Clinical Field Experience D: Assessment and Feedback

Clinical Field Experience C: Math Mini-Lesson Plan

Part 1: Math Mini-Lesson Plan

Math standard: CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.4.NBT.B.5 Grade level: 4th Grade Brief description of the unit the class is currently learning: The students will learn the multiplication of a whole number of up to 4 digits by a one-digit whole number and two-digit whole numbers through the use of strategies based on place value and the properties of operations.

Learning objective: The student will be able to accurately multiple whole numbers of up to 4 digit by 1 and 2 digit whole numbers.

Instructional strategy: Interactive instructions

Description of math learning activity that is directly related to the data received from the pre-assessment: The students had a problem with understanding essay multiplication questions, thus in this mini-lesson hey will be guided on how to come up with a multiplication expression from an essay question.

Formative assessment: 1. A teacher wants to buy breakfast for her students. She will buy a packet of milk and 3 packets of biscuits for each student. If there are 20 students in her class, how many packets of milk and biscuits should she buy? 1. If there are 20 cars per yard. How many cars are in 25 yards? 1. If there are 12 packets of biscuits in one box, how many biscuits are in 250 boxes? 1. If one hover board cost $250, how much would 100 hover boards cost? 1. A box contains 200 exercise books and 100 pens; how many books and pens are in 80 such boxes? 1. If one year has 365 days, how many days are there in a century?

Part 3: Reflection

The use of pre-assessment data to develop a lesson is very key. This is because it helps an instructor to understand first hand which group of students does require a specific kind of instruction. Therefore these students will be able to have their differentiated instruction so that they understand much better. This hence will lead to a positive outcome on the learning objectives that the teacher intends to attain.

Looking at this data, I was able to identify the weak points of the majority of the students. I observed that most of the students especially the ELLs had a problem deducing the implied meanings in the questions that entailed some essay characteristics. This helped me to therefore understand that the students’ strengths lied in the problems that were digit-based. This means that more of the efforts were to be placed in the area that entailed essay-based questions so that they may learn the language of mathematics.

Therefore it is ethical for an instructor to keep the assessment data private as well as treat them with the desired respect. This is because the instructor is required not to expose the weaknesses of the students as this may badly affect the concentration and the social aspect of their being in class or the learning environment in general. This hence enables the students to interact and learn with one another coherently.

After the lesson was presented, I realized that the students needed more time to be allowed to synthesize the essay-based multiplication quizzes. Therefore I resolved to increase more time while encouraging the students to learn in groups as they are able to discuss and teach one another how to break down the questions. This made the students understand and improve on their ability to solve the multiplication problems with much ease.

This lesson supports short-term as well as long-term planning very well. In terms of short-term planning, I was able to instruct the learners to the extent that they were able to grasp multiplication methods ideas very well and were, therefore, able to solve simple problems that look big. On the other hand, in regards to long-term planning, the students build on their skills to handle quite complex multiplication problems that are so general in our everyday life. This is because most of the case scenarios in future mathematics comprise mixed operations, thus it would look pretty difficult for learners to understand the logic in these problems if they will not be able to understand the aspects of multiplication that come through such structured questions.

References

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCIwjp3E4Wc (38:10 minutes).

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw4R3HwwiUY&t=12s (35:54 minutes).

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et2FGIm79-U&t=23s (51:26 minutes).

TNDeptofEducation. (2020). Teaching Tennessee: 4th grade math lesson 1.

Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I82vj85it0 (28:44 minutes).

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKyVjINaLVU

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