Over the course of the last three years a few of my colleagues and I have been a part of a large change in the way we teach math. I\u2019m no expert by any means, but just someone who is slowly working to chip away at the shift in math education (at least what I think it looks like). After a lot of research, tons of theoretical conversations with my amazing colleagues about pedagogy, and tons of adjustments\u00a0along the way, here are some of the changes that we have implemented:<\/p>\n \u201cMastery Units\u201d<\/p>\n They can write tests early in the \u201cMastery Units\u201d \u2013 I.e. We have test deadlines not days! (AH!)<\/p>\n Conversations<\/p>\n Personalized \u2013 When Possible<\/p>\n Overall we\u2019ve found that certain units and content are better taught a certain way. Skill based units generally are best when students are given ample opportunity to practice \u2013 this works perfectly with the personalized units. Graphing data and relationships is perfect for projects! Everything we implement includes the thought process of how can we make this as personalized as possible. By personalized we mean that there should be multiple entry points and we\u2019re working on multiple exit opportunities too. We don\u2019t even know what a truly personalized math classroom looks like yet!<\/p>\n I\u2019ve helped to build all of these changes, but now what?<\/strong><\/p>\n Some challenges\u00a0we\u2019ve had with the \u2018mastery units\u2019:<\/p>\n After consistently researching and trying new things I\u2019m more confused than ever. What really works in the classroom? I find myself searching for an answer, but is there one? Am I really going to find something to help me solve all of my problems? Probably not, but all I can do is chip away at my goals, continue to solve problems along the way and be crazy enough to change my thinking and practice\u2026<\/p>\n The only thing that\u2019s crystal clear to me is\u2026<\/p>\n we want l<\/strong><\/em>ess of this: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n And more of this:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n [youtube]https:\/\/youtu.be\/_DFJMQogd_o[\/youtube]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We as educators are at a crossroads of change. We have a vague and blurred vision of where we should head, and a not so clear way to get there. We hear words like \u2018personalization\u2019, \u2018blended\u2019 and \u2018mastery\u2019, but all have our own interpretations of what those mean. The more articles or books I read, … Continue reading “Crazy enough to change…”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":87,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,4],"tags":[12,11,13],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-action-plan","category-classroom-reflections","category-face-2-face-sessions","tag-math","tag-personalization","tag-student-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/christinelovrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/christinelovrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/christinelovrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/christinelovrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/christinelovrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/christinelovrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/christinelovrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/christinelovrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/christinelovrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/christinelovrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Image](\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/christinelovrics\/files\/2015\/11\/bef7ec51f4a9b2ce25fa8676bf53e411.jpg\")
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