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Teaches have such busy lives outside of the classroom how are they suppose to spent time implementing new things into their classroom.
Over the past several years the big push in my district has been to improve literacy. New literacy aides were hired and also a literacy coach to help improve reading scores. The push included 180 minutes of language instruction to insure students were getting taught language skills. With 6 hours of school you now have 3 hours to fit in History, Science, Arts, PE, Computers, and maybe even Math. When a student looks at the schedule and sees less time dedicated to math than Language they think math is less important.
Also with Language there are so many ways to teach it; reading from a book, in small groups, sitting around the room on soft pillows reading, with the cool teacher who dressed up like a character from the book. With math the only way to teach it seems to be with a teacher in front of the class talking then do an assignment out of the book and you have to write down all the problems and you have to show all your work an all 50 problems that are exactly the same. There needs to be a better way.
Please please please if anyone reads this blog tell me better ways to teach math so I can tell my other teachers.
Over the past several years the big push in my district has been to improve literacy. New literacy aides were hired and also a literacy coach to help improve reading scores. The push included 180 minutes of language instruction to insure students were getting taught language skills. With 6 hours of school you now have 3 hours to fit in History, Science, Arts, PE, Computers, and maybe even Math. When a student looks at the schedule and sees less time dedicated to math than Language they think math is less important.
Also with Language there are so many ways to teach it; reading from a book, in small groups, sitting around the room on soft pillows reading, with the cool teacher who dressed up like a character from the book. With math the only way to teach it seems to be with a teacher in front of the class talking then do an assignment out of the book and you have to write down all the problems and you have to show all your work an all 50 problems that are exactly the same. There needs to be a better way.
Please please please if anyone reads this blog tell me better ways to teach math so I can tell my other teachers.
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