Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Week 7: What do I need?

What do you, individually, still need to know and understand in order to tier (differentiate) a lesson of your own choosing?
First of all, let me start off by saying how much I enjoyed reading your thoughts on your blog. It's comforting to know that someone who has been teaching for the amount of time that you have still loves what they do. I hope that when I am that experienced of a teacher that I will be able to feel the way about teaching that you do!
What do I still need? Hmmmm... besides knowing more about what differentiation really IS, I think I need more tools. I'm thinking about my little tool bucket that we drew in class. As much as I love all the tools that I have right now, I still feel as though my bucket could use a little more. I want to know more about how to differentiate so that, when I am writing up my lesson plans, I will know how to tweak my lesson plans to make them more differentiatable (is that a word??).
Okay, I'm just going to say it. I WANT ANOTHER DIFFERENTIATION CLASS after this one! I don't think I've ever wanted more classes and more work, but this class doesn't even seem like a class because I enjoy it so much, and the work doesn't seem like work because, again, I enjoy it so much! I wish that we could have another class next semester with more differentiation. To me right now, differentiation means loving all of your students, but I learned in class that that's not what it means (...or is it?). I am still confused, but I learned in my Math Methods class that being confused is exciting! When you are confused, that means you are about to learn something... and I am about to learn what differentiation is!
I hope what I've said is an appropriate answer to the question you posted... I feel like I babbled and jumped around with my thoughts.
OH! And I NEED to go buy a morning meeting book! What is YOUR favorite morning meeting book???

1 comment:

  1. We're going to be trying to fill up buckets like crazy in the next two weeks! Hang on... I'm hoping to make this a fast ride! Differentiation does not exactly mean loving all of your students, but you absolutely CANNOT differentiate if you DON'T love your students. So you're on your way! I'm so glad you shared the insights about being confused as a good thing, and that it means you are just about to learn something. I really, really hope that's true, because there's a lot of confusion in our class! 4 points

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