Hello fellow teachers and parents,
Welcome to my new blog. After beginning on my journey towards receiving my graduate degree in "Effective Teaching and Instructional Leadership" through Buena Vista University in August of 2015, I am at the end of my online courses. I will graduate on May 27, 2017. I wanted to create a blog to share with you what I have learned through my studies and research on how using specific interventions with a focus group helped to improve self-efficacy towards math, in the area of performance operations, by teaching them about having a growth mindset.
My small group intervention focussed on the foundations of number sense and problem-solving in the areas of real and complex numbers such as decimals and word problems. Through guided instruction in a small group setting students were taught through specific teaching strategies that included adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing decimals, as well as solving word problems that included the use of decimals.
What are some ways that you have tried to build self-efficacy in your students and/or children? Were you successful? How have you tried to help your students and/or children increase academically in math? Were you successful?
