learning. The school is also economically diverse. I did not run into any issues with this disparity because I provided all materials necessary to complete the lessons. Also, the students and their days’ parents have to work to be a part of this school so all students are somewhat more committed to learning because they know that their parents care about their scores. 21st Century Skills Students will be addressing the ideas of finance in great detail especially in the context of understanding what a negative number is versus a positive number. The ideas of debt/earning, and gaining/losing money will be used to represent numerical expressions in a verbal manner. Students will also be addressing the concepts of value- which value is worth more/worth less in a given context. Students will be working with health literacy through the examples of eating food results in gaining calories, which must then be lost through a certain amount of exercise. Critical thinking will be addressed through real-world examples that require the students to interpret meaning in context in order to set up expressions as well as be able to defend their position on an answer or why they may have set a problem up in a certain way. Technology Unfortunately the classroom that I was interning in did not have ready access to technology. The teacher has an overhead digital projector that does not work well and is really poorly located in the room. There is a class set of calculators but the unit that I taught was designed to be calulator inactive. Critical Thinking/ Problem Solving
learning. The school is also economically diverse. I did not run into any issues with this disparity because I provided all materials necessary to complete the days’ lessons. Also, the students and their parents have to work to be a part of this school so all students are somewhat more committed to learning because they know that their parents care about their scores. 21st Century Skills Students will be addressing the ideas of finance in great detail especially in the context of understanding what a negative number is versus a positive number. The ideas of debt/earning, and gaining/losing money will be used to represent numerical expressions in a verbal manner. Students will also be addressing the concepts of value- which value is worth more/worth less in a given context. Students will be working with health literacy through the examples of eating food results in gaining calories, which must then be lost through a certain amount of exercise. Critical thinking will be addressed through real-world examples that require the students to interpret meaning in context in order to set up expressions as well as be able to defend their position on an answer or why they may have set a problem up in a certain way. Technology Unfortunately the classroom that I was interning in did not have ready access to technology. The teacher has an overhead digital projector that does not work well and is really poorly located in the room. There is a class set of calculators but the unit that I taught was designed to be calulator inactive. Critical Thinking/ Problem Solving
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