Over the last few weeks I have been going through my final mathematic content coaching cycle. After planning and delivering for the lesson I have realized there are a few things that I could work to improve.
I need to make sure that when I am having students share their work that I am not just having a public conference with this student. By this I mean that it’s not just a conversation with myself and the student why the others just sit and watch with sheepish eyes. In order to change how this is going I think it would be beneficial if they were the ones asking the questions. This will get students who aren’t sharing their work to be a part of the conversation as well as helping the student how is sharing to become more familiar with the process and methods they are going through to solve problems. One way to help with this process would be to have math stems, sets of question for the student to use to enhance and drive their conversations. I haven’t found exactly what I want these stems to be and they would vary based on the content being taught (geometry and fraction stems would be very different. Both my content coach and I are on the look out for something to fit this need.
Another thing that I would like to improve upon would be the resource I choose to use. For this lesson I created my own worksheet but ended up using more of the Go Math questions. In the end this made it harder for them to do problems with multiple steps in them because the Go Math hadn’t given them the exposure they needed.
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