What I need to do on the first day:
- Discuss general expectations and class rules
- Re-introduce myself
- Homework/attendance policies (learn students’ names)
- Electronic devices and music
- (Structure of units? – less relevant since I will be starting with a review)
Some of my goals and/or things I want to experiment with on the long practicum and beyond:
- Whiteboard space
- Academic events (due dates, test dates, general dates for school events)
- Where and when they can find me (Math Help Club, lunch/after school)
- (?) Weekly challenge questions (optional problems given out weekly where students can work on them during homework time/lunch/after school (granting bonus marks to those who were able to solve them?)
- Thinking classroom
- Guided inquiry activities that has tie-ins with curricular and content competencies
- Use of vertical non-permanent surfaces & team-based/collaborative learning
- Technology
- Blogs for homework/notes/worksheets/notices/solutions
- Kahoot (Informal formative assessment)
- Desmos/Geogebra
- Assessment
- Rubric-based self-assessments
- Formal formative assessments with exit slips
- Feedback for both formative and summative assessments
- Electronic grading tools
- Assessment alternatives to testing
- Professional development
- Regularly (ideally weekly) updates to this blog
- Making notes and revisions to lesson plans after they are done
- Working with librarian for resources
- ELL strategies
- Inclusive & safe learning environment (LGBT communities, Indigenous students, students with IEP)
- Extracurricular
- Math Help/Homework Club
- Japan Club
- School events
Currently am both nervous and exited to be back in the classroom with the students.