Personal Learning Path

Post #2: We finished the unit on fractions last week.  The students had a test towards the end of last week.  The night before the test they were given some practice and friendly notes/reminders (such as cross simplify and when dividing fractions change the operation and flip the second fraction) I reviewed with the teacher how she grades the tests.  If the work is shown and the answer was incorrect, there is opportunity for partial credit.   This week the teacher started with a lesson on area.  She projects the math textbook pages  on the smart board for easy viewing and teaching.   The textbook had a visual of a square and a rectangle.  She went over what it meant to find the area of something.  She then asked and showed where the length is vs the width and how to calculate the area.  She then did two area calculations with the visuals on the smart board and then had two students come up to the board to answer two area calcul...

  Susie Smith My journey: I am currently a teacher’s aide in my local district.  I am in a fifth grade classroom.  In week 2 for me which was right after the Christmas break, my teacher was out with Covid.  They asked me if I would be ok being the substitute teacher and I said yes.  I taught math lessons for 8 days.  During the special at the first period of the day I would go over the lesson.   I also took the Math teacher’s guide home some nights to review the lesson for the next day.  The students are learning multiplication and division of fractions.  I started each lesson with a visual - either drawing in their math notebooks or using index cards to visualize.  The book used for the lesson gave great ideas on what to do.    For example: I gave out index cards and had them figure out ½ x 3 using the index cards.   I then picked on one pair to tell me and show the answer.   I asked if anyone had anot...