Core proposition 1-Teachers are committed to students and learning is the most important proposition which describes accomplished teaching when it comes to knowing your students. Because of what you know, you make the choices you make that will impact your students' learning and well being. So much comes into play in our classrooms each day, each learning segment, that involves knowing each individual student and how they learn, who they are as individuals, and most importantly how they respond to your learning environment. What you do totally impacts the learning response in that student.
Consider what you do this week in response to your knowledge of your students' needs and let us know how you made an impact. Remember the sentence stem: Because I know this_________about my students, I do this ____________, which impacts (their learning)(their well being)(their_______)in this way_______________________.
As you analyze your practice, you will see you do a hundred of these a day---maybe more. It is the teacher who makes the difference in the classroom each and every day. You are amazing!
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Today I proctored the Math AIMS test for students who had not passed the test yet (11th and 12th graders). I noticed that many of the students were nervous about this high stakes exam, and many of the students apparently had high levels of math anxiety (probably because this is their 3rd, 4th, or 5th time taking the exam). Some students worked diligently and others seemed to fill in bubbles carelessly/quickly. This made me wonder why these students have such high fear of math or the feeling of they’re not “good” at math. Was it a past failure in a specific topic, subject, teacher, classroom environment...??? Every student comes into my classroom having a different level of confidence in their math skills. I want to make sure that I work every day to help build my students math self-esteem (what I like to call their “math heart”). There are several techniques I use in my classroom to aid in this effort.
Because I know many students have math anxiety (or lack math confidence), I break down my lessons into smaller parts, which impacts their well being by scaffolding their learning.
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