Chapter 1: Part 3 - Unit Plan Reflection

One of the biggest takeaways that I am having from this Unit Plan is that it is crucial to see what we need to do for the future of the unit, and having some ideas of what you want to do for the unit can help out immensely, especially when you are given the test ahead of time and can see exactly the things that they need to work on are going to be.

From my unit plan of Systems of Inequalities, it's nice to come up with a broad idea of what needs to be developed throughout the unit and thinking of ideas of how someone would want to do this. I was looking kind of a layout of how the unit should be done that was given to me by my CT and I have followed that quite a bit. It's nice seeing that someone has put out a layout of how the unit needs to look about, but the teachers' move is to see how I can make that unit as engaging as possible for the kids and how to put them to the test and make them critical thinkers during this unit. I have a general idea of how I want to complete this unit, but I still need to get into the nitty gritty of how I want to attack the unit. This plan has definitely helped layout the groundwork for what I will need to be doing in the future lessons.

Also, thinking about some common misconceptions that I had from the unit, when I was first taught about inequalities, I never understood why when we multiply or divide by a negative number, that the sign has to flip. That, I know, will be a misconception for kids because if I had it when I was first learning about it, chances are pretty high that at least one other person in the room will have that thought. This was another huge takeaway that I needed to think about as math is hard for a lot of students and creates a lot of anxiety around it as well. That's why I hope that I can create a comfortable space when I have my own classroom and how I address things will be at the same level as the students and helping them will be hopefully be as similar as a student helping another student.