FRIT 7234

In California students are required to take a government course in the Fall of their senior year and an economics course in Spring, unless their are taking IB history courses. All of my mini lessons are on economics specifically focusing on unemployment; the different types, how to calculate it, the impact it has on countries and lastly inflation and deflation. Throughout this unit students will be assigned a country that they will be focusing on and they will do different assignments on. For this weeks post I wanted to reflect about the assessment I will be using for the inflation lesson.  The information fluency component students will focus on will be Present ~ how they can communicate their research. Students will present their research and data using an infographic, they will also be required to cite their sources.  The level of the Digital Bloom's Taxonomy I'm torn between two: analyzing, because they are looking at the data for their specific country and creating a chart

Part 1: I tell my students and coworkers often that education in California is way different than it was teaching in Georgia. Everything from how teachers go about becoming a teacher, to the set up of schools and even the way we teach. On of the biggest change for me was learning to use the standards as a guide and that's it as compared to when I taught in Georgia the standards were like the Bible there was no deviating from them.  For me how I'd define Inquiry Based Learning is much like I teach my class (example below) but basically the students are advised of the main (required) topic - think of it like the umbrella and then they help pick/decide what we learn under that topic (the rain drops). Often times this and does vary from class to class because each set of students is different. Once the topics are picked and discussed we work as a class to come up with a research question or questions that we want to learn about. Then I take the research questions and plan the lesso

Until I went through this week's readings I really thought I had a growth mindset but now I'm thinking that I've been fooling myself all along, I'm totally a fixed mindset. The funny thing about it is in my 9th grade history class I use material from Dr. Dweck in our psychology unit. I really focus a lot on telling my students that they can improve through practice and effort, yet I'm not practicing that myself. I guess over time I just got in the habit of teaching about growth mindset and I never really took the time to examine myself too closely.  I really liked The Power of belief video with Eduardo Briceno there were several ways it helped me to see ways I could personally adjust my own thoughts and actions. For example I've always had a really good memory some have even said photographic which came in handy when I memorizing dates, details and other random information for classes like history and english. However when it came to things like formulas and equ