I am doing my practicum prep for the three weeks of December that I'm going to be teaching. I am prepping to do something radical.
I'm prepping to fail. I'm prepping to fail because I want to be great. Wait. What? Yeah, that's right. I'm prepping to fail because I want to be great. I want to try something that is pretty radically different than the students have had before. It's a totally different way of teaching and learning and understanding. It's from the alignment of Standards Based Grading genuises like Dan Meyer, Mathy McMatherson, and my own real life mentor Jeremy Inscho. They have this (not so radical) concept that if you break math down into it's simple bits and allow students to self pace through them, while teaching mini-lessons for comprehension and new concepts, students will take charge of their own learning and get through the material with deeper understanding and a drive to succeed. But. It requires a lot of up-front work from the teacher. You can't just crack open your textbook and fly at her each day. You need to have the materials and Wall Of Remediation set up so you aren't back and forth, printing, running around, and scrambling to teach older concepts. This is what I'm prepping to fail on. I want to set this up and get it going, but it means I need to have space and time and take LOTS of notes on what is failing so I can fix it and make things smooth. Do you prep to fail in your teaching?
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