"Letting Go" so our students can learn may sound strange or does it? After many sleepless nights working on the lesson plan and then having to refine it and reflect on it, I have started to understand what task lies ahead. It is all about how we engineer the lesson so "letting go" will be a planned activity. This activity is what the students need so they can develop the understanding they need and we want them to have so we all can move on. I also think "letting go" refers to us letting go of the algorithms and prior knowledge we are so attached to. I see this as a method for me to attain a new understanding of this new math. I am trying to put myself in the students role in class so I can begin this journey.
And the journey continues!
2 comments:
BINGO! You said it perfectly Millard. Task engineering is so important. If the task is not what it should be, you can't let go or the students will feel like they are drowning. Letting go of how we were taught is so hard, too.
I agree with you 100%. I think the right plan will allow us to let go.I also think being a student again allows us to see what it feels like to be given instruction and we should use the student experience to guide us as we enter the classroom as instructors.
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