I
decided to start the week with renewing my mindset. I've learned that dwelling on negative thoughts, will keep me in that mindset and that is not a mindset I will allow myself to stay in, for very long.
We get one life to live and since I don't live in a tent in the woods, my interactions with others will be affected by thoughts I allow to "camp out" in my mind. Not happening! Each day is a new day! A new beginning! :)
We get one life to live and since I don't live in a tent in the woods, my interactions with others will be affected by thoughts I allow to "camp out" in my mind. Not happening! Each day is a new day! A new beginning! :)
This week was a great week. My goal this week
was to try and come up with resources that I could use with students that are struggling
to learn certain math concepts. We have been working on numbers that come before
and after a given number. I graded a math quick check that was given to
students and saw that approximately six students struggle with consistently
finding the before/after number of a given number. I was able to figure out
that part of the issue is the 100’s board they are using. Students are getting
confused when you go from left to right (i.e. 1-10), then you go back to the
left and down a row to get to the next number (11). For example, if the given
number was 11(which would be the 1st number on the second row), some
of the students would get stuck immediately and say the number before 11 is 13,
instead of going up a row and looking to the far right. For this reason, I had
the idea to create a number line for students to get a better visual as to what
is before and after. I created three number lines (1-20, 21-40, and 41-60).
This seemed to have helped some of the students; I was excited about that.
Another strategy we tried was putting a Unifix cube on the given number- this
seemed to help some, as they weren’t taking their finger off to write down
their answer. The cube stayed put, so it helped keep their place after they
wrote down the first part of before/after. Even with all going on with the
edTPA, this was a great week! Sometimes it takes a lot of things happening
at once, to make me realize I need to just take a step back, reflect, and breathe.