Van de Walle’s chapter on Problem Solving has been incredibly helpful in planning for my own teaching. He carefully deconstructs the methods used by effective teachers to and scaffolds beginning teachers well as they begin experimenting with lesson plans. Though the focus of the book is math, these methods could easily and effectively be applied [...]
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There is so much content to cover when thinking about the pedagogy of reading that there’s no way I could possibly succeed in one blog post. So before I begin, I must concede defeat (not a very promising start!). With that said, I want to ask the most basic of questions: What IS reading? If [...]
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Being that I work in a first-grade classroom, I am very interested in learning about the way that children understand place value and base ten. I am planning on interviewing three students who represent the various stages of conceptual mathematical understanding. Student 1 is a young girl who is sweet, eager, and hard [...]
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Today, I taught my social studies lesson (In My Neighborhood: Learning About Each Other). The children have had a couple of days learning about customs, holidays, and how different groups of people celebrate different days. At the end of this lesson, children were able to identify three main points: our customs have [...]
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