Last night

Last night of class, I thought it went very well. I was excited to see the rest of the tip papers. We did several things tonight. We finished up our talks on the TWS, the tip papers and we received our letters that we wrote on the 2nd week of class. It is always cool to see what I wrote weeks ago and come back to it several weeks later and see what I thought and how my thoughts changed. I have been doing this for a few years by leaving a letter to myself at my grandparents in St. Louis so I only see this once every 2-3 years.
    I thought that the remaining tip projects were very neat and engaging. I like the "leo" test, can't remember what it's called off the top of my head. I like the idea of being able to track students strength and weaknesses. I see many different ways of doing this with my future math classes. I could work on different levels of blooms, different concepts and so many other ways. I thought the other's were equally great, I just can't remember them off the top of my head.

Tip Paper

This week we worked on the tips papers in class, I started off using my six hat methods. It was okay. The more I thought about topic the less I became attached to the idea. It seemed like a really cool idea at first, but after reading and reading the text and finding more information on the web the less I cared about it. I like the idea how it used different levels of Bloom's taxonomy during lesson, but in a high school math class, unless we are doing something different than the norm I think it would be tough to incorporate it.
    Several other people presented their tips and a lot of them sounded really neat! The song in the classroom idea really sounded cool, I know that there is a big shift to make things more modern and relevant, and I think this would take care of it. The 3-2-1 sounded really good for students to help summarize the idea about a particular book or concept. I think there are several good ones that came out of this, and I'm excited to try these out in the future.