Beginning Information:

Our textbooks:

Atkins uses the EnVisions program from Pearson.  This is made up of three major portions of time.  Students do have a consumable textbook, meaning that they are able to write in the textbooks.  Because my students will need the books, I ask that these stay at the school inside your child's desk.  I guide my students to remove the needed pages and place them into their homework folders at the close of our lesson daily.  If a textbook becomes lost, we may not be able to replace it.

Student Activities During the Lesson:

Our first section of the lesson is the Solve and Share time.  During this time a scenario is posed to all students.  Students are given individual think time to brainstorm how to solve the problem.  Then, as a small table group, students will be given time to discuss different strategies that they used to resolve the problem.  All students are asked to share, whether it is with a partner or with their small group.  Before moving on, we go over the solution and share some different ways to model or solve it.  This will be expected to be reflected in your child's math notes packet (part of their textbook) and should be brought home daily to help review the math or help with the practice.

The second section of our lesson is the Visual Learning Bridge (or the "Information In" section).  During this, the teacher shares the learning target for the day, and students watch an interactive learning video that walks them through the concept.  A slightly different problem is then posed for students to resolve with their groups or partners.  After that,  the teacher uses 3-4 problems to guide students through the procedures necessary (slowly releasing it to the students), then students are given select problems to solve (sometimes alone, sometimes with one partner).  When time is almost done, the teacher goes over the problems.

Our third section of the lesson moves rather quickly.  This is the time when students are sent into stations that were created by the EnVision curriculum.  Examples of this are team games, math and science activities, digital tool practice.  During this time, the teacher is supposed to be working with small groups of students who struggled during that lesson.  Pearson Realize, which directly matched the lesson learned, offers students a chance to show what they know and to get differentiation.

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