Best practices in education is the idea that those involved in the field of education continually do professional research to better the ways that they do education. There are many different topics when addressing the thought of best practices in education. A few of the topics that i found through the NEA Website that I really think are important to our topic of math are listed below:
All three of these topics are brought out in detail in their links. I truly believe that PBL, Peer tutoring, and Universal Design are three things that can be very beneficial for learning in the classroom. Project based learning is great for math because it forces students and teachers to make and have math be applicable and not just computing. Also, the need for universal design in math and all of education is pretty apparent to me... Making sure that we all can have the same base of information that we need to teach is important, this way we know how to meet the standards and also have the opportunity to reach those standards in our own ways. Finally, peer tutoring is an excellent tool for mathematics. When you have a classroom full of students with a gamete of learning potentials, peer tutoring is a chance to pair your stronger students with those who struggle more with the material so those who understand it better continue to learn while teaching the others, while those who struggle get a chance to have some one on one instruction.
As we proceed to take an in depth look at the MS math standards, you will have many opportunities to experiment with the strategies embedded in your above list of best practices. THanks for sharing.
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