When I first joined Cohort21, we were asked to think of a slogan that we could put on a t-shirt that represented us. So ‘let’s go exploring’ was mine. I have to confess, it was initially about travelling, something I love to do, but I quickly realised that this slogan also represent something that I love to do in teaching – explore! Explore new ideas to teaching mathematics – explore new technology for the classroom – explore new ways to assess; just explore!<\/p>\n
Thus, I decided that in my first blog post ever, I would share some of the things that I learned as a result of me exploring.<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 I will say that my first attempt was a hit and a miss at the same time. I did get the question I was hoping for, but it was after several questions along the lines of ‘what is the point of this video?’ A legitimate question and one I hope the students did get in the end. If not, well then ‘Take Two’!<\/p>\n There you go – a taste of my exploration in teaching for 2016-2017 thus far.<\/p>\n I am looking forward to this continued journey of exploration with fellow members of Cohort21 as I determine what might be my big project may be. At the moment, I am thinking that I would like for it to centre around how I might be able to do observations and conversations effectively in my classroom…. Stay tuned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"![\"img_1307\"](\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/lesliemiller\/files\/2016\/11\/IMG_1307-e1478466267167-225x300.jpg\")
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\nThe idea was for students to see that what they were learning was actually all around them. The next step is to see the purposeful application of these findings!<\/p>\n\n
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\nWell simply, you have to have a little faith and know that somewhere among all the questions will be be pieces of what you want to have the students learn that you may need to tie together – in other words, it will work.So why did I want to try this? The main reason was that I wanted the students to be vested in what they are learning, have some control in how the lesson was going to go. If they did, then perhaps they will be interested in the final result. ![\"img_1285\"](\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/lesliemiller\/files\/2016\/11\/IMG_1285-e1478526355226-225x300.jpg\")
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