1) I teach math to both 7th and 8th graders. I love math and I decided that I wanted to help students learn to love math the same way I do.

2) My students have a very hard time with attention and effort. If they come across a word or problem that they struggle with they immediately give up and generally begin acting up in class. Most of them have a very hard time with reading comprehension. They can read a problem but then they have no idea what information was given or what they are supposed to do. However, if I read the same words out loud to them they understand it just fine.

As far as strengths go, many of my students are very smart when they decide to put their mind to it. If I can get them to want to do the math they learn it well and succeed. This is not easy to do. They are also very good at making noise and distractions for the class and getting me off topic.

3) I want to learn how to teach the students to read a problem and get information from the text and apply this to the math that they know to solve the problem. I want to learn how to teach reading comprehension in my math class.