Pedagogy

__Teaching Strategies:__ __Sample Lesson Plan:__
 * Fermi-problems
 * a multi-step problem that can be solved in a variety of ways, and whose solution requires the estimation of key pieces of information
 * What teachers are looking for?
 * The process to solve the problem
 * Make sure students follow the right rule
 * Solving Fermi Problems
 * At first might appear not to have an answer, initial response may be “I need more information” or “there is no enough information"
 * Many different ways to solve, be creative, use necessary tools
 * Will team and share
 * Example:
 * What if Lake Ontario was a giant cup of hot chocolate? How many regular sized marshmallows would it take to cover the surface?
 * Technology
 * Hands on
 * Hands on activities such as manipulative, online GeoBoard, hands on experiment for volume of cylinder and cone
 * Relevant- problems needed in the real world
 * For example, if triangle is discussed the lesson, ask students to think about the real life application: where they can find these triangles?
 * Collaboration-TPS: Think-Pair-Share -Group work
 * Ask students think on their own first
 * Pair with another student
 * Share with the whole group
 * Mind Maps
 * Excellent for brainstorming and abstract thinking, can help organize ideas in a neat and relevant way
 * Jigsaw
 * having students teaching each other
 * POE
 * Predict, observe, explain, or PVOE- predict, vote, observe, explain
 * PBL
 * Problem based learning
 * Inquiry based learning
 * Debates
 * Literacy
 * Concrete example for abstract problems, say video
 * Demonstration
 * Placemats/ drama/videos
 * Individual
 * Don't be hesitating to ask students to do individual work, different students have different learning styles, some of them don't like pair or group work, so in order to meet different students' need, assign them some individual work too. It's also a good opportunity to check every single student's understanding
 * Gallery Walk
 * Divide students into certain groups
 * Assign every group with a different topic to research on and post the chart on the wall
 * Ask different groups to go to the next chart (clockwise) and discuss and copy down other groups work
 * Keep rotating until all the groups walk to all the charts

__Teaching Philosophy:__
 * The teaching must be interesting and involving
 * The teaching also must make the knowledge relevant to students' life