Teaching Tracks and Corrections Tips

Teaching Tracks and Corrections Tips

A few teaching suggestions for presenting track exercises are:

• Use clear and appropriate signals for group responses: Have students read and/or touch the facts and problems on the relevant signals used. For example, ‘Say the subtraction fact for number family’ or ‘Touch number family B’. 

• Monitor students: Walk among the students as they are working in their workbooks and responding to signals, ensuring that they are tracking along, moving their mouths and reading the problems or facts. 
• Affirm each word: Say yes and repeat the word immediately after the students read the response in unison. For example, if students read all the words in the number family ‘4 times 9 equals 36’, the teacher immediately follows by saying, ‘Yes, 4 times 9 equals 36’. This lets students know they were correct and prevents them from making more errors. 
• Correction procedures: All types of errors used in Corrective Mathematics are direct and immediate. Practise the correction procedures until they become a seamless and automatic teaching process. Choral response corrections are presented as a group with repeated practice, while the individual student making the error is never singled out.