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Your objective- should it say missing number instead of addend? (this is the day you will be teaching the subtraction method)

wed warm up- calendar math

Should the students be completing the centers first then the assessment paper? (Do you think they will be able to do the worksheet independently before practicing with their partners?)

What will the center handout look like? (I would make sure each center is clearly numbered and you make sure the students understand they are to find that number on the worksheet, they sometimes struggle with this and then their answers are all over the place. )

Reflection & Analysis

- Instruction was choppy because I constantly paused to point out behavior issues. The lesson seemed to flow up to the engagement but hit a bump when I introduced centers. I should have set up centers before I even introduced it, maybe as they were doing their warm up. - This lesson put the nail in the coffin of whole class math instructions. I learned the hard way that this group works more effectively in smaller groups. - Knowing that yesterday's small group lesson worked well, I could have modified this lesson into smaller group settings rather than whole class. I think I needed one last affirmation that whole class instruction just doesn't work well with this group. If I could reteach it, I would do a quick engagement as a class and then split them up into two groups. One group could have done centers with me on the carpet while the other group worked on classwork and played a dice game relative to the content. Since I would be working with a group size that is more manageable, I would pull out manipulatives and dry erase markers to make the centers more hands-on. - In my lesson plan, I stressed quite a bit about the behavioral needs and accommodations for my students rather than academic ones. I think I need to focus more on what kind of academic needs they have and support I could give them to address these needs. I agree that I need to accept that this class is a social and rowdy bunch. Searching for ways to get them to socialize about math rather than something else is key and this is where the level of engagement plays part. - Fortunately, despite the chaos and choppiness of the lesson, majority of the students grasped the concept. They did very well on the assessments. - Overall, I'm taking away a lot from this lesson!