Thinking Classrooms and Consolidation and Feedback
How do you make sure students are thinking deeply to integrate new knowledge and growing academically? Peter Liljedahl discusses a process of consolidation and feedback that he and the teachers he worked with found effective for just this purpose. Read the blog to find out more.
Let’s Examine Thinking Tasks
When tutoring, thinking tasks can be used at the beginning of instruction to help students transition and get them ready to think. Thinking tasks also build students’ ability to think critically by applying their knowledge to novel situations and using out-of-box thinking to solve problems.
Using Challenges to Get Students Thinking
Using challenges or puzzles at the beginning of a lesson will help engage students in the lesson and learning process. Challenges like this not only engage students in the learning process, but they also provide a quick informative assessment that can help you determine what students need.
Building Addition and Subtraction Skills
When tutoring a student who struggles with regrouping and multi-digit addition, the tutor needs to consider the skills the student didn’t solidify in a previous grade. This blog post briefly reviews how addition and subtraction skills build from kindergarten through sixth grade and where possible problems may arise.
Tutoring and Math: Vertical Alignment and Sequencing Numbers
Properly sequencing and plotting numbers on a number line is dependent upon foundational skills learned in earlier grades. Students who are unable to compare fractions to sequence and plot them accurately will need interventions on understanding what a fraction is and how it expresses its value.
Holiday Learning Strategies, part 2
Using a connect five game during interventions to review foundational math concepts for multi-digit multiplication. This is a great way to support student learning and review key concepts.
Holiday Learning Strategies
Halloween is coming up.
As a Special Educator and teacher I find that students need a bit of leeway on the days leading up to, the day of, and the day after Halloween. I like to use those days to review concepts previously covered by playing games.
Let’s talk about math
This is an example of a math intervention for students learning multi-digit multiplication or they're struggling with it.
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