I have learned so much about the combined use of maths and art this term (an area I have never been able to incorporate into my practical teaching before) my favorite was the maths art topic and learning to draw a maze post, in the maths art topic we chose as a group I incorporated one of my favorite maths lessons from university, knot theory, into our display and I also really enjoy doing crafts and I showed how to weave an intricate and beautiful Chinese knot. My most rewarding lesson was my micro-teaching class, I never thought I would be teaching a whole class and it was a great exercise for me. I love musical theatre, the combination of singing and dancing with drama is the most beautiful form of art in my opinion, and in this class I learned how to group and distribute students. I also enjoyed the puzzles in 342, even though I found some of the puzzles logically challenging for me (who has a math major), these puzzles are great examples of what I can teach my students to explore in the future. It also gives me a great example of a maths assignment for students that could be for them to write about what they think the topic is thinking and what stuck with them.
I don't think the assignment for designing a unit plan should be at the end of the list, for me I feel that unit plans are an area of my teaching that I am not very good at because I have never taught an entire chapter of a lesson at the appropriate grade level. I feel it is a little too late to receive comments and make changes after the semester. I need more time to talk to my students and prof about how to edit it.
