Day+13

=== I absolutely loved today's lesson. At first, my partner Liz and I, discussed some teaching strategies which we feel will be useful to use within our own classroom. Cooperative group work, problem based learning (PBL) and predict observe explain (POE) are probably my top 3 choices. Of course there are other examples, and ones such as technology which are vague, but whatever the case, they must all be implemented to fit the needs of different learning styles. ===

=== Following this, we watched a video based on mathematical teaching strategies. I for one loved the male teacher who used constant proximately, coach-student scenarios, think-pair-share, some form of drilling, repetition of concepts. He was very engaging, constantly on his feet and ready to explore new idea/activities. Some other useful examples throughout the video were the use of maps, building a city with a coordinate system, writing math problems in words with corresponding steps, using a real-life sensor to physically transform graphs. ===

=== Lastly, Liz and I were assigned a lesson plan which we would have to present the following week. We needed to use the Ontario Math Curriculum Wiki to create a lesson plan for a Grade 10 Mathematical Principles class. VERY EXCITED!!!! ===