June 20, 2010

So tomorrow I am going back to my original mentor teachers class for the last two weeks of practicum 2. It is exciting but challenging at the same time. Most of the students are low level learners and some of them cannot even do basic addition and subtraction. It is hard when they are so far behind not to enforce the "rules" on them so they can just do drill and practice in hopes that it will help them catch up to their grade level. In that class though the use their whiteboards to help them do math problems so I find it easier to be able to ask them how they did it and find out more about what's going on in their heads.