Education 1100 Site Visit Notes

Student Name: Abigail Wright Date/Site Visit

Number: 3/10/17

School: Blackhawk Middle School Grade

Level/Subject: 6th Math

Using the space provided below, briefly summarize todays

classroom experience.
Standard 5- Instructional Delivery
Identify the Illinois
Professional Teaching
Standard(s) targeted
in todays
experience.

The students were doing test corrections while I was

wandering the room waiting for students to ask
Identify the activities
that occurred today,
questions. A group of students did not understand
which addressed the what the directions were asking them in the problem,
teaching standards so I had to reinterpret the directions and try to explain
identified above. it in a different way. After the first time, three students
Then describe what understood while one did not. Again, I had to
you learned.
reinterpret the directions and try to explain it another
way to show the student what was expected of them.
By putting the question into context of the student, he
was able to understand what was being asked.
By using multiple strategies in explaining the
directions, each student was able to think of the
Describe the impact
of the performance
problem in their own way and think about the problem
activities on student critically. I now really understand how different each
learning. student thinks, which will help me in the future when a
student has an issue with something like directions.
I realize now how important it is to be able to explain
one concept five of six different ways. Not every
Describe any
additional activities
student will understand something the first time, or
of significance that even the second time. By explaining the same
occurred today. direction in many different ways, it gives each student
the opportunity to understand the problem quickly and
efficiently the first time.
How does the way a question is asked influence the
way a student interprets the question?
General comments
and observations
including at least one
emerging question.