Week 24

 On Monday my mentor teacher had the students due a lot of practice workseets online about probability. She went over all of them with the students. This served as an AIMS review. I was never entirely aware at how important AIMS was until this year. The elementary schools make a huge deal out of it as well as the high school. my mentor teacher had the students take a practice AIMS test and from their scores she can decide what the students need improvement on. A big part of math is pracicing. That is a great way to get good at it is too practice and gain confidence with the material. Thursday and Friday I helped grade papers. I am getiing really good at that! For the first time I graded the students timed math facts worksheet. Typically there were students who did very well or others who struggled with it, but not usually somewhere in between. Again, practice is key. I was surprised at how long it took to grade even a few of them. I'm not sure how often she does those worksheets. I would probably guess once every two weeks or so. There is also a student in class that needs help on a lot of problems. It seems as though he needs someone to walk him through everything. I wonder, how as a teacher you could help raise his confidence. I may want to try some more one on one and trying to help him be more active in class. It is a struggle however, if the student does not want to learn. Perhaps it would help to have special reinforcement for that student but I'll keep watching my mentor teacher and see if she can offer more advice in that area.