Final Reflection

Looking through my blogs, I noticed some key themes. I see that we focused on different ways of structuring our classroom and facilitating student inquiry. I think the content we explored looked at Inquiry in two ways. First of all, we looked at it from a teacher perspective - how can we think outside of the grid on our teaching. How can we incorporate social justice, art or embodied practice into Math education that has traditionally not incorporated those things. We also took on the student perspective by reflecting on our own experiences of learning and by trying out new things and reflecting on what that experience was like.

One blog that stood out to me was the one on competition. This was a very eye-opening topic for me as I had not considered the harm of having competition so central to our teaching environments. I ended up doing my project for another class on how traditional grading practices are a competitive and colonial system. I think being curious about students' experience is so key.

A main part of this course was the project which I also learned from. I enjoyed looking into mindfulness practices and collaborating with Esther.

I cannot think of anything I would change about this course - maybe looking at even more different teaching styles could be interesting.

I think a key takeaway is that good teaching means continuing to be curious because students will continue to change and I want my teaching to be relevant and interesting.