Positive Behavior Week 3
What does the cooperative teacher do to encourage a positive classroom community? In a math lesson on fractions, the teacher demonstrated how to fold a paper strip in equal thirds. Each strip of paper was cut at exactly the same size. Then the student were asked to draw a line on the crease, then write 1/3 in each section. Then the students were given another strip of paper the exact same size and fold it into thirds. Then they were asked to fold that in half, creating sixths. I was busy running from desk to desk helping the student’s line up the ends of the paper before creasing it. One student on the front row had folded her paper into ninths. She realized she had too many sections for sixths so she cut three of the sections off her paper and wrote, 1/6 in each. However, this student did not realize that by cutting the paper, the portions were no longer equal fractions to the thirds paper. She did not ridicule the child or make her feel bad for what she had do