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
For years I taught my students the same problem solving process. I wasn’t invested in it and I didn’t think it was the best. But, it was something I had found online for free. This year I spontaneously put a new twist on it, and it’s worked for my students better than ever before. As I was telling students they need to go through the steps to attack the problem, I added on that they
Over the years, I’ve used a variety of systems to manage my small groups and centers rotations. I’ve used Slides and Powerpoint to display one chart with different slides for each day of the week as detailed in my Small Group Instruction Management post. My Editable Centers and Small Group Display has been a savior for that! I’ve also used Powerpoint to time, signal, and rotate through my small group rotations each day. Every year,
I’ve changed up my small group and centers rotation display several times over the years. My first year, my partner teacher and I grouped between classes so we had several groups to manage. Our set up looked something like this (but with quite a few more places the students actually went to) and with three rotations each day. Every morning I’d move the center rotation cards so the students knew where they’d go when since
