Teacher Reflection (MARS) 11/16/2010 


I started the day with students completing a page that contained the same type of skill problems they worked on the previous day. Many of them acted as though they had no idea what to do. I explained that working in cooperative groups was different, and so we would go over the page together. However, today I would write the most important objective on the board, we would do practice problems, they would finish the work in groups AND then they needed to make sure everyone in the group knew how to do a similar problem on his or her own tomorrow.


I'm not sure what to do about my "drama group" that is performing during our cooperative group math time. Last week, I moved one of the members out and replaced him with someone who was unhappy in another group. Unfortunately, there is still a lot of "She did this...," and "she did that" going on. All the other groups have done a good job although I have had three students out with illness this week. 


One thing I notice is that students do not come to me for help very often. It's nice to just observe or visit groups.