One meaningful thing I learned in the process of creating this unit
With the guidance, experience and dedication of Professor Rowe I learned how to plan an authentic lessons using different strategies, and integrating technology. I focused especially in different kinds of assessment. I learned how to handcraft the different kinds of assessment I learned in class and how to implement them in my lesson to tie them well with my content and different needs of students. Overall, I enjoyed my field experience, especially when I delivered my lesson to the fourth grade class at Kinyon Elementary. This class prepared me to be a better educator. One meaningful thing I learned in the process of creating this unit is that knowledge is always evolving. I would plan to present my symmetry in a particular way, and as I researched I came across another way that might be better. I don’t know how many times I revisited my first lesson. I wish I had more time for the rest!
I have been always fascinated by transformation geometry and more specifically by the beauty and the stability of symmetry. The application of symmetry is everywhere. It is our job as educators to help our students to explore it, identify it, manipulate with it, to create a good background for a great deal later in math, such as analytical geometry. In this unit the main focus is the symmetry and its application in real life. Symmetry is part of each child’s environment both in math and also in their life.
As a teacher I will do my best to teach all students in a way that will help the student to excel beyond the world’s expectations. I believe that if we, as teachers, figure out how our children learn best then we can, at the very least, help guide parents at home with an understanding of why one child is so different from the other. School lessons can include adaptations to help teach more than the middle of the road students. Simple things like giving a student more time to complete an assignments, repeating the directions for ELL Speakers, displaying vocabulary words can be incorporated easily for students; teaching with visuals using technology will help students to make content more understandable. This may involve me taking more classes or asking peers for help but I believe that each and every child is worth it. I will be a teacher that will think outside of the box and understand that not all children learn the same and adjust my classroom accordingly.