Curriculum Plan Reflection

Although this project was very intense, I really learned a lot and enjoyed completing it. This is something I have to get used to doing because I will some day be teaching math in my own classroom and have to plan out exactly what I will be teaching. For me, the most difficult part of this project was getting started and figuring out what we were going to teach and when we were going to teach it. We decided to split it up into four 9-week quarters. For each grade level, there were 5 standards, so we decided to teach 1 or 2 standards per quarter and it ended out working very well. I was fun trying to find different activities for my domain and also the semester long projects. It was more difficult to come up with semester long projects for the older grades because they cover so much material throughout the semester and it was hard to incorporate all of the standards. Getting the video to work and getting it right on the first try was very stressful. We were having technology troubles with iMovie so we had to use another program and that added unnecessary stress to the project. I thought all 4 of us worked really fairly together throughout the entire project of planning, creating projects, and filming the video. The work load fell more on a couple of us, but in the end it all worked out! I liked the opportunity we had to watch all three groups' videos. I thought it was interesting how different each of the groups interpreted the assignment. All three of the presentations were very different, but they all got the point across! Out of all the projects, this was the most beneficial because once we begin teaching, we have to know how to create a yearly, quarterly, and then more detailed plan for our curriculum.