MARCH 26 T H 2014

Algebra and 8th grade Math Group

Agenda

Welcome: How Many KnotsObjectiveTask Share outTootsie PopsCollaboration TimeReflection

Welcome

“Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” Warren Buffett

Our time together is not always about what happens tomorrow, but what happens down the road.

Objectives

The objective of the day is that we share our experience of using problem solving activities or longer tasks and capture the learning that we had this year.

Each teacher should leave with a lesson or activity that they have feedback on which could be used as evidence in the evaluation.

What teacher moves are you going to incorporate into a lesson to help students persevere?

Teachers Provide Students with Opportunities to

Reason to make senseEngage in productive discourseUse representations flexibly and

appropriately to model mathematicsPersevere to solve problems

Teachers pose problems based on sound and significant mathematics that:

Engage students’ intellectDevelop students’ mathematical

understanding and skillsCall for problem formulation, problem

solving, and mathematical reasoning

What?

What did you take away from the last few PD’s and use in your classroom?

Reason to make senseEngage in productive discourseUse representations flexibly and appropriately to model mathematicsPersevere to solve problems

Engage students’ intellectDevelop students’ mathematical understanding and skillsCall for problem formulation, problem solving, and mathematical reasoning

Tuning Protocol

Purpose Receive feedback Fine-tune teacher lessons/units/student work Collaborative reflection helps educators to design and

refine their assessment In support of developing higher-quality student

performanceProcess

Facilitator reminds everyone of the process Presenter presents their work Clarifying questions of the presenter Close examination of the work presented by participants Feedback from participants Reflection by presenter

Questions to consider when presenting:

How did you create the task or activity?How did it fit in with the lesson plan?How did you do to get all kids involved in

problem solving?What is the culture of the room like when

kids are working?What did you like about the task or activity?What would you differently next time?

How we will present

3 groups

15 minutes to share and get feedback

5 minutes to share out to whole group

Tootsie Pops

How many licks does it take?

I used to think…, But now I think

We have been looking at problem solvingPerformance taskUPScheckModeling CycleTeacher moves to help students persevere

When we began this study of problem solving, you had some initial ideas. In just a few sentences, I want to write what it is that you used to think about problem solving.

Now, I want you to think about how your ideas aboutproblem solving have changed as a result of whatwe’ve been doing/discussing. Again in just a few Sentences write down what you now think about problem solving

Collaboration time

“If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.”

Yogi Berra

Planning lessons helps you know where your going

Reflection

What teacher moves are you going to incorporate into a lesson to help students persevere?

What teacher moves are needed to set up confidence to help students persevere?