number operations: multiplication & division
Planning:
This video did not have the planning part like the other
video had. Personally I liked the way the other video did that, I felt like
that also helped me as a viewer to better understand what was going to be
happening for the class time. However I really liked that she used the term
active listening with the students. Really using that academic language with
them is important.
Lesson:
I liked that she made sure she wrote what the students were
saying to on the board, she was not just assuming. However I did not like that
she asked a student to draw a picture and she would get back to it and then she
never got back to it. To me that tells the student that she didn’t feel that
she had time to hear about his thinking. Also I don’t think she provided enough
wait time after her questions. I think she did a good job listening to the students
but I also feel like she didn’t really stick with anything that they said.
Every time a student made a suggestion she would go back to the boxes and
writing the numbers in the boxes; which personally even I was confused and
distracted by her doing that. I also did not like when she called a student to
the board to write something and she erased what the student wrote and rewrote
it. I could read what the student wrote, why did she erase it?
I also think she jumped the gun on their knowledge. She
talking about multiplying and dividing single digit number and then she jumped
to a two digit number by a single digit number. I don’t this the students were
ready for that big of a jump so quickly.
Also I think that she should have made the lesson only about
multiplication and do division a different day. There was just too much being
spoken on. Also of the students were having a hard time figuring out the equal
groups for multiplication what is there to say you should move on to division. They
also never did any word problems with division so I just think it made a long
lesson longer… Do division on a different day.
One of my favorite parts in of the whole lesson was when the
student counted “20, 40, 60, 80” “6, 12, 18, 24” equals 104. While watching
this I said “WOW” out loud. I was so blown away by that student’s thought
process. To me I would have never thought to think about it that way. It was
amazing to me that a fourth grader was able to use that skill and process the
right answer. This was an ah-ha moment for me, really making it clear that all students
really do process math skills differently and as teachers we need to work with
them on that and not tell them their thinking is wrong.
The biggest thing that I did not like about the lesson was
that she kept asking them how THEY would draw a picture. She spent so much time
on that. And I am a firm believer that when you asked student to draw a picture
you are going to get a variety of different kinds of pictures, but as long as
it makes sense with the math problem it is not wrong. But it’s as if she wanted
every student to draw the same picture when she should them the Charlie model.
It was like she said “yeah your picture is nice, but this is what I want your
picture to look like”; which I believe that this is really where she lost them.
That picture just did not make sense to the students.
At the very end I did like that she explained the camera
crew more to the students and told them thank you and also told them they would
be rewarded for their good behavior.
Faculty:
I felt like she did a good job addressing the positives of
her lesson, but she never addressed the negatives of her lesson. I also really
liked how the one teacher drew what she saw on the students’ papers. And she
even kind of pointed out that the students really had no idea how to make sense
of the Charlie model. Which I thought was really important because the main
teacher thought that the Charlie model was awesome and so perfect, but if it doesn’t
make sense to the students… It is not awesome. Also personally I found the Charlie
model to be weird as well. That is not how I would have represented my picture
for that question and also not how I would have wanted it to look after I saw
that model as well.
Thoughts:
My overall thoughts have been address throughout the course
of this blog post.
Thanks, Lauren:)
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