all sts to inject some form of an opinion to their group.

4. How did you monitor and assess student progress during the lesson and how did this influence your decision making during instruction? How was student feedback provided and what was your rationale for providing it in this manner?
Knowing my goal was to…I believe it was worthwhile to…
Before the lesson my students knew…
Because of this teaching experience students would…
I know my students would…
I learned that my sts….
My sts are not necessarily use to…
I used round numbers in my scenario because it would I knew irrational numbers woud complicate the goal of he lesson.
From my feedback, I witnessed the light bulb moment in {time stamp} and I realized that

5. To what extent did you achieve the lessons goal or goals? Provide evidence from the video recording to support your answer. What were your next steps with these students as a result? (have evidence)

6. How was your approach to teaching this content to the students in this video influenced by past experience? Demonstrate math pedagogy. Good place for state standard and displaying math knowledge and understanding
Upon reflection, I know that i needed to do a whole group discussion in the beginning to introduce new concepts but chnage to small groups when I knew my sts were ready to explore independtly of the teacher. I knew that I needed to scaffold my approach by rethinking the lesson and I knew I needed to build confidence

I know that when I teach systems of equations, I need to teach all 3 appraches
concurrently becasue sts get confused

7. What would you do differently, if anything, if you were to teach this particular lesson again to a similar group of students next year? If you would not change anything, explain why? Talk about impact on student learning
If we did this…. And how did we know….

I have a video that will help as well once a writer is found.