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Service Four: CLASSROOM DEMONSTRATIONS
Debby demonstrating in a third grade classroom at Bartow Elementary Academy in Bartow, FL.
More than anything, Debby and Libby enjoy teaching children! This is what they did for more than 50 combined years! This service of demonstrating in classrooms is tops on their list! Administrators tell us that when the bby gals are in the building, the joy of teaching and learning mathematics becomes contagious!
Teachers from California to Florida have welcomed our unique style of conducting Classroom Demonstrations! We specialize in coming into your classrooms and demonstrating effective strategies for teaching mathematics. Teachers and children alike LOVE the Classroom Demonstrations. Teachers love to watch their children in action with another teacher. They also appreciate seeing the mathematics and questioning techniques in action.
Here is how it works. Once you schedule a day or more for us to work in your school, we will begin to make a plan. We will work with a representative from your school or district to develop a model and schedule that will work best for your teachers and your children. Sometimes substitute teachers are hired to cover classrooms to release teachers to watch the demonstration lesson and attend a short debriefing session immediately after the lesson. Other times, you will find Debby or Libby alone in a classroom with a teacher and his/her children. A classroom demonstration is usually 30-60 minutes in length, depending upon the age of the children. Demonstrations for younger children are shorter in length than those for older children. As you can see, we can conduct several classroom demonstration lessons in one day.
Debby and Kimmie discuss the different strategies Kimmie is using to determine the areas of the shapes in this 5th grade geometry lesson.
(Floral Avenue Elementary School, Bartow, Florida)
Many schools schedule after-school seminars at the end of a day of Demonstration Lessons. Other schools, who may have scheduled several days of demonstrations, schedule grade-level meetings. For example, if we are in your school for 3 days of demonstrations, we might conduct three separate after school meetings...grades K-1(day one), grades 2-3 (day two), and grades 4-5 (day three). At these meetings we will discuss the demonstrations and set goals for the classroom teachers. Most often, additional Classroom Demonstrations are scheduled for a month or two later, which allows the classroom teachers time to practice what they have learned, work to meet their goals, and be ready for more!
We pride ourselves in the personalization of this service. Teachers and administrators alike have found our Classroom Demonstrations followed by debriefing sessions most valuable.
Do you want references? We will be most happy to recommend someone for you to contact to find out for yourself about our Classroom Demonstrations.
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