Data Collection and reporting are essential tools for every teacher, regardless of subject matter and age, as it allows teachers to see where their students are at. For me specifically, wanting to teach high school math, this means recording students grades, not just for assignments and tests as a whole but on individual questions as well. This way I can see which questions are being the most consistently missed, by both the class as a whole and by individual students. Once I have this data, I can attempt to tailor the lessons better to each student.
My favorite part of looking at everyone's blogs is seeing all the different ways people think to apply the lessons we learned in class to our own teaching. An example of this is both in the question on Bloom's Taxonomy and the question prior to this. Every one of us has had different learning experiences and as thus have been affected differently in how we will teach. For example, when we had to come up wit the lesson for Bloom's Taxonomy, my mind went immediately to derivatives. However, when I later read other peoples posts, everyone had a different idea on how and when it could be directly implemented. Reading all of their thoughts gave me new ideas on how to improve what my lesson would have been.
The next technology-related skill I would like to learn would probably be how to use interactive whiteboards, such as SmartBoards. I feel like this would be a very useful to skill to have as they are being implemented more and more in schools everywhere. Thus, I find having this skill to be something important going forward. I definitely intend to go to the Tech Sandbox to learn about this as they are very knowledgeable about it and have boards there for me to practice with.
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