Guided Math: Small Group Instruction

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Today we will talk about my Guided Math Small Group Lesson Plan Instruction! My Guided Math Small Group Instruction takes place every day. I meet with each group for 15-20 minutes. I always start with my Strategic Intervention group. I try to have all of my guided math small group lessons plan templates revolve around one of my Guided Practice Workmats. These workmats directly correlate to the skill that we are working on. I put my workmats in clear page-protectors and my students use dry-erase markers and math manipulatives on top of the Guided Practice Workmats. Are you interested? Keep reading to learn how small group guided math instruction can benefit all your students!

Every single lesson I teach has a workmat that I use during my guided math small group instruction. You can see my my 1st through 4th grade workmats/lessons/activities for each unit at the links below:

I always put the math manipulatives that we are working with in small baskets. This way, my teacher table stays organized and neat while I am guiding the lesson and the students are working.

My three groups are differentiated which helps those struggling/excelling students. I have a Strategic Intervention group, an On-Level group, and an Advanced group. If I have a larger class size sometimes I will have two Strategic Intervention Groups or On-Level Groups.  However, that always depends on my class size and the results of my pre-assessments and how I group my students for each unit of study.

Benefits of Guided Math Small Group Instruction

Guided Math Small group instruction allows you to truly differentiate your lessons. It allows you to offer rigorous, targeting instruction on that particular group’s ability level. By utilizing small group instruction, this allows you to help your students learn and practice mathematical discourse.  The students have the opportunity to engage in meaningful discussions about strategies they are using to solve the problems they are working on. This also helps students who have difficulty putting their ideas into words and allows them to hear their peers’ explanations.

In addition, it allows you the opportunity to clear up any misconceptions or struggles that students are demonstrating. In addition to a quick remedy to the confusion.  If you are teaching whole group lessons, sometimes you might not even have the time or ability to catch a student’s confusion until the lesson is over. You may not even catch it until the following day when you are reviewing their work!!! Trust me, it happens to all of us!

Lastly, I have found that students feel much more confident about their math skills when they are able to have more 1-1 interaction with the teacher. Thus getting them immediate help when they are confused on a skill/problem. In addition to their confidence level increasing with each small win they feel during small group instruction.

Small group math instruction solves all of these issues and benefits students by allowing them to grasp the skills and strategies you are teaching much more quickly than during a whole group lesson.

So..in a nutshell that is my WHY! These are all the reasons and benefits that I teach math instruction in small groups! 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!

Guided Math That Works

Are you 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.

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 Professional Development Workshop can be done in the comfort of your own home or even in your PJs! Where you will begin to see your students’ math success SOAR!

Here is an overview of the modules:

(WAIT until you see the BONUSES included!!!)

Chat with you soon…

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5 thoughts on “Guided Math: Small Group Instruction”

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  2. I am very impressed with your work here. I am trying to convince my team to “buy” into this program. I was wondering if you’d be willing to send me a lesson-any lesson-that shows how it is differentiated? I have downloaded your “implementation” giveaway, but those lessons don’t show the differentiation. I have tried to see this through the previews, but it is too difficult. I appreciate your consideration of my request.

  3. This looks amazing! Is there a way to purchase your small group lesson plans and work mats separate from the rest of the center work?

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