Helping Struggling Students in Math

The teacher in this article was herself a struggling student in math.  Why?  She explains that her teachers lectured and students took notes and practiced.  The next day they did the same.  Today as a math teacher in Tenessee she reflects on the changes  in math in Common Core and likes them a lot.  Read to learn how she organizes her math classes and what she asks her students to do.  Very worthwhile!

Helping struggling students:  A view from one math teacher's classroom. Barbara Kantrowitz.  10.15.13.  The Hechinger Report
http://hechingerreport.org/content/helping-struggling-students-a-view-from-one-math-teachers-classroom_13473/

CC Math for Struggling Learners - Ways to Help

This article was written with us in mind, I'm sure.  We struggle to implement the more demanding challenges of Common Core expectations in math to students who are already struggling.  How to do this?  Most math teachers claim to be unprepared to help struggling math learners.  Read how some teachers are helping them with close-reading skills, drawing out concepts of word problems, discussions of possible solutions to problems.  We've discussed some of these strategies in our own classes and also in helping Ell students.  What is concerning so many teachers are the new assessments currently being written.  There is a lot of uncertainty around.  You are not alone.

Math Teachers Strive to Bring Core to At-Risk Students.  3.13.13 Anthony Rebora.  Education Week Teacher - Premium Article.
http://www.edweek.org/tm/articles/2013/03/13/ccio_math_at-risk.html?tkn=ZPZFo3x3X5c3s9bZhI0qY%2FQfzu6jcGWr7m2m&cmp=ENL-CCO-NEWS1