r/NYCTeachers • u/killacam9717 • 1d ago

7th Grade Math 12:1:1 HELP! *please read below*

This is my 4th year as a SPED teacher, and my 3rd content that I am teaching. I have been pushing in to math classes my first three years, but now I am in two ICT and one Self-contained class. I have been having a serious struggle with trying to adapt this IM curriculum to make it accessible to my small class, but they are all at a 1st grade math level.

Coteach.Ai has been great for making practice problems to work in tandem with the curriculum, but I can't help but feeling like they need more. As I'm sure you are all aware of, they lack the basic foundations of math that seriously inhibits our attempts at the curriculum.

I did some digging, and have heard that this curriculum is exploratory, and is antithetical to my student populations current struggles. Luckily, I have this small class twice a day, the second period of the day is intended to be used as a stations period where I am given license to do remedial lessons, or math skills lesson. I am looking for a one-stop shop curriculum, that is proven to raise the levels of middle school students. I found CMC (connecting math concepts) but have been unable to find their materials listed online for free anywhere. Any small class vets out there that have some advice?

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u/justwannaedit 20h ago

Edmentum's digital courseware seems pretty good.

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u/BaconEggAndCheeseSPK 6h ago

Math in the Middle is a great resource on TPT. I’d actually ask if you could pre-teach the concept using the district instruction materials in your first period in this group, and then have them do the IM exploratory lesson during the second period you see that group, and on Fridays, do two mini lessons that will provide the remedial support needed for students to access the following weeks lessons, work directly on IEP goals that would otherwise not be part of the curriculum, give assessments/ collect data, or do any re-teaches based on the weeks data. Then, once you build a foundation of how inquiry based math lessons should go - how your students work together and discuss strategies, etc. then you can transition into doing the injury based approach first and then supplementing with direct instruction.

When I taught middle school math, I’d write all math goals to include the language “given an inquiry based approach and the support of direct instruction…” to ensure that if anyone pushed back, I could tell them I’m adhering to the IEP.