For my first placement of Student Teaching in Bradford, PA my teacher asked me to plan out an entire unit that I would be teaching throughout my placement. The Unit that I planned was Chapter 5, Polynomials, for the Algebra 2 classroom. For this I had to read the textbook that is used at Bradford and look at all of the key topics of polynomials to then break the chapter into lessons and plan how long each learning segment would take to complete in the classroom. Even though I had to change my unit plan throughout my placement this still demonstrated my understanding of different concepts, and structures in the Mathematical field.
In my first placement in Bradford I was responsible for all of Chapter 5 lessons. During my lessons where I taught through direct instruction I was required to have class notes. Since I had both student online and in person I decided to make my notes through word into a pdf that I could then project on the screen in the classroom and share my screen online. This method allowed me to fill in the notes during my lesson and make it accessible for both in person and online students to take notes. In order to write these notes out for lesson I had to read the information I was going to teach that day and make the notes in a way that I could talk through during the lesson and make it easy for students to follow along and copy notes. One lesson I taught using these class notes was on multiplicity and relative maximums and minimums. I wrote these notes so that students could look at the graphs and we could talk through how we can find the multiplicity of a graph and where the relative minimums and maximums would be. These class notes demonstrate my understanding of concepts, structure, and inquiry of Mathematics because I had to understand the material to then be able to make notes that I could later fill in during class in a way that helped students learn and understand the material being taught.
During my Field Block 1 placement in Jamestown high school I was asked to make video lessons for my algebra class when schools were shut down at the beginning of the pandemic. These video lessons made for students to be able to continue their math curriculum while still being away from school. With the video lessons I required students to fill out a google quiz based on the video lesson so I was able to check for understanding. One video lesson I made was on the topic of Domain and Range and key terms about Domain and Range. This demonstrates my content knowledge on Mathematical concepts and even though students were not in school trying to engage learners with a google quiz after the video lesson.
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