Mr. Moreno's Growth Mindset
Assessment & Activities
Jose Moreno
Introduction
The pedagogical content knowledge (PCK), the organization of the knowledge, and how to teach Math is very important to be successful as a teacher. Especially, on the title I Middle Schools virtual students. Teachers need to know the potential of each student. On virtual learning, the focus in online teaching became more centered on how the course is structured, in particular, the teaching materials used. It is important to be aware of common misconceptions and the importance of encouraging and teaching specific self–regulated behavior to the students to catalyze any change to be successful. Receive frequently feedback through conversation or survey from learners is relevant to refine the lessons.
Desired Results
Learners will be able to:
- Reflect on the process of learning and outcome when understand and solve one-step equations or inequalities
-Make connections with real-life and collaborate with the group by using the learner's own experiences and knowledge.
-Research independently to investigate more deeply the concepts of the unit or clarify their questions.
-Evaluate math sources to increase the knowledge.
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Learning Goals
- Learners will analyze and reflect critically on the importance of learning one-step equations and inequalities as a base component for their academic future.
- Learners will research and evaluate math resources to clarify their questions about equations and inequalities.
- Learners will analyze real word problems and connect them with their own environment experiences to develop their skills with practice.
-Students will create their outcome objective of the unit that they feel is the most relevant to them as a learner and share with the group to increase the collaboration and communication skills.
-Learners will develop a time management plan and organization skills to be successful in online classes.
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Add, subtract, multiply, and divide one-step equations or inequalities are new topics for 6th grades students. It is very important that learners can visualize the concepts and connect with examples of their lives. Videos and daily teaching reinforcement and review the concepts through mini-lessons, warm-up, guiding practice, check for understanding, collaborative work, and exit ticket are the best way to accomplish the goals with 80 % accuracy.
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Regular observations, collaborative work, and review concepts on one-step equations and inequalities with formal and informal quizzes and assessments can corroborate where learners need more support. For example on the January 29th, 2021 assessment is evident that students need more support and clarification on question #5 (one-step equation with negative numbers multiplication). While they are master on questions #2 and #3 (one-step equations with addition and subtraction)
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With this course of instruct design online learning, Teacher discovery every day and on each lecture the importance of examining the TPACK (Technological pedagogical content knowledge) framework that online learners facilitators need to combine for successful education technology integration. I think students need more simple and explicit directions that they can follow easily and more cohesive between the visual/practical material that increase the learners' confidence to master the new math topic. Students need more visual support and more practice on the same skill to internalize the differences of the process of solving a word problem when multiplication, add/subtract, or division on one-step equations and inequalities.
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Learning Objective, expectations for the lesson, resources, and activities
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Guiding Activities GoFormative (January 25 to 29, 2021)
Monday January 25, Warm Up
https://goformative.com/formatives/600e3e012d73836c7196bced code: AHJLAH
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Monday January 25, Check for undestanding
https://goformative.com/formatives/600e3e86055c443dcb438340/results code V57JXW
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Monday January 25, Exit ticket
https://goformative.com/formatives/600e3ed304aab06c044541e0/results code Z38FDC
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Tuesday January 26, Warm Up
https://goformative.com/formatives/600e3e2104aab06c04454184/results code LURZ2M
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Tuesday January 26, Check for undestanding
https://goformative.com/formatives/600e3e97d77789f7daf4d136/results code 6BJDYB
Tuesday January 26, Exit ticket
https://goformative.com/formatives/600e3ee6d77789f7daf4d149/results code ZE9C59
Wednesday January 27, Warm Up
https://goformative.com/formatives/600e3e2f2d73836c7196bd04/results code CNEZET
Wednesday January 27, Check for undestanding
https://goformative.com/formatives/600e3ea3cf7ca8b304f5b5b1/results code 2KCTZN
Wednesday January 27, Exit ticket https://goformative.com/formatives/600e3f3700fa53d0fcd21bbb/results code ZHNSSA
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Thursday January 28, Warm Up
https://goformative.com/formatives/600e3e3d3a4273db91e3b87e/results code TW679M
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Thursday January 28, Check for undestanding
https://goformative.com/formatives/600e3eb02cc9ab98808fd809/results code VSSVD2
Thursday January 28, Exit ticket
https://goformative.com/formatives/600e3f43386a5ea120b4d6de/results code 2WNJHR
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Friday January 29, Warm Up
https://goformative.com/formatives/600e3e51baad3b40529c6145/results code BGBVAK
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Assessment Friday, January 29, 2021
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ePortfolio:
https://josemoreno29.wixsite.com/dvmuls/edld-5318
Learning Goals
1) Learners will analyze and reflect critically about the importance of learning one step equations and inequalities as a base component for their academic future.
2) Learners will research and evaluate math resources to clarify their questions about equations and inequalities.
3) Learners will analyze real word problems and connect them with their own environment experiences to develop their skills with practice.
4) Students will create their outcome objective of the unit that they feel is the most relevant to them as a learner and share with the group to increase the collaboration and communication skills.
5) Learners will develop a time management plan and organization skills to be successful in online classes.
Audience
I have 94 math 6th-grade students at Spring Oaks Middle School; 48 face to face and 46 in a hybrid learning environment. My teaching style is based on constructivism and connectivism theories for Pre–AP students with lest percentage of the other theories. While, with the low academic and math lab students the percentage of behaviorism and cognitivism learning theories increase, depending on the necessity of each student, according to the data.
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They have 24 hours 1:1 chrome books computers with hot spot Wi-Fi from the district to access the assignments anytime, anywhere. Learners access the assignment through the Itslearning platform with GoFormative, ixl.com, and google embedded. This is a public Title I School with 88% Hispanic. Collectively, 82% of the students come from economically disadvantage families, 81 % of them are at-risk students, and 42% of them have limited English proficiency. These percentages highlight the adverse economic risk factors and support academic correlations.
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The range of virtual students’ disengagement was from 25 % to 52 % with the highest percentage on 8th-grade students compared to 6th graders. Most virtual teachers struggled to engage students with the same care and effectiveness they were used to when teaching face to face.
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The school smart goal for math is at the end of the school year, 80% of all students will be at the Approaches achievement level, 38% of all students will be at the Meets achievement level, and 17% of all students will be at the master Achievement level on the Math STAAR test.
Material list: describe in LMS (videos, assignments sheets, quizzes, activities, graphics, photos, etc.)
Weekly
-Assorted resources: Learners have the option to choose the resources from videos or text to help them understand the concepts or answer their questions.
-Itslearning platform: where students access the zoom to ask a question or understand the process or strategies with the learner facilitator and then the assignments on GoFormative and google doc.
-GoFormative: it is a web-app that gives learners live assignments and allow teachers to do quick adjustments and monitor students learning, and where the student can show the process to solve math problems.
-GoGuardian: it is software that helps teachers better understand their online learners.
-Flipgrid Link: Used for students to create their videos to collaborate, clarifying or discuss a topic.
-www.ixl.com: it is a web side with practice math skills with tracking on the learners’ progress.
-Texas Go Math 6: it is an online book where learners can review concepts or research any topic with the grade level.
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References:
Archambault, L., & Crippen, K., (2016) Examining TPACK Among K-12 Online Distance Educators in the United states. Cite Journal. Vol 9, issue 1-09. Retrieved from https://citejournal.org/volume-9/issue-1-09/general/examining-tpack-among-k-12-online-distance-educators-in-the-united-states/
Bates, A., (2015) Teaching in a Digital Age: Guidelines for designing teaching and learning. Retrieved from https://opentextbc.ca/teachinginadigitalage/part/chapter-1-fundamental-change-in-education/
McTighe, J., & Seif, E., (2003, April 30) A Summary of Underlying Theory and Research Base for Understanding by Design. Retrieved from http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.554.5606&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Morrison, D. (2013, Dec 9) How to Design an Excellent Online Coruse. Retrieved from https://onlinelearninginsights.wordpress.com/2013/12/09/how-to-design-an-excellent-online-course/
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