Project Review

This past week I have been finishing my intervention project with my student. I wasn't sure if we would reach our goal but we did. I wanted to improve my students working memory capacity during math time. The student that I worked with struggled with identifying the sums of ten. This was a skill he had been working on since the beginning of the year and was a goal on his IEP.

One of the discussions on the blog took us back to the topic of working memory. The speaker in the video that was posted touched on strategies that can be used to improve working memory. One of the strategies he talked about was practice along with repetition. My intervention was titled the taped intervention. It involved me making recording of the math facts I wanted him to learn. I would say the math problem, for example 4+6=_____ and pause for about five seconds. The student is suppose to write or say the answer to the problem before the teacher gives the answer after the pause.

When we first started this process there were a few changes we had to make. I had to make a few different recordings of myself saying the math facts because I was saying them to fast. My goal was not for him to decrease response time just to be able to identify the different sums of ten without using a manipulative to count. By the end of the intervention my students was able to say and or write the sums of ten without the assistance of the recording. Even though he has mastered identifying the sums of ten, I am going to keep giving him the fact sheets before the math lesson as maintenance or practice.