My school has an incredibly high proportion of students who arrive to 7th grade math not prepared. Students are often multiple grade levels behind. My school is an international baccalaureate school in the Napa Valley. There is a large portion of students who are living in poverty level situations and a large portion of the students who attend the school are English Learners or from homes where English is not the language spoken.
For the literature review, I do not even know where to start as I do not understand what is being asked of me to complete. I am working with other members of the class to try and figure out what is necessary for this assignment and how it relates to the Action Research paper. I also still have not figured out a focus for my research paper, which is another thing that is making it difficult to figure out the literature review as I am not even really sure where to start.
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I have had a very difficult time trying to figure out my topic. I have been mulling it over for weeks and with every new reveal of the different parts of the paper and with my understanding of what we are doing changing with every week, I have continued to struggle nailing down a topic for my research paper. My original choice was to focus on the level of rigor in my regular math 7 classes and making sure to keep it in line with the level of rigor I have in my accelerated courses, just at a bit of a slower pace. I have been struggling with this as the students have lacked motivation and exhibit a level of learned helplessness and apathy I have never experienced in my short teaching career. This has made it difficult to teach to the rigor I would like with fidelity and has caused me to continuously revise my idea. This has also caused me to completely shut down and avoid the homework as I just cannot seem to figure out what is being asked of me. Being a teacher, I do know this is the time when I should be asking questions to try and figure out what to do, but I can't even seem to be able to form the questions to ask in order to gain more clarity. These are my concerns and my challenges. I have also recently been dealing with the death of a family member and late homework has become a list item even lower on my ever increasing to do list. It would have been more helpful to have shown us what we would be working towards and examples of what to do from the beginning with a focus on how to do each section of the paper as the classes went on. To wrap up, I am struggling, but I am trying to figure out what to do and to get it done.
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