Reflection of a moment of my practice intended to target my Instructional Goals:

A moment during my teaching in which I was attempting to target my

instructional goals occurred during the full class discussion. A student had come up to the
front of the class to share his thinking about how it was possible to measure the line using
the broken ruler. He talked about how we can change the numbers 3, 4, 5, to 0, 1, 2; that
is, he was thinking about the flexibility of the zero point. As this was one of our
instructional goals, I chose to draw attention to this important contribution, and to
rephrase what he had said.
After the student had finished speaking I said, Everyone listen up, Eddy just said
something really great! On the ruler, each centimeter is the same, so even if the ruler is
broken it doesnt matter, because each centimeter will still be the same. So, Eddy said we
can change the three (to a zero) to a zero, and then the four (to one) to one, and the five to
two we can just pretend its a different number.
In this moment I chose to orient the other students to this students thinking, by
asking for their attention and then rephrasing the idea. My goal in that moment was to
highlight the idea of the flexibility of the zero point in measurement. This moment helped
other students to focus on what was being said, and to see how we can change any
number to be zero, because I asked everyone to listen carefully, pointed out that it was an
important idea, and rephrased it for all to hear.

Sample of the students work.