Today was my first day in the Mr. Ricke's 8th grade math class. I observed the class and teacher through the whole period. Mr. Rickie had some students fix a part of their test then once they were finished he went over the whole test with the class. He went over exactly how to do it. He was projecting the test on the board while writing on his computer so the students could see how he was doing each problem. When it came down to doing the last four problems, he did not have the right page that matched the test. After a short time of looking to find it, he just went through it orally with the class. I think going through it where the students can see it on the board was a good idea but when he couldn't find the page the students might have got confused from him telling them the answer. The teacher then assigned review problems to go through for the next 10 minutes until they went over them. This review was to refresh there minds on some things they might of forgot for a standardized test coming up. The students worked in groups of 2-3, all the students worked the whole time. Mr. Rickie had to tell them once to stay on task and to not talk. It was a good exercise because it made the students work in groups and to work together. They then went through the review orally and some of the difficult problems, he had the students write their work on the board. After they understood everything on the review, he then moved on to talking about square roots for their next chapter. He asked them questions like "What is a square root?", "What does it mean?", "What does it do?" He made the students think about what it actually did which was a good plan I thought so the students could remember what square roots were all about. This class is very on tasks and I am excited to be in the class with them this semester.
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April 2015
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