Education 1100 Site Visit Notes

Student Name: Abigail Wright Date/Site Visit

Number: 2/24

School: Blackhawk Middle School Grade

Level/Subject: 6th Math

Using the space provided below, briefly summarize todays

classroom experience.
Standard 3 - Planning for Differentiated Instruction
Identify the Illinois
Professional Teaching
Standard(s) targeted
in todays
experience.

Some students needed to finish their assessments,

while others worked on different assignments based
Identify the activities
that occurred today,
off of the knowledge they had for the new unit. I
which addressed the worked with some students who already had some
teaching standards sort of background on equations, while Mrs. McKenna
identified above. worked with those that did not know anything about it.
Then describe what To strengthen their understanding, I gave examples of
you learned.
simple equations, which allowed the students to ask
questions about more complicated equations that they
would learn later in the unit. Also, I corrected work on
their unit preview and showed them an easy step to
take while solving equations with fractions. Mrs.
Mckenna helped the struggling students by writing on
the board how the numbers change while solving the
equation and how the values change from step to
step.
Since each student had a different starting level with
equations, the activity was able to help Mrs. McKenna
Describe the impact
of the performance
and I gage what the students actually knew, compared
activities on student to what they thought they knew. Also, each student
learning. could work at his/her own pace and ask questions
when necessary. It was easier to work one-on-one with
the students when they are all at a different working
point, so they did not feel pressured to speed up and
possibly not understand the work they were doing.
The students used a program on their laptops that
gave them immediate feedback on each question they
Describe any
additional activities
answered, with an explanation as to why their answer
of significance that is correct or incorrect. This program helped the
occurred today. student prevent future mistakes and also allowed for
 them to have two different explanations if they choose
to ask the teacher as well.
General comments How does each students prior knowledge to the topic
and observations influence the way they learn the new information
including at least one
emerging question.
being presented?