My last post showed one way I teach my students to figure out elapsed time. Today, I’m over at the Ellison Education blog showing how I introduce elapsed time in the beginning. It’s so important to start as concretely as possible, and I love giving my students clocks to do it themselves. Click the picture below to head on over and see what we did.
Students struggle with doing measurement conversions, especially when they have to work with adding and subtracting those measurements first. When my students have worked through word problems that asked for the units in a specific way, they often struggle to remember to convert between units and struggle to add and subtract correctly. When teaching elapsed time, I originally always taught it with the backwards N (which is the same as the zoom method) and with
I originally heard of Grit during a conference discussing leadership in membership organizations when someone shared this Ted Talk from Angela Lee Duckworth. I immediately thought of my students and how grit was an important part of the work we do each day as educators. As a former teacher, Duckworth wanted to see what kept students engaged and successful with school. And what she said made so much sense. In education classes in college I
Many, many years ago, I was a reading teacher in a K-5 building. We revamped our report cards that year to be very standards focused. Indicators based on the standards were broken apart into the report card and each received their own score which then made up the overall grade. One of the teachers came to me and said…”How do you grade fluency?” We talked things through and couldn’t come to a solid opinion on
I don’t know about you, but I’m not looking forward to the next few weeks of school. This week I had 3 days off, and sure that’s restful. I even convinced myself that I didn’t need to spend time at school doing any of the million things I need to do. I just needed to spend a few days away from school. For my sanity. But the next few weeks are going to be crazy.
I’ve spent the last 15 years teaching in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grades, and working beside elementary classrooms as an instructional coach and resource support. I’m passionate about math, literacy, and finding ways to make teachers’ days easier. I share from my experiences both in and out of the elementary classroom. Read more About Me.
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