Think back to the
previous week of mathematics instruction in your classroom. How much of the
instruction was whole class? Why did you choose that instructional method?
A very small portion of my maths time was whole class
instruction. The reason I did use it was because after group teaching I saw a
gap in all students learning and decided it would be more time efficient and
beneficial if I taught as a whole class.
In which situation do
you use whole class instruction most frequently? How effective is it in those
situations?
Generally I have found that I use it at the start of a unit
as a way of refreshing the whole class and introducing to the topic. With my
fractions unit I taught a whole class session on naming and identifying the
most common fractions. I used it because I couldn’t see the point in going over
with each group individually, it also was a time to help generate discussion
and feed some useful vocab into them.
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