CGI

The videos we watch in class about CGI teaching were helpful in understanding what a cognitively guided instruction classroom would be like. The presentations on addition/subtraction and multiplication/division were helpful. I now know how and why its important to create different types of problems for children. Its also important to make the problems relevant to the students lives. In a CGI classroom, children naturally use a model that suites their style to solve the problems with out the teacher's rote instruction. After students solve the problem, they communicate with the rest of the class on how they solved the problem, what tools they used, and their answer. A variety of methods will be discussed before the class moves on to another problem. CGI is a good instructional strategy that I plan to use in my classroom. It's important for a teacher to build on the child's knowledge and to meet them where they at and to take what they already know and push them to the next level of mathematics.