Week 15
In the last week, I worked on classroom management with little improvement. I started with rearranging seats of students and continuing progressive discipline with phone calls and referrals. This has worked about half of the time, half of the parents discipline their children, the other half do not or the children do not care what their parents say or do. In addition, I chose table leaders for each group and said that it was their responsibility to get their table quiet when I was asking my students to regroup after a discussion or problem time. This was successful for the most part. I also used a countdown method as well to get students back on track.
As for my Honors students, I worked on being less helpful for these students and I worked on inquiring them more about the math processes. I found this effective in getting a better picture of what my students understood. I also had a very successful day of reviewing with my students using a PowerPoint with the game Jeopardy. My students loved it. Each table created a team name and the two tables with the most points got candy. This review included everything that my students could expect to see on their exam next week and many of my students showed a need to review more on factoring. I have noticed that many students seem comfortable with quadratics and their transformations as well as drawing other functions like radicals and cubics.
This past week was overall much better, but many students continue to bring in bad behavior and no work ethic into the classroom and their grades display this. It is disheartening and sad.
It is nice to hear that the review Jeopardy game was a success and that the students seemed overall comfortable with the math. Thank you for trying new things with your classroom management. Classroom management is a moving piece of the puzzle that requires constant attention. Please keep us posted and we will gladly offers support and suggestions as needed. Winter break is almost here!!!!
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