As I think about next year and the years to come as I grow as a teacher I have thought a lot about what I think math instruction should look like. I think that individualizing high level thinking tasks for each child is extremely important. I don't want to just give any high level task to any student. I want it to make sense for their personal development. I want my math classroom to be very hands on. I want to each young children. I want them to measure things around the room, weigh different objects, count objects they need to count--I want it to be meaningful to the children; I don't want it to just be math because I have to teach the common core standards. I want my students to be able to think about each math task and allow themselves to think about it in ways that makes sense to them. I don't want to teach the students procedures; I want to teach them to problem solve in ways that makes sense to them. I also really value math discussion and allowing the children to learn from each other. By sharing their thoughts, they might find another way they want to try or they might just expand their ways of thinking about mathematics. Both of these are so important for children. I really hope that I am supported by my administration to do this. I do feel that I have a lot of information to share about the importance of high level math tasks and can't wait to try this out next year!
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When you implement this concepts and tools in your classroom, what do you think your classroom will look like? What do you see yourself doing? What do you see your students doing? What kind of work do you see them producing?
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