A Resource Math Class At A Middle School For This Field...

I choose to do an onsite visit in a resource math class at a middle school for this field project. I was there from 9:30-1:00. The classroom I observed had 2-3 teachers in it at a time. One student teacher, one head teacher and sometimes a teacher that had to help a specific student would be in the classroom. There were about 15 students in the class at a time. Two of which had to have teachers who followed them to every class. I asked the head teacher how many of these students have a learning disability and she said that about three quarters of them have a learning disability. I then asked her why the students might be in the class. She said â€Å"Well, because one of two reasons. Students either have hard time learning math the normal way or the normal math class just moves at too fast a pace for them.† She also explained that the middle school had three mainstream math classes for seventh graders and three mainstream math classes for the eighth graders. 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