an hour/5th grade

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an hour/5th grade
By Margaret916

We ability-group within the grade level for math so we have a one hour block of time that we switch kids to different math classes for instruction and practice.

In our hour (in my class) we usually correct/review
homework, learn something or re-teach something and do some in class practice with an activity or something.

The hard part is when the hour is up -- your kids have to switch back, whether you have finished or not. I know, i know, departmentalized teachers do this all the time. But my self-contained flexible schedule self likes to reteach on the spot when something isn't working

or it's going so well I want to start somthing else!

I dont' think that the negative i listed above though, outweighs how much our kids are progressing in our different groups (one compacted/advanced and four mixed ability where two of the four have an extra teacher and kids with math goals) so that I'd want to change it.

Whoa I rambled on. So sorry.