After reading this book, what are your plans for your classroom? Do you see an opportunity to start a genius hour or do you now have a goal of teaching an innovation class? Or are you thinking about some small steps that you can take to add more innovation into your classroom?
Just a reminder that this is the last post of the summer book group. I have enjoyed our summer of innovation discussion. I hope that you have generated some ideas to use in your classrooms. I would be happy to help if you need. Just let me know:-)
I will be taking small steps to incorporate innovation into my classes. I am going to try to do some brainstorming sessions in my Pre-calculus, Trig, and Geometry courses. This will help to get some ideas on what students are interested in doing. I would like to try the "genius minute" for bell ringers throughout the year. In Probability and Statistics, the goal is to have each student complete an innovation project. We will start the term with brainstorming and develop the projects as we move through each chapter. The plan is to spend a day or two each chapter working on the projects. When the chapters are finished, students will finish up the projects as their cumulative assessment for the course. I am still trying to figure out exactly how this is all going to work, but I am excited about trying this in the Prob/stats class. This class has the potential to be so much more than just learning about formulas.
ReplyDeleteI have enjoyed reading everyone's posts this summer. Thank you for sharing your ideas. School will be starting soon! Hope you have a great and innovative school year!
This book has sparked an interest and even if it is with small steps I wnt to find fun and interesting math activities/projects to add to my curriculum. Although a genius hour will not be feasible for my courses, I want to modify it and try to make it work. I liked Angy’s suggest earlier this summer about a “genius minute” through bellringers. So I want to see what I can come up with for bellringers that will motivate my students. The combination of Wettrick’s book and the book What Connected Educators Do Differently have also inspired me to use more social media with the students this year.
ReplyDeleteIn addition to encouraging teachers to experiment with innovation in their classrooms, I hope to add some innovation time to our advisory schedule. Our advisories meet twice a week for 30 minutes.
ReplyDeleteThroughout the year, I will continue to look for new ideas to help add innovation to our school day.
I have enjoyed this book study. Thanks for inviting me to participate with you all.
I am going to use my study skills class as an opportunity for the students to do a mini innovation project. I only get them for nine weeks so I am going to structure it to give them an opportunity to finish before the end of the 9 weeks. I just hope I give myself an opportunity to fail implementing this into my class. I hate failing and always tell the students that being prepared is half the battle. So I will let everyone know how it goes this 9 weeks. I would love for them to do something for the school or community. I can't wait to start school. Thanks for allowing me to join in on the conversation. I really enjoyed to reading everyones comments being a new teacher. I am just loved taking it all in.
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