Thursday. Seventh grade math. First period.
It was a co-taught class, and I was subbing for the special ed teacher, so Ms. G ran her class as usual. The topic for the day was percentages.
Ms. G explained the formula to them, gave examples, gave them a chance to try some problems, went over those problems so the kiddos knew what to do, and then she gave them problems to work on. Typical math class.
And typical seventh graders.
One boy just sat there, kind of staring off into space. Ms. G was doing notes, and he wasn't copying down what she was writing. When I tried to get him to do something, he said he didn't know what to do. Well, start with copying the notes she was demonstrating for him. That's a good place to start.
Seventh graders think they can talk and work. What they end up doing is going off on tangents and getting no work done. So, while they were allowed to "work together", they weren't getting as much done as they could.
Well, at least I could help them when they needed it. Mostly. And for a seventh grade class, they weren't too horrible.
All in all, a win.
ReplyDeleteIt was a pretty good class, considering. Last week was one of those weeks where not enough blog-worthy things happened, so I had to scramble a bit for today.
Delete"They weren't too horrible." I wonder how many of my teachers thought that after a day was over.
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