Reading thorough my old posts I have written during this term, I realized something interesting. When I read articles and had to write reflections on them, I found them quite interesting but did not really reinforce those thoughts in myself. I thought they all had great ideas, but I did not pay attention afterwards. As I worked on various assignments for the course, including the math art project, two micro teaching lessons, and the final unit plan, and as I experienced many different teaching philosophies and styles of other peer TC's, I gradually became more adaptable to accept and change. Like other courses that have emphasized diversity in the classroom, the EDCP 342 course has helped me to accept others' opinions and behaviours. I liked how we had chances to experience different aspects of teaching almost every class. The class activity where we discussed how formation of desks affects students' learning was very inspiring. It allowed me to think about other possible...
EDCP 342A Unit planning Yeni Yoo St. John’s School, Math 8 Ratios, Rates, and Percentages Preplanning questions: (1) Why do we teach this unit to secondary school students? This unit explores the concepts of ratios, rates, and percentages. The unit focuses on some of the most essential mathematical skills that students could apply in their everyday lives. Students will learn to compare ratios, find equivalent ratios, do scale drawings, convert between percents, fractions, and decimals, etc. Such mathematical skills will be strongly needed in students’ future lives and will enable students to evaluate important factors more precisely and make more reasoned decisions. Students will find such mathematical skills interesting and useful as they explore more and more real-world applications where they could connect the mathematical concepts and demonstrate their knowledge through problem solving. (2) A mathematics project conne...