Bridges Blog Archive for Tip

Where should you be right now? If you are on track, December starts with Session 48. If you are significantly behind, consider the following to be the essential lessons: Sessions 29, 33, 35, 36, & 40, and 26, 27, & 31 if you have time. If you are in a state with a Supplement, you need to add to this list the Sessions in the gray boxes. If you are behind, use only the first two or three days to change over your calendar in Number Corner. If you are teaching half-day sessions, are you taking a lot of your math periods up with Work Places?

Where should you be now? If you’re on track you are close to, or done, with Unit 2. The year I had a student teacher, finishing the last unit exactly the day before school let out in June, I was finishing Unit Two and just starting Unit Three the week before winter break started. Hopefully you’re a little ahead of where I was. There are 21 Sessions in Unit 3, and you have approximately 33 teaching days in December and January. If you should happen to finish before the end of January, just go straight into Penguins.

December Number Corner Planners, filled out for each day of December, have been posted on the support page. I think the most important thing to know is that you can make the quilt calendar pieces or download the new Alternate Calendar markers, and that you start Kid Count on the second day. Kid Count is full of interesting activities such on the 14th and 16th where they have to figure out the numbers on the upside down cards.

Although I was born without the gene dedicated to organization, other teachers excel in this area.

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

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!

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.