Unit Plan Draft
The following link contains my unit plan and three lesson plans:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1kWwFx0oTyfaoRvQcpy5StjvkYe9xtdxc
The lesson plan 7.1 addresses the pedagogical element regarding to
f) Telling only what is arbitrary, and having students work on what is logically 'necessary'
and 7.a will have questions and word problems relating to
b) social/environmental justice
e) Open-ended problem solving in groups at vertical erasable surfaces (“thinking classroom”)
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1kWwFx0oTyfaoRvQcpy5StjvkYe9xtdxc
The lesson plan 7.1 addresses the pedagogical element regarding to
f) Telling only what is arbitrary, and having students work on what is logically 'necessary'
and 7.a will have questions and word problems relating to
b) social/environmental justice
e) Open-ended problem solving in groups at vertical erasable surfaces (“thinking classroom”)
Good start, Vincent! Some starting comments for revisions for your second draft:
ReplyDelete(1) Please include the problems you plan to use for each class and for the project, as separate sheets. (2) Each lesson plan should have a different rationale (and goals/ aims/ teaching intentions) connected with that lesson. (3) The presentation day lesson plan is not OK as one of your three lesson plans. You've just said "students will present projects" (very much like saying "students will write unit test") -- and I don't see any evidence of your innovative teaching in this description. Please choose a different lesson to describe here! (4) Please commit to the pedagogy you really plan to use. If you say that students will work individually or in groups, on vertical erasable surfaces or just on paper, it's extremely likely that everyone will default to the individual, paper-and-pencil modality, and while that may be an OK choice, it is not especially innovative, and supports the same kinds of exclusions that have been part of math education for more than a century. (5) The project should not just be 'more of the same' typical textbook algorithm-applying exercises -- but I will probably understand what you are planning better once I see the actual puzzles and problems you are proposing.
Hope this is helpful, and that your peer reading and suggestions today will be fruitful!
This was a well laid out plan. I think that 2 days for presentations might be too much, so you may want a back up for the second day in your pocket. The project is great at getting students to communicate with math and to think critically.
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