Making Time
Whole Group
- Read the lesson ahead of time (gasp!) and highlight the most important parts.
- Until you get used to delivering short whole group lessons, practice giving your lesson to a stuffed animal the night before.
- Prep any example problems prior to the lesson so that time is not wasted with you writing on the board while students just watch.
- Don’t repeat yourself over and over. It is a teacher habit and we all do it, but students get used to it and stop listening.
- Hold off on the manipulatives if possible. Perhaps you can draw pictures instead.
- Don’t have kids come up to the board to complete a problem. Have everyone do it on their whiteboards and then quickly teach their partner how they solved.
The Key
Schedule for Four Groups (Larger Class):
Schedule for Three Groups (Smaller Class):
Posting the Schedule
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Your site and information is so informative and helpful- thank you for providing this. I can’t wait to try the math stations in my Eureka math block. I already get 86 minutes, so I know I can make it happen!
Love this! But what do you do on Fridays?
I think make a game for wrapping all the math up
We reserve large blocks of time for social studies and science on Fridays rather than short blocks the rest of the week.
What do you do on Fridays for the math block?
I am looking for the weekly planning template to use to weekly plan. Thanks!!