Student teaching...

My student teaching experiences have been unique to say the least. I have found some new ways to introduce content literacy, which is encouraging. During a day devoted to vocabulary, my host teacher and I incorporated a different definitions technique. We allowed the students to make a sort of "hide-away" vocabulary organizer. The organizer included the word, the definition, and an example. I think the students prefer the new method versus the traditional method. While teaching this technique, I also noticed that many of my students were not using the glossary and were having struggles developing definitions and examples using the chapters. Taking a peers advice, I decided to take the time to explain the uses of the glossary. We actually discovered that the glossary also incorporated examples for each vocabulary word. Talk about killing two birds with one stone...

I am now working on word problem literacy. I believe that students struggle with the mathematical interpretations of word problems. I have noticed that they have struggled with simply pulling out the given information. Thus, we have devoted some time this week to word problem literacy techniques. If anyone had any advice on this, I would appreciate it.

I still have difficulties with avoid readicide in my classroom. I want to incorporate reading, yet we do not use our textbooks often. I am thinking about incorporating math journals during my TWS and maybe developing a mathematics history assignment.