As I reflect on the rest of this year I think about my life, my family and of course like any other teacher my career and students. I reflect on the SRA program and the struggle between lesson mastery and lesson progression. I know my kids are low, and may struggle with completing the lessons in a timely manner, but I have to remember to keep moving them along in a "perky pace" so that I can eventually move them along to the next skill. The mathematician in me had to come up with a formula to determine how many lessons I should accomplish in a quarter. I created a bulletin board for all my groups. This was a great visual for myself and my students to help us determine if we were on the right pace. We even created a circle map(Thinking Maps school) to help us brainstorm how we could meet our goal.
It was all going well except for my most difficult struggling group. They were always behind and back two to three lessons compared to the other groups. I needed to progress them but not speed through the lessons. I really had to analyze the groups and determined that the reason for the slowing of the group was due to a few students. I decided to move through the lessons but pull those two students twice a week during recess and "firm up" their lacking skills within the lessons.
When working with students in the SRA program we have to remember that in order to catch them up we have to progress through the lessons at an adequate pace. It does feel like we are racing through the lessons but remember it is 90% review. Ultimately the true race that we have is trying to have these students acquire the necessary skills to be successful in the mainstream classroom.
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