2 Articles from our Groups

My first article was: Strategies to Support Productive Struggle. This article explains how teachers should approach students when students don't know how to start a problem, don't know how to continue on with a problem, or if they know the answer but can't explain why. This article showed many examples of dialogue between a teacher and a confused student. In each of the situations, the teacher used guiding questions to help the students break down the more difficult problem into a more simple problem until the student was able to comprehend the problem and move on.

I think this was a nice article on guiding questions. This provides examples for me that I can use as a reference for when I begin teaching. The article also included a chart that explained teacher questions vs. student questions.

My second article was: Counting on Using a Number Game. This article explains the difference between counting all and counting on. Counting all is when a student is given two numbers such as 4 and 2. The student would count, "one two three four, (then move to the next card) five six" to get the total number when these numbers are added together. Counting on is when a student is given the same two cards the student would say, " five six". The student would understand that four was already given to them and would know the number sequencing for the next two numbers.

I liked this article because it was geared towards younger students. With math I usually only work with upper elementary or middle school criteria because I am a math concentration and I will have a middle school endorsement. Having articles will give me resources to use if I do end up teaching in the younger grade levels.