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Te 801. Week One: What is Your Philosophy of Teaching ?. Agenda for today. Work on a little writing and a little math Get to know each other a little Figure out some of our own learning preferences Write the first draft of a Philosophy of Teaching
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Te 801 Week One: What is Your Philosophy of Teaching ?
Agenda for today • Work on a little writing and a little math • Get to know each other a little • Figure out some of our own learning preferences • Write the first draft of a Philosophy of Teaching • Talk about the articles we read for today’s class • Talk about the rest of the semester and course expectations
Consecutive Sums • Write out 2 consecutive numbers • Write out three consecutive numbers (don’t repeat numbers from the first bullet) • What are consecutive numbers? Can you describe them? What’s special about them? • Add the numbers from the first bullet (this is called a consecutive sum) • Add the numbers from the second bullet (this is also called a consecutive sum) • How would you define/describe a consecutive sum?
Consecutive Sums • Write the numbers from 1 to 30 on your paper • Find as many consecutive sums for each number as you can • Do you notice anything cool happening? • Make some conjectures about what you notice (write these down)
Free Write #1 • Open a word document. Save it as: TE801.YOURLASTNAME.Freewrites • I want you to tell me about yourself. • Where are you from ? • Describe your family • What do you like to do? • Sports? • Entertainment? • Social life? • Why teaching? • Why Elementary?
Marcella’s Bagels • I will read you a story and you will try and figure out what the correct answer is • You can do anything you like to figure it out, but you need to be able to explain what you did to the rest of the class
Free Write #2 • Tell me about your school placement • Who is your CT? • What grade level are the students? • What is your schedule like? What did you do this week? • What does the classroom look like? • How does the classroom feel? • What does the school look like? • Physical space/building • Neighborhood of the school
Fencing Task • Your neighbor wants you to build a pen to keep rabbits. They have 24 feet of fencing with which to build a rectangular pan to keep the rabbits. • If your neighbors wants the rabbits to have as much room as possible, what dimensions should the pen be? • What if they only had 16 feet of fencing? • How would you determine the pen with the most amount of room for any amount of fencing?
Free write #3 • Of the three math tasks we did today, which was your favorite and why? • Be sure to include any aspect of the task that made it your favorite • Think about how you worked on it • The actual math you did • How you had to present ideas • Your interactions with me as your instructor
Readings for This Week • How do think the readings for this week connected to our first class? • What struck you individually about the readings? • Did you make personal connections? Connections to your placement classroom?