Playing Catch Up by Michael Jorgensen https://padlet.com/mjorgensen6/p7rajw8z8atd en-us 2019-01-15 21:01:16 UTC 2024-11-21 16:20:33 UTC hello@padlet.com Intro: mjorgensen6 https://padlet.com/mjorgensen6/p7rajw8z8atd/wish/321006228 I'm Michael and I currently teach at a small private semester school in Idaho, called the Alzar School. I'm taking this course to improve my teaching and to make it easier to get a teaching job elsewhere sometime in the future, perhaps a public school. ]]> 2019-01-15 21:03:24 UTC https://padlet.com/mjorgensen6/p7rajw8z8atd/wish/321006228 Things I like to do... mjorgensen6 https://padlet.com/mjorgensen6/p7rajw8z8atd/wish/321009435 The used bookstore in Cascade is open 11-2pm Thu-Saturday, and I bike there once a week. Books are 50 cents, and I usually get as many as fit into my backpack. I enjoy any outdoor activity I do without getting into a car first. Over the summer I work as a raft guide rowing boats on three to five day trips. Its my favorite part of the year. I'm also an ok runner (as a PE teacher) and like whitewater kayaking. ]]> 2019-01-15 21:12:55 UTC https://padlet.com/mjorgensen6/p7rajw8z8atd/wish/321009435 Answers to questions... mjorgensen6 https://padlet.com/mjorgensen6/p7rajw8z8atd/wish/321010498
  • What are you most looking forward to learning about in this course? 

    • I hope that I can take much of what I’m learning in this course week to week and turn around and apply it one of the three classes I’m teaching. (Physics, Geometry, and Calculus.) I’m especially interested in interactive instruction and best practices for labs or projects. 

    • What is your biggest concern about taking this course? 

    I’m worried I’ll get lost in various technology platforms and different ways to submit work. I’m also somewhat concerned about overall workload while teaching full time, but that is a decision I’ve made and is entering up to me. 
    ]]>     2019-01-15 21:16:22 UTC https://padlet.com/mjorgensen6/p7rajw8z8atd/wish/321010498     Two Goals: mjorgensen6 https://padlet.com/mjorgensen6/p7rajw8z8atd/wish/321010885 1) I’d like to understand the science and studies from which best practices for instruction are devised. .

    2) I often feel that I teach in a bubble (there is one other science teacher and one other math teacher at my school, Alzar) so I’d like to learn other’s perspectives on teaching STEM to high schoolers.  

    ]]>     2019-01-15 21:17:38 UTC https://padlet.com/mjorgensen6/p7rajw8z8atd/wish/321010885     Video- Chile mjorgensen6 https://padlet.com/mjorgensen6/p7rajw8z8atd/wish/321012269 This is a short video I made about our student's experience in Chile last semester. (I tried to upload it from my desktop, but that requires padlet-pro)]]> 2019-01-15 21:22:24 UTC https://padlet.com/mjorgensen6/p7rajw8z8atd/wish/321012269 Best Designed Learning: mjorgensen6 https://padlet.com/mjorgensen6/p7rajw8z8atd/wish/321025237 The most concrete effective learning experience I've had would be taking 20th Century Physics at Whitman. This was the first challenging science class I took. The class was effective in covering new physics and really using the math that had previously been swept under the carpet. The class also connected concepts to real laboratory experiences that although often frustrating let me see the chalk board theory play out in the real world. All that said I think the most effective part of the class was working in groups on long, hard, and intricate problem sets. 

    Many of these themes carried through my physics class at Whitman. They also tended to be small, and I felt a personal obligation to the teacher to do quality work. 

    I'd say good design includes a personal connection to teachers, real world problems, and working with others to solve those problems. ]]>     2019-01-15 22:10:41 UTC https://padlet.com/mjorgensen6/p7rajw8z8atd/wish/321025237     Short Story mjorgensen6 https://padlet.com/mjorgensen6/p7rajw8z8atd/wish/321028182 Here is a short story partly about teaching. ]]> 2019-01-15 22:23:45 UTC https://padlet.com/mjorgensen6/p7rajw8z8atd/wish/321028182 Summer Job mjorgensen6 https://padlet.com/mjorgensen6/p7rajw8z8atd/wish/321029470 I'm in the back in teal. ]]> 2019-01-15 22:30:09 UTC https://padlet.com/mjorgensen6/p7rajw8z8atd/wish/321029470 I'm on the right mjorgensen6 https://padlet.com/mjorgensen6/p7rajw8z8atd/wish/321029634 Looking dorky. ]]> 2019-01-15 22:30:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mjorgensen6/p7rajw8z8atd/wish/321029634 Unrelated Words of Wisdom mjorgensen6 https://padlet.com/mjorgensen6/p7rajw8z8atd/wish/321029953 This is a draft... ]]> 2019-01-15 22:32:17 UTC https://padlet.com/mjorgensen6/p7rajw8z8atd/wish/321029953