Week 6 Blog

a) Reflect on this week's tasks
b) Reflect on the online class session regarding teaching for an online high school.

a) This weeks tasks were a little more time consuming than I first thought they would be. Having never made a rubric for choosing lessons, it took me a while to decide what to make as the criteria. I think after I did this, it helped me realize what I need to include in lessons when I create them. I am glad that did this activity because it will help me as a future teacher. I am not sure if that was the overall goal of this activity, but I am certainly glad that it helped me realize this.

I found this week's reading interesting as well. I liked how it broke down the two different types of technology lessons. After reading them I arrived at the conclusion which type I would want to teach and which type of activities I have been taught. Surprisingly the type of lesson I want to teach and type of lesson I was usually taught differed. I was able to see which one reflects the teacher I want to be, and how it benefits my future students.


b) The online class this past week was extremely interesting to me. I never thought about an online high school math class. I am not sure if I would enjoy teaching one because I like the face to face interactions I have with the students. I don't think I would want to take an online math class as well. I enjoy being able to talk to the professor in person and meet in the classroom with the rest of the class. It takes away the social interaction between students, and I feel that this interaction is an important skill that students develop in the classroom. I know that a lot of these students are unable to attend classrooms because of their unique situations, but overall I do not think that I would want to take these types of classes everyday.

I did however, find it interesting the set up and procedures of the online math classes offered. I liked how the students were introduced to the different technologies used to help understanding. I think that aspect would be beneficial to the students in the class because it seems from my experience that students thrive when using technology because it is different and helps produce interest in the subject. I liked the website he showed us that dealt with a graphing calculator and the visual representations it allowed when changing sine and cosine graphs. You can do the same thing on graphing calculators, but I thought the website was pretty neat because it was something different.