TA Ch. 2: Establish Mathematics Goals to Focus Learning
Ch. 2: Establish Mathematical Goals to Focus Learning
Summary: Learning goals are the foundation for instruction, activities, and guiding students. Teachers set goals for their students and base their teaching off reaching those goals. In order to establish and reach goals, teachers need to implement tasks that promote reasoning and problem solving. Problem solving is a skill that students must learn in order to reach content knowledge. Posing purposeful questions is also important. Teachers ask questions that guide students towards the learning goals. Conceptual understanding comes from practice. During practice, teachers need to support productive struggle. Students learn better when they work through the problems and questions posed to them at a deeper level than the surface. Students need to make connections to the content and form representations of it. It is also important to use evidence of student thinking when working towards goals. Teachers change their instruction and methods based on how the students are doing.
Impact on Future Teaching: In my future classroom, I know I will have goals for my students. It is important that students be aware of the goals set for them and that I support them in reaching them. I will need to make adjustments to my lessons, activities, and approaches based on the students in my classroom.
2 Questions:
1. Should goals ever be changed? Or should the way you try to reach them change?
2. How do you measure students reaching a goal? Does it need to be quantified?
Summary: Learning goals are the foundation for instruction, activities, and guiding students. Teachers set goals for their students and base their teaching off reaching those goals. In order to establish and reach goals, teachers need to implement tasks that promote reasoning and problem solving. Problem solving is a skill that students must learn in order to reach content knowledge. Posing purposeful questions is also important. Teachers ask questions that guide students towards the learning goals. Conceptual understanding comes from practice. During practice, teachers need to support productive struggle. Students learn better when they work through the problems and questions posed to them at a deeper level than the surface. Students need to make connections to the content and form representations of it. It is also important to use evidence of student thinking when working towards goals. Teachers change their instruction and methods based on how the students are doing.
Impact on Future Teaching: In my future classroom, I know I will have goals for my students. It is important that students be aware of the goals set for them and that I support them in reaching them. I will need to make adjustments to my lessons, activities, and approaches based on the students in my classroom.
2 Questions:
1. Should goals ever be changed? Or should the way you try to reach them change?
2. How do you measure students reaching a goal? Does it need to be quantified?
ReplyDeleteDarby,
Your goals will probably not changed, as they are based on the Standards. What might change is how you get your students to reach those goals. Most goals will be measured, as they contribute to student grades. Thanks!