Top 8 Ideas For Teaching One-to-One Correspondence

What I Learned Today - Lesson #1 - My Misconception.

This week I have been thinking more and more about how to get the message of the importance of communication between student to student and students to teacher is critical if we want to create great problem solvers who have great reasoning skills.   I just read an article in a NCTM journal by a fourth grade teacher and I love her quote: "Communication is not a passing fad!  It belongs in th

This week I have been thinking more and more about how to get the message of the importance of communication between student to student and students to teacher is critical if we want to create great problem solvers who has great reasoning skills.   I just read an article in a NCTM journal by a fourth grade teacher and I love her quote: "Communication is not a passing fad!  It belongs in the

This week I have been thinking more and more about how to get the message of the importance of communication between student to student and students to teacher is critical if we want to create great problem solvers who has great reasoning skills.   I just read an article in a NCTM journal by a fourth grade teacher and I love her quote: "Communication is not a passing fad!  It belongs in the

Top 8 Strategies For Using Math Manipulatives

#1  From day one, set ground rules for using manipualtives.  Talk about the similarities and differences between using manipualtives for play and for using them as math tools.

#2 Talk with students about how manipulative helps them to learn math concepts.

As I continue to read The Art and Science of Teaching I am always questioning, reflecting, and building upon my schema about what good teaching looks like.  In Chapter 3 Marzano discusses how best to teach both procedural and declarative knowledge.  Researchers have basically tagged knowledge as either procedural knowledge or declarative knowledge.

Getting started is so hard to do.  Now that I know what I know, what's next?  Of course I'm referring to my prior posts: Communicating Goals - The Destination, Providing Feedback - The GPS System, and Is Reinforcement a Good Thing?   In this post I hope to breakdown this process in six simple steps.

Is Reinforcement a Good Thing?

Providing Feedback - The GPS System