490 & 450

Reflexction every two days on blog and sent to email

Resilience and thrive

Churchill!

Take responsibility on my documents

Haircut, dress, school website information (VSB, principal, whether it is a match)

Self intro, occ, ministry guideline, 

First day at 8, but every day if possible

School office sign in everyday

VP explanation of the school

Form: 

secondary TC form

Yellow: SA-math & mandarin

Green: FA

Rules/regulations

Daily schedule (bell schedule, block rotation, breaks)

Safety procedures

Admin office

Equipments, staff rooms, classrooms, names of school teachers, principals

School clubs & activities

Special program

Teacher blogs

Observe the detail how they do things

Understand your students as learners

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Math 8;

Math 9; locally developed adapted math 9;

Foundations of math 10 and precalculus 10; apprenticeship & workplace math 10

Foundations of math 11 (required for graduate); precalculus 11; apprenticeship & workplace 11;

Foundation 12; precalculus 12; A&W 12;

Calculus 12

AP math; IB math

PD day 1 with Jim

First day with Jim (retired math teacher in Churchill)

teaching mathematics is not about teaching math i learnt b/c what i learnt may not be the math they need in the future

make sure you engage your kids
the success depends on how i engage the kids

Textbook: Heise 

Oct 20 Mulgrave visit

I was the driver. Neil, Jessica, Breanna, Joyce were the passengers.

We arrived at 710. The meeting started at 800.

After the group meeting, our DP math teacher candidates went to Rm 180 and had a short conversation with 3 DP math teachers (Kayle, Micheal, Prior) and 1 MYP physics/math teacher. We were told about the big jump of difficulty levels from G10 extended to G11 math HL. It is also true that parents may be a factor of pushing students to study HL math. The class pace is fast for HL while the SL is ... Also fast...... We were shown a student's G12 SL term project using chi-square analysis and a lot of statistics knowledge. It was really astonishing when we told that all the statistics knowledge was taught in class. The teacher also mentioned that they have to teach extra-curriculum knowledge to students within insufficient amount of time.

At 910 we were in Rm 182, Dr. Frewin's math 12 HL class. The topic was derivatives. Students were asked to play a card game to match on-card information to different functions. By the way, the classroom was clean and tidy with several math artifacts.students were invited to play the card game on teacher's laptop, then to explain their work on the whiteboards on the two side walls. Frequently, the teacher recalled definitions of some math concepts as well as derivatives and average velocities. One can told that physics contents were introduced inthe class (and of course the students are taking physics 12 this year). Students were encouraged to express their thoughts and understandings at anytime of the class.

We were invited to watch a performance after this class.

The at 1100 we went back the Rm 182 and attended a math 10 class. Students were engaging but the class pace was slow. The topic was about tangent and started with slope. Graphical calculators were widely used and large amount of time was spent to explain how to use them. Kids have little knowledge about numbers as I was invited to explain why a decimal number cannot be a perfect root square of an integer.

Then we had a short break and attended a ToK class taught by the Vice Principal. Topic was about how knowledge was acknowledged through eight aspects: sense perceptions, 

Then it was the lunch time. Students were arranged to have lunches at different times.

At 1405 I had my last class visit in Rm 165 with Mrs. Chen. It was such a wonderful feeling to speak Chinese legally in classroom. Unfortunately there were only two students who took Mandarin as language B SL. They were struggling in this course as G10 Mandarin emphasized too much on listening and speaking, with limited skills in reading and writing. However, students can understand what I was talking (in mandarin) and respond in English. It is truly amazing that this communicating process improves their perceptions of Chinese culture.

Mulgrave is such a wonderful school that is only available to some families. Even though, it is wonderful, wordless to say.

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Certificate must be finished today

E-folio

Study skills

1) asking questions and wait for answers 

2) engagement: teaching is supposed to be a game

    don't embarrass students and talk about the issue after class

3) teach integrity

4) study sheet: summary (brain map, chart, diagram, etc), 

Delivery method: observe and record the teaching strategies used

Techniques: what strategies were used to check learning?

Talk 5 minutes to make notes

Search: record chart, Cornell note taking/Cornell margin

What to observe in the visit/practicum 

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Training program: first aid, etc

Government funding

Freedom of implementing policies among schools

490&450

In the news

What is Inquiry-based Learning?

Reflection #2 is to be a comment on your readings about Inquiry and your thoughts on the process as a teaching strategy. Because this is a  reflection about your perceptions of the topic, please discuss how you believe it will be manifested in your classroom or simply ask important questions that you need to be answered before you are able to understand and apply the process.

490 & 450

To do: 

Reflection

Goal file

Tool kit

Group feedback

Orgnized and time control

Preparation, role identification

Overview of the whole project

Rubric

A table

  Group work-roles.    Speed dating.    Read share.      Tool kit.           Teaching strategies.      

  Presentations-from group.                 Rubric.              Goal setting

  Interview.                  Blog.                 Reflections.       Projects.         Collaboration

  Skills.                        Challenges.       Ethos. 

Kids need to be listened to rather than to be told.  

Volkswagen Das sth...... Just be fined by the U.S. Government.