Graphic Design
There are many different reasons that the addition of graphic designs in the classroom can be beneficial. One of the biggest reasons that it can benefit the classroom is due to the fact that some students learn best visually. Within our class, we will have each and every student learn in a different manner. If we add graphic designs, it will help us reach more of our base and will help more of our students, and will increase the chances of success for those students. Graphic designs can help create connections in the material that otherwise wouldn't have been made. It will allow visual learners to understand, and commit to memory, the information you're presenting to your students.
My students, specifically, learn best when I walk through the problems on the board, and illustrated each individual step in a different color. For example, if I have a 3 step math problem, the first step I will complete in blue, the second step I will complete in red, and the third step I will complete in green. Finally, I will circle the answer in red, to illustrate I am finished. I will then talk to my students and ask them at which color did they stop understanding the problem. This has given me a stronger grasp on when I lose students, and how I can further help educate them on correcting their mistakes. I also feel this benefits my students with their note-taking skills. If my students take notes in the same colors I am utilizing, it will hopefully help jostle their memory when they're working on their homework and have to look back at their notes for guidance.
Graphic design can easily be implemented in my Algebra II class. Throughout the entire year, I can add pictures, graphics, or animations to my presentations or lecture in class. With the addition of the graphic designs in class, it will allow me to break up the monotony of traditional math class of: lecture, drill, assign homework. I try my best to continue to make, and think of, creative or fun ways for my students to learn the material. Adding graphic designs will help me accomplish these goals I have. Furthermore, with graphic designs, you can bring to life a lesson about real life situations, such as taxes, paying bills, or balancing a checkbook. All of those skills can be brought to life with animations about money coming in, or money going out, of a checking account or writing checks.
My students, specifically, learn best when I walk through the problems on the board, and illustrated each individual step in a different color. For example, if I have a 3 step math problem, the first step I will complete in blue, the second step I will complete in red, and the third step I will complete in green. Finally, I will circle the answer in red, to illustrate I am finished. I will then talk to my students and ask them at which color did they stop understanding the problem. This has given me a stronger grasp on when I lose students, and how I can further help educate them on correcting their mistakes. I also feel this benefits my students with their note-taking skills. If my students take notes in the same colors I am utilizing, it will hopefully help jostle their memory when they're working on their homework and have to look back at their notes for guidance.
Graphic design can easily be implemented in my Algebra II class. Throughout the entire year, I can add pictures, graphics, or animations to my presentations or lecture in class. With the addition of the graphic designs in class, it will allow me to break up the monotony of traditional math class of: lecture, drill, assign homework. I try my best to continue to make, and think of, creative or fun ways for my students to learn the material. Adding graphic designs will help me accomplish these goals I have. Furthermore, with graphic designs, you can bring to life a lesson about real life situations, such as taxes, paying bills, or balancing a checkbook. All of those skills can be brought to life with animations about money coming in, or money going out, of a checking account or writing checks.
Great job, I agree! The use of color can be very impactful. I teach special education and I use color in similar ways. By breaking up multi-step problems with different colors helps them understand the differentiation in process but also it triggers memory. Most visual learners segment their information and the varied colors provide markers for recall. Something so simple can provide a huge benefit to many of our students. Nice job!
ReplyDeleteMatt,
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed reading how you implement real life situations into your math class. It is so important to teach students life skills like taxes, paying bills, and checkbook. I also like how you color coordinate different steps in your algebra class. It gives a great visual when you can say look at the blue step etc.
Matt,
ReplyDeleteIt's nice to see how you incorporate color coding in your math class. I have used color coding in argument papers where each color represents a different part of the argument. An example would be the claim is in red, evidence is in blue, and analysis is in green. Every year I tweak it to try to improve it, and it really works well when students start to peer edit. If they receive their paper back, and a color is missing, they know they need to add more information. We have also talked in our PLC of doing something like this grade wide and vertically as well, so that students don't have to relearn the color scheme.
Matt,
ReplyDeleteGraphic design is so important for visual learners. Being one myself, I can attest to the assistance pictures have given me when learning something new. I can remember while taking anatomy and physiology is college, I would use detailed pictures as a way to help me learn the different organ systems and their locations.
I really like the idea of color coding. Using different colors helps students make connections easier to information. Its a quick easy way for the brain to decipher what goes with what.