Teaching Practice Task 1 – Weekly Reflections

Program link: This task is associated to the guidelines of the content courses EPC 3403 –
Practicum 3a, EPR 3003 – Mathematics for the Primary School Teacher and EPR 3203 –
Mathematics Teaching Methods for the Primary School Teacher. It is a reflection of how you
have applied the theories learned in the college courses.

Objective: Write your weekly reflection in paragraph form (in a blog on your wix website).
You should complete a reflection of a min. of 150 words for each week. Remember, it is your
personal account of your thoughts, feelings and reactions during your time in the school.

You can use this table to make notes / jot down ideas during TP. It would also be helpful to
consistently reflect on your professional development. When completed you will upload your
work to your blog and add pictures to support the ideas written about.

How is Math delivered in the classroom? What were the learning outcomes taught?
Were all levels (E, D, and M) taught? How (or why not if they weren’t)?

How was your Math Talk during the lessons that you were teaching Math or working
with small groups?

What did you do to create and maintain a positive environment in the classroom?

How was your timing for your transitions? Did it go smoothly? Did you get caught up
in what you were doing and forget the time? Were the students noisy/calm?

How did you introduce the math center this week? 1 day/over a few days/during
other lessons/whole class/guided groups?

How did you monitor the learning when the children were working on their activities?
Did you use rubrics? How did it go?

Did you observe any math strategies this week? Or did you teach any math
strategies? Or did the teacher teach/use any math strategies when teaching?