February+21+assignments

____Journal Entry #1__ __ Jeffery Elementary School’s mission “is to foster a safe and diverse environment that promotes progressive thinking and encourages all students to explore their talents and individual interests to reach their full potential through the collaborative partnerships among students, staff, parents and community.” To hold the students accountable to this mission statement Jeffery set clear objectives for their teaching. Their staff is divided into 5 development teams which are used to hold the school accountable for the objectives. They are constantly assessed on their progress and achievement which helps the students learn to the best of their ability. Students from kindergarten to grade five are all able to attend Jeffery. There are 2 teachers for each grade and there are many different staff members who help in specialty areas from ELL to learning specialists.

____Descriptions of Interactive Tools__ __ The money online interactive tool is a useful manipulative because it allows students to use money in 3 ways. One way is to place an assortment of change into a box equaling $1. Another way is to give the value of a certain amount of change and cash shown in a picture. The last way is students are given a value and have to place the right amount of money into the box. This helps students practice real life money situations without being in an actual situation. It will help them identify and remember what each coin looks like and what value each coin is.

The venn diagram shape sorter would be helpful to a class of students who are learning about the relationships between shapes and colors. It would help them identify the differences and similarities among shapes, which helps in future processing of analogies and patterns. The interactive involves placeing random colors and shapes inside a circle, but only certain items can be placed in a circle based on a certain rule. If the shape does not follow the rule then it cannot be placed inside the circle. The student therefore needs to determine the rule.

____What skills did the students learn or practice when creating these videos?__ __

Students learned the technology skills necessary to make screencast like using a microphone, Jing to record video, the computer and cursor to highlight words, numbers or symbols. They learn how to explain math skills and concepts that they are demonstrating and teaching through the screencast.

____What standards would you set for students when they are creating a math video that demonstrates how to solve a problem?__ __

If I were to assign my fourth grade classroom to create a math video that demonstrates how to solve a problem, then I would assign each of them a certain math topic to teach that we have already covered and that they should have mastered and obtained fluency in that specific area. I would require each student to use the appropriate math vocabulary that goes along with their specific math topic, use multiple examples of problems regarding their math topic, to check their work, and to provide the viewer with real-life applications of using the skills that they have just demonstrated. They may need to provide a word problem.

____What is involved in each of the six sessions for the four units of the HOT MATH curriculum?__ __

The first unit is meant to help students develop problem-solving information, so that students can increase their logic and reasoning skills. The second unit focuses on “shopping list” problems. The third unit focuses on “half” problems. The fourth unit focuses on “bag” problems. The last unit focuses on “pictograph” problems. Sessions one through four focus on skill acquisition, which is the ability to identify what the problem is asking and how to solve the problem. Within session four cumulative review is also emphasized. In sessions five through six transfer lessons of the material are incorporated along with cumulative review.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">__<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">__What are the Self-Regulated Learning Strategies that are incorporated into each session with six additional activities that could be included?__ __ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">There are a few different self regulated learning strategies that are incorporated into each session. One is that students are allowed to check their work using an answer key so they can see their own success and where they made mistakes so they can make improvements. Students can also graph their daily score reports so they can see their improvements. Also students will check their graph before each lesson to they can set goals everyday. Another thing students will do is score their homework before they turn it in so they are receiving feedback immediately when finishing working. The students will also report to their classmates how they have connected and applied the materials and skills they are working on to life and other areas of the classroom or outside of the classroom. The last activity they will do is record their assignments and accomplishments on a class graph to increase competition and ownership to the entire class.