Teaching Tips

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by Sandra Telker1 view·Updated Oct 2, 2021

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  1. the article I chose was tips were teaching math to
  2. elementary students by gary scar belt.
  3. My major is in special education.
  4. And um so sometimes teaching math for me is hard.
  5. I sometimes rely on the other math teachers to help
  6. me with your curriculum.
  7. And some of their techniques.
  8. I teach a resource room four grades 3 through six
  9. and I teach them math concepts.
  10. I also teach them english comprehension and written expression.
  11. Okay thank you.
  12. So as I said math can be hard to teach.
  13. It's even hard to teach for massacres.
  14. Sometimes some of the key things to learn or to
  15. to know when you're teaching math is to understand the
  16. math concepts have knowledge of the curriculum have pointers to
  17. deliver concepts, plan out your lesson plans in advance and
  18. discuss for the teachers.
  19. Practice practice practice and review your lesson plans.
  20. Mhm. Yeah.
  21. Yes. Study the methods to be comfortable to teach them.
  22. If the teacher has confidence in what she's teaching, the
  23. students will have more confidence because students, most students have
  24. anxiety when learning math.
  25. This will help them if they feel more comfortable and
  26. confident in what they're learning.
  27. Also use pre assessments to find out where the student
  28. is in her knowledge of math and concepts.
  29. You can review, you can review that whatever you need
  30. to review in there uh concepts to get them to
  31. where they need to be.
  32. Don't just let a student continue on what she's working
  33. she or he is working on.
  34. If they do not understand it, go back and review,
  35. lets students explain their answers to you.
  36. If they aren't quite clicking and getting the right answer
  37. sometimes it could just be one thing that they're doing
  38. wrong in their steps.
  39. If you know there math logic and how they're solving
  40. it, you're able to teach them steps, give them encourage
  41. encouragement, have them practice, tell them that learning math is
  42. like practicing for a piano.
  43. Um just practice practice practice if a student is not
  44. able to solve a problem sometimes if they just walk
  45. away from the problem and come back later, I'll refresh,
  46. it's right there, they can solve it.
  47. Students may ask why they need to know learn math.
  48. They may even say that they're not gonna need it
  49. for their jobs or they're not gonna need it later
  50. on in life.
  51. Be ready for answers that will supplement why they need
  52. math, tell them what careers I need meth for almost
  53. everything. Almost every career has to use math in some
  54. form um use everyday live for problem solving, help them
  55. to be knowledgeable and what they're going to need meth
  56. for in the future.
  57. Yeah. Any questions Yeah