Today was another overwhelming day. The thought going through my head on how to map out an
entire year were scrambling in every direction.
It was not until I went home that I was able to focus and make sense of
what I was suppose to do. I choose the
math curriculum because I have not become familiar with one particular grade
level from moving around from grade to grade.
In my mind it is very difficult to bring my math level of thinking down
to the elementary grade level. It
boggled my mind why all my third grade students didn't know their basic math
facts in addition and subtraction. To me
I felt it was unacceptable.
Then the rubrics came.
What an eye opener that was. After
looking at all the groups rubrics one of the major con was understanding what
is expected. If we as adults did not
understand the rubrics how was a child in our classroom going to understand
what was expected.
For the life of me I could not get onto this blog, so
hopefully our wonderful teacher can copy and paste this onto her blog. Have a wonderful Wednesday!!!!!!
I feel what you are saying! Totally overwhelming but eye opening. Rubrics can be a helpful tool and while we use a version for assessment of tasks, I feel it is important to also have rubrics in kid friendly language so they can utilize them also.
ReplyDeleteAs a fellow Math teacher I can relate to your frustration. I now expect that many of my students will lack the prerequisite skills needed to be successful in my class. Since I cannot reteach my students' previous course, I use Warm-ups and Exit Questions as a review and an indicator of the problems I may encounter in a future task.
ReplyDeleteHaving moved from grade level to grade level and across contents throughout my career, I know it can be hard to know your subject as you feel you need to when you are in front of the kids. However, it will get easier! Don't be so hard on yourself...I've been in this for 18 years and I still feel like you sometimes. Your kids are lucky you try so hard for them. Of course, you could cook for them and then they'd like whatever you're teaching them even better...lol. Have a great night!
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