Learning Enviroments
1. Collaborates with learners, families, and colleagues to promote a safe, positive, and respectful learning climate.
3. Manages the learning environment by organizing, allocating, and coordinating resources, time, and space.
3. Manages the learning environment by organizing, allocating, and coordinating resources, time, and space.
Having a safe environment is a huge priority in our classroom. In our class and school we have multiple ways of making sure that students follow rules and respect their peers. We display multiple posters to help students remember all of the rules. The monetary system is extremely important. The students get very excited about the monetary system and it is the center of the classroom. It helps the students get consistency and work towards a goal. The rules displayed in the classroom and the monetary system are both systems that the students helped put in place. They came up with the rules and with what they should be fined for and how much. Listed below are the rules that the students follow every day in the classroom. This gives them a sense of responsibility while also giving them rewards and consequences for their actions. We also have classroom jobs that the students get paid for. This eliminates time spent on picking students to take the lunch basket or pass out papers. All students also then get the opportunity to do each of these jobs.
We also have two filing systems. One is for us to remember what to copy, what to file, homework, and more to remain organized in the classroom. The other filing system is where we put all of the work that the students have already completed and that we have graded. The students always know where they can pick up this work. We also put notes home in these file folders. Students also have a particular place where they are expected to put all completed work. These different areas help us keep the classroom organized for ourselves and the students.
We also have two filing systems. One is for us to remember what to copy, what to file, homework, and more to remain organized in the classroom. The other filing system is where we put all of the work that the students have already completed and that we have graded. The students always know where they can pick up this work. We also put notes home in these file folders. Students also have a particular place where they are expected to put all completed work. These different areas help us keep the classroom organized for ourselves and the students.
Content Knowledge
1. Uses multiple representations and explanations of content.
4. Stimulates learner reflection on prior content knowledge, links new concepts to familiar concepts, and makes connections to learner's experiences
4. Stimulates learner reflection on prior content knowledge, links new concepts to familiar concepts, and makes connections to learner's experiences
Fractions was a huge part of my math teaching during full takeover. Throughout all of these lessons the information we learned about fractions built on themselves. I wanted to make sure they had a really good basis for understand fractions. As shown below the students learned about equivalent fractions in multiple ways. We first had the students do a whole group lesson with us. The flash cards represent a game I played with the students. There were two different cards for each fraction and the students had to find another student in the class who had the same fraction but represented in a different way. Also students were expected to know about equivalent fractions in their Simple Solution work that they do daily. Even though I am done teaching equivalent fractions, it still comes up in the Simple Solutions (as show below) and they are consistently working on it.