I observed a 5th grade math lesson and a social studies lesson. I first noticed that before the kids came in the teacher was using Google translate to translate a letter to a student's parents who were from Haiti and couldn't understand English. I observed the math lesson and how the teacher incorporated teaching to the whole group, then broke them up into small groups of 3 to work on problems and then had them work on math problems individually from the text book. By doing this the teacher was able to give help to those children struggling and allow those who were ready to move on. At this school the fifth graders switch classes for certain subjects so I was able to see a different group have a social studies lesson. I noticed while teaching the social studies lesson the teacher was also teaching reading skills. She taught them skills called SQ3R and it was very helpful to those students when they needed to answer the questions in the text book.
I am amazed at the lack of time the teachers have with the students. Students are being pulled out for reading help, speech, music lessons, assemblies. It is very hard for the teachers to deal with all the scheduling issues
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