Friday, March 8, 2013
Action Research Question
How, or in what ways, does homework affect student achievement in the secondary mathematics classroom?
My Profile
Why I love teaching:
I love teaching because it is fun. It's a great feeling to come to work everyday and know that, for the most part, you are going to have fun. The other fun part about teaching is the challenge. You never know from year to year, day to day, even class period to class period, what kind of experience you are going to get. I am hopeful that my M.Ed. experience will give me new ideas on how to motivate my students, and ways to keep myself motivated as well.
Action Research Interest:
One area I would like to focus on through my M.Ed. experience is how to make homework more meaningful for my students and myself. I have tried different ways of assigning and assessing homework over the years, but have yet to find a method that I really like, and gives my students and me the feedback I would like. I am hopeful that over the course of the program I can find a way to assign, assess, and collect homework that is more helpful to my students and more informative for me.
Area of Developing Expertise:
One area that I would like to improve is in finding new ways to connect with my students who struggle with math. Every term there is always at least one student who has had a poor math experience, perhaps due in part to low math skills. I would like to find new and different ways to reach those students that I have not tried before. I know that solving all my students math struggles is a pretty lofty goal, but I would like to at least develop new and different ways to reach those students so that they can see at least some success in a class that maybe they have not had much success with in the past.
I love teaching because it is fun. It's a great feeling to come to work everyday and know that, for the most part, you are going to have fun. The other fun part about teaching is the challenge. You never know from year to year, day to day, even class period to class period, what kind of experience you are going to get. I am hopeful that my M.Ed. experience will give me new ideas on how to motivate my students, and ways to keep myself motivated as well.
Action Research Interest:
One area I would like to focus on through my M.Ed. experience is how to make homework more meaningful for my students and myself. I have tried different ways of assigning and assessing homework over the years, but have yet to find a method that I really like, and gives my students and me the feedback I would like. I am hopeful that over the course of the program I can find a way to assign, assess, and collect homework that is more helpful to my students and more informative for me.
Area of Developing Expertise:
One area that I would like to improve is in finding new ways to connect with my students who struggle with math. Every term there is always at least one student who has had a poor math experience, perhaps due in part to low math skills. I would like to find new and different ways to reach those students that I have not tried before. I know that solving all my students math struggles is a pretty lofty goal, but I would like to at least develop new and different ways to reach those students so that they can see at least some success in a class that maybe they have not had much success with in the past.
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