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Math Workshop in Middle School

7 Reasons to Use Math Workshop in Middle School

As challenging as it must be to incorporate our mathematical standards in each year, it is just as challenging to meet the needs of a classroom full of learners. The goal is clear each year, we must teach the standards and show growth but the pathway to get from Point

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Differentiating Small Groups

Differentiating Small Groups for Guided Math

For me, Guided Math wasn’t a specific station but rather I pulled from the stations to work with a separate group. This allowed me to constantly differentiate my Guided Math Groups without changing my Math Workshop Rotation Board. I’m all about working smarter and not harder and this truly helped. The tip

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Setting Up Small Groups

Setting Up Your Small Groups for Math Workshop

Setting up your small groups for math workshop involves a little bit of work. While there is no right or wrong way to group your students for small groups (also known as Guided Math), below is what I have done based on research and personal use in my classroom over

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Preparing Math Workshop

Preparing Math Workshop

Preparing Math Workshop in your classroom is going to take some work from you but I know that you can do it. When I decided to implement Math Workshop in my classroom, I knew my schedule was going to be tricky but I was determined to make it work. First

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Managing Math Workshop

Managing Math Workshop

Classroom management can make or break us as a teacher. When implementing a new system of learning, it is important that we take time to create our management system as well. Managing Math Workshop doesn’t have to be hard and with these 4 clear steps I hope that you can

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Organizing for Math Workshop

Organizing for Math Workshop

If you have been around my blog for awhile, or followed me on social media, you know that finding ways to interact and engage with my students that meet their learning styles was always the priority. While that began with all of my work with Interactive Notebooks (which is still

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What is Math Workshop?

What is Math Workshop?

What is Math Workshop? Math Workshop is one of the key ingredients in a Guided Math block in your math classes. Math Workshop allows for you to facilitate independent and individualized learning in a small group setting. While you are working with a small group for Guided Math, or facilitating

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As a new (or even seasoned ) teacher, you may be struggling with the aspects of what is Response to Intervention (RTI). What does it mean for you as a teacher and what does it mean in your classroom? I'm here to help you understand some basic components as well as link you to a FREEBIE that you can implement in your classroom from Day One (or whenever you need to start).

What is Response to Intervention (RTI)?

Our role as Educators is to ensure all students learn and are successful. In a perfect world, this would be easy. We teach our class a skill or topic and all of those smiling faces are able to comprehend and apply it to their daily lives. However, we don’t live

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Are you looking for ways to help your students choose the right "tool" to solve problems in your classroom? Having an arsenal of different tools and strategies is important when students are problem solving and I'm here to help you build just that.

Selecting Tools to Solve Problems

In the newly adopted Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) standard 1c for each grade level states, “The student is expected to select tools, including real objects, manipulatives, paper and pencil, and technology as appropriate, and techniques, including mental math, estimation, and number sense as appropriate, to solve problems.” And this standard

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Book Study: Guided Math Chapter 4

   Chapter 4 has several different instructional strategies that will work to use Guided Math with your whole class. As we are working to reach all of our students on a daily basis we have to take time to embrace the here and now as well as look toward the

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