Bridges Blog Archive for October 2010

Preparing for a Substitute Teacher

Cynthia Hockman-Chupp   |   October 29, 2010

During Bridges workshops, teachers offer advice on preparing lessons for a substitute teacher. Here are a few of their tips...

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Blended Classrooms

Cynthia Hockman-Chupp   |   October 26, 2010

Teaching a Blended Class? On the Bridges by Grade page select your grade level to find an overview of alternative approaches to consider when teaching in Blended Classrooms.

Have a tip to share on teaching Blended Classes? Please comment!

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Questioning Strategies (with English/Spanish pdfs)

Cynthia Hockman-Chupp   |   October 22, 2010

Certain questions are particularly effective in empowering our students as members of a community of math learners. When posted in the classroom, questions might first serve as a reminder for teachers. Over time, however, as students hear teachers utilizing the questions, they also begin to use them with classmates. In a Bridges classroom, students become increasingly skillful at sharing their thinking, nurtured by teachers' sincere respect and genuine interest.

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Bridges Grade 1 Advice for Unit 2, Sessions 15-25

Dennis Adams   |   October 21, 2010
Work Places 2  Planner B is added in Session 16, on or inside their Work Place folders. Flap the new planner over Planner A, as children will be working off both planners for a while.

Sessions 20-22, “50 or Bust!” can be an activity that may not come easily to some first graders, but notice you play it three times or more. The cards provide a visual model to help them figure out totals. When you're playing the whole-group lesson, have Unifix cubes in trains of 10 handy and remember to change pen colors with each new round.
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Bridges Grade 2 Advice for Unit 3, Sessions 1-13

Dennis Adams   |   October 21, 2010
I will discuss Sessions 1 through 13 in Unit Three in this entry and the remaining sessions in this unit in December.
 
If you are in a state using a Bridges supplement, be sure to check the Unit 3 replacement planner (around page 11 of the supplement). In some states Sessions 9-11 are replaced by Supplement Set D1, Measurement – Duration, Activities 1-3.
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