Student Observation Reflection

I observed a freshman high school math classroom and I saw many of the disciplinary practices. They had to do a bell work worksheet of 6 problems and even though they were about different people and different situations, the background math was the same. The teacher chose names and situations that the students may be in with interest and loans. That day was a practice day and the teacher modeled the first problem when going over the bell work. The first one he took his time and said out loud his thinking. Then the next problem he asked a student to answer one part. He kept adding in the students answers until the 5^th problem a student answered the whole thing. Then the students were given a work sheet to compete that was a lot more practice problems. Like I said before, this was a practice day because they all knew what to do without a lecture or reminder of how to do the problems beforehand. This classroom is for students who have trouble with math so a whole practice day would be helpful to these students to get the process down.  Giving them a few situations in word problems also helps them practice taking out the math in the words, so they are able to solve them. It was very interesting to see practices in a real life classroom other than just reading about them.