Summary Post C4T #4

The fourth teacher that I was assigned to comment on is Mrs. Caren Carillo. In order to comment on Mrs. Carillo's post, you first have to set up a posterous account which I did. The first comment that I made to Mrs. Carillo is in response to her post about how a teacher can use rubrics for any assignment in your class. In Mrs. Carillo's post, she stated how students can sometimes give an answer to a question, but not always completely answer the question. By using the rubric system that she posted, it can give the students a guideline as to whether or not they properly answered the question. I feel like this blueprint is one that really allows the students to evaluate themselves. The second post that I commented on to Mrs. Carillo is dealing with adding and subtracting negative numbers. In this post, she gave a really neat setup in the classroom where students can simply walk the lines to get their answer. She also give instructions on how to use this setup. Any elementary math teacher should really view this blog because I feel like this is a really neat idea in terms of getting your students to learn how to add and subtract negative numbers. Anyone who wants to view Mrs. Carillo's blog can do so at http://carencarillo.posterous.com/