Q:How do you know students understand key points of your content?
A:Instead of only asking them skill based questions, I ask them to explain the meaning of what we are doing? Why do we do what we do? How were these rules invented?
Q: What skills/understandings do students need to know about learning your specific subject?
A: I want students to know that math didn't come out of thin air. It is a language that was created for explaining things that happen all around us. Therefore, if they can really learn the basics of this language then they can build off of that.
Q: How are you teaching this in your class right now?
A: Well I verbalize a lot of what I wrote, and when I teach new ideas/concepts I try to explain where it comes from (relating it to prior knowledge).
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If you allow me Chrisel, I would like to comment on your first question.
I agree with you on the matter of going deeper and try that our students understand the meaning, the concepts, what is behind of what we are teaching. And I would like to add that, according to what I've been reading/studying/reviewing with my coach in our seminars, that we need to look also at how we are reaching those students with learning differences, those with special needs.
I have made a couple of readings on the subject and have had some interesting conversations with my coach on the subject, and seems it is a very wide, but important subject.
Thank you Chrisel for your post and I hope to keep in touch with you.
Take care,
Erick
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