Personal Learning Path

I am currently completing my student teaching requirements in a third grade classroom. During my student teaching observations this past week, there was an incident in the classroom on Friday (my off day). As I am still learning about the students in the classroom, I was able to observe how my host teacher handle the situation.  The Incident: One student wrote a note to another student that said something inappropriate. The student who received the note stated that the classmate (student A) who handed it to her stated it was from another student (student B).  How the teacher handled the incident on Friday: When the teacher asked student B about the note he swore it was not from him and that he did not write it. After looking at his handwriting compared to the note it was obvious that the note was not written by Student B. The teacher then had the entire class do an activity where she had them write down some words. The students were not aware that these words were to help dete...

 One aspect of math that I had the most difficulty learning was that of fractions. To  be more specific adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing inequivalent fractions. When these types of problems are in decimal form I have a much easier time but for some reason I have difficulty finding ways to do it in fraction form. Given that I am currently student teaching in a 3rd grade classroom, I took the opportunity to perform this weeks post on learning more about solving math problems with fractions with like denominators in a way that I could transfer what I learn to teaching it to children as well.  I started with identifying the standards: CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.3.NF.A.3 Explain equivalence of fractions in special cases, and compare fractions by reasoning about their size. CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.3.NF.A.3.A Understand two fractions as equivalent (equal) if they are the same size, or the same point on a number line. I then found some resources that would be useful for students: ...