Friday, March 25, 2011
New Insights and Their Implications
In class I have learned that is best to give students problems and let them struggle and manipulate them to solve them. The students may work with partners or on their own to figure out the problems, and give them an adequate amount of time to work on the problems. I am doing my internship in Newcastle, NE at the junior high level. Wednesday I taught my first lesson to 8th grade algebra, and I taught them how to graph linear inequalities. First I explained what they were and how they were similar to graphing linear equalities, which they did the day before. I then showed a few examples on the board while explaining the material and getting their input from previous knowledge. They did great as a class on the board, but when I gave them problems to manipulate at their desk with graph paper I got a lot of blank looks even working with partners more than half of the class was lose. I had one of the groups of girls come up to the board to share their answer (which was correct) and explain to the class how they got it. The boys were still confused. I went over the steps and process again and they seemed to understand or were just pretending. I applied all the knowledge I have learned about the learning process and still feel that my lesson was unsuccessful to fifty percent of the class.
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