Today I started my observation in a 5th grade classroom. I am observing at Riverview in Spanish Fork. While I was there the teacher, Mrs. Thompson, was teaching a math lesson. As I sat in the back and observed, my first thoughts were "I cannot wait to be a teacher!"
While she was teaching a math lesson I noticed that she was using every thing we have recently learned. The children were struggling with the new concept and therefore she tried many different strategies. She let the children be in a partnership and they had the privilege to decide how to figure out the math problem in a way that would benefit them.
I noticed that she also used the eight intelligences. They could decide which way worked best for them. Some of the kids used blocks, some used paper, some used their partner, and some used a calculator. I thought this was a great example of the eight intelligences. While she was teaching she also used all three of the learning modalities. She used auditory and talked them through it, she used visual and showed them pictures and drew on the white board, and she used kinesthetic and let them do hands on activities. Using a variety of techniques she was able to portray the new math concept and they were able to grasp onto it.
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