Hello and welcome to April!!
Thank you for visiting my blog and commenting on how you try to foster a growth mindset for your students and children. I have really enjoyed watching my students grow this year in their self-efficacy and their academics in math. I have seen a lot of changes in their attitudes towards math after working in small groups with my students.
My next question is: How have you tried to help students learn how to be successful when working with decimals? Do you try to tie your lesson to real life situations, such as money? Do you use manipulatives? Do you review place value a lot until they seem to have mastered the skills needed?
Also, why do you think students of all ages struggle with solving word problems? Is it really about reading issues? Is it pulling out keywords and context clues? Why do they freeze up as soon as they see a problem that has a lot of words in it? Most students know how to solve 4x5, but if it has words added to the problem they struggle to even know which math skills to use to solve the problem. Is it really about lack of number sense? And how do we help our students move past this struggle?
Thank you for your responses. Have a great day!
Sincerely,
Mrs. Gay
Wednesday, April 5, 2017
Thursday, March 23, 2017
Welcome to Mrs. Gay's Blog!!
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?
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?
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