Meeting The Standards
Standard 1
a. Promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness
The BowdoinMath YouTube channel met this standard in a variety of ways. The use of mini-lessons to differentiate instruction supported students of all levels. As the teacher, I modeled an innovative learning environment where students could progress through a unit at their own pace with the help of short video lessons.
Allowing students to "speak math" is one of the best methods to help them to fully integrate and understand how concepts work together. Students created videos both to show proficiency of a concept and also to provide further help for students who had not yet reached proficiency. This collaborative support promoted students to work together and learn to understand the different strategies peers used to solve a math problem.
Standard 1
d. Model collaborative knowledge construction by engaging in learning with students, colleagues, and others in face-to-face and virtual environments
The second video on the right was completed by a math peer tutor in our classroom. Providing one-on-one support to students was a priority for the peer tutors. Their primary focus was on the group of students in the classroom at the time, but they also provided a lot of supplementary help and support videos for my students in other class periods by posting their videos to YouTube.