Guided Math: Independent Practice

Guided Math

Let’s chat about INDEPENDENT PRACTICE time during Guided Math Rotations today!

Guided Math Rotations & Workbook Nook Time

After my students meet with me at Teacher Feature for their small group lesson, they will begin their Guided Math rotations to the next round called Workbook Nook. This is the rotation where they work on an independent activity based on the lesson I just taught in small groups. All of my activities that the students complete during Workbook Nook are Interactive Notebook Activities.

My students LOVE doing Interactive Notebook activities because they are not just filling in a boring worksheet. They are active while they are working. They are cutting, gluing, coloring (great for fine motor skills) and thinking. Completely engaged the entire time and always saying how much fun they are having at the Workbook Nook!. After my small group lesson, the students are then given instructions on what they are expected to do during their Workbook Nook time. I give them their math independent practice activity and they go to the math manipulatives station to get the materials that they need. They then can go anywhere in the room they would like to work.

The MAIN REASON that Guided Math runs so smoothly in my classroom is due to one major thing – CONSISTENCY! My independent activities are consistent so they always know what to expect and how to accomplish it. My small group work is CONSISTENT. They always know what to expect during a lesson because my expectations and lessons are CONSISTENT. I no longer have to review directions by mid-October! The students now have an understanding of what is needed to be done in their math independent practice.! Because everything they do is CONSISTENT.

How do I do it?

One question I get ALL THEM TIME is how do you correct all of their work! Take a look at the picture on the left…do you see the notebooks all stacked up and open to the page they just did? That’s the answer! When my students finish their independent work, math station, or math journals, they stack them up in a pile opened to the page they just completed. It takes me less than ten minutes to check all of their work because each book is already opened to the page and they are stacked up. This saves me hours of time each week!

So..in a nutshell that is how I manage my students’ independent work during my Guided Math instruction! If you want to head back to my main post to read the rest of the installments on Get Your Groove On with Guided Math, click here to head on back to my main post to read about the next component of Guided Math!

Interested in learning how to implement Guided Math using a Step-by-Step approach? I have created an online Professional Development Guided Math workshop called Guided Math that Works.

This is Guided Math That Works!

Guided Math that Works is an online Professional Development Workshop that I created for elementary teachers in Grades 1-5! This professional development workshop has been a true labor of love that took me a year to develop to ensure that I took all of my LESSONS LEARNED and mistakes that I made along the way and help YOU AVOID making the same mistakes that I made when I first implemented the Guided Math framework in my classroom and feel successful as soon as you put the guided math gears in motion!

Guided Math that Works provides you with a clear and actionable ROADMAP to easily and efficiently get Guided Math up and running in your classroom! I am teaching you EVERYTHING I have done in my own classroom to have a calm, organized, streamlined, and chaos-free guided math block where you will begin to see your students’ math success SOAR!

Here’s the lowdown on Guided Math that Works…

This Professional Development Workshop includes:

  • 5 Learning Modules that contain 24 video-based lessons
  • 5 hours of learning that can be used towards your professional development requirements
  • PDF downloadable workbooks for each module
  • TONS and TONS of amazing BONUSES in the bonus module of the course (OVER $40 in BONUSES ALONE)

This is a Professional Development Workshop that can be done in the comfort of your own home (PJs acceptable) or your school district can purchase licenses for their teachers through our school district licensing program.

Here is an overview of the modules:

Getting started with your Guided Math routine can be difficult, so to make your life easier CLICK HERE to get a FREEBIE and a quick glimpse of my Guided Math That Works Workshop!

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Hi, I'm Anna! I was a primary teacher for over twenty-three years, wife of a firefighter, mother of twin teenage boys, obsessed with being creative and helping teachers and love my Saturday morning quiet cup of coffee!
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