Focus Student Reflection

Although both of my focus students were able to achieve the learning goal, a few of my students were not. My class average, after grading their worksheets, was between a 80% or 85%. For the students that did not grasp the concept, I would bring out a hundreds chart for them to use. These charts tend to help students because they are comfortable using them. I did not initially suggest using them because I do not want my students relying on them. During the gradual release, I would ask students to come back to the carpet if they are not ready to be on their own yet. With this small group we would work through a few more problems together, again having a student coming up for each step. This will allow them extra support and guidance needed to comprehend the learning goal.
I will continue planning lessons and look at other student needs and start to think what I can do for them so that they too can achieve their goals. For example, there is another student in my class that is very similar to focus student number two and would benefit from staying in a small group setting for longer before going on to independent work. Now that I have proof that this modification has worked for focus student number two, I can now plan on adapting the lesson for this other student and see if it can help him as