Resources
- Slide Deck
- Article: The Discipline Where No Black People Earn PhDs
- Math Mindset and Attitudes Survey
- Geoff’s CCSS PrBL Curriculum Maps (Grades 3-11)
- How to build a rubric: specifics before strategy
- Post Workshop Survey (9/21)
Agenda – Saturday (9/21/19)
Teacher Learning Targets
- I can define and explain the concept Academic Safety and how it affects students’ ability to engage with mathematics
- I can define and explain hallmarks of a Quality Task
- I know where to find and/or how to adapt tasks
- I have a strategy or two to assess students along a spectrum of skills
- I know the various components of a rubric and how to create my own
- I know how to use a Bookend Lesson to encourage self-reflection and goal-setting
- I have a toolbox of facilitation moves that promote discourse and understanding for every student in my classroom
| Time | Topic | Cards and resources |
| 8:00am – 8:15am | Getting ready for the day Introductions, overview of objectives and agenda | Intro set All cards |
| 8:15am – 9:15am | Academic Safety Simple Jigsaw (Crosswalk with Effective Facilitation) Select an Academic Safety Card, discuss Excerpt: Active Caring: a how to Establishing structures to monitor and assess academic safety | Academic Safety Cards: AS1, AS2, AS3, AS6, AS8, AS12, EF2 |
| 9:15am – 11:00am | Quality Tasks & Effective Facilitation WODB Number Talk Debrief the tasks and problem-posing routines How do these tasks encourage academic safety? Effective facilitation? | WODB task, PBL Entry Event Cards: Posing a task (EF6) |
| 11:00am – 12:00pm | Effective Facilitation – Norms Chalk Talk protocol – Cards based on Norms Designing Norms for your class What does the norm look like, sound like? Why is this norm important? How will you monitor? Debrief the morning | Sample tasks Cards: Establishing Norms (EF2), Teaching and Reflecting on Norms (EF3), Norm Monitoring (EF4), Strategies for Teaching and Managing Groupwork (EF5) |
| 12:00 – 1:00pm | Lunch | |
| 1:00pm – 2:00pm | Additional task types & Adaptation Bookend lesson – An example of assessing and teaching collaboration Provide collaboration rubric slip of paper Set a goal Mean/Median/Mode Remind of goal Make one of them equal Revisit and reflect on goal Discuss the opposite of this lesson – how you can adapt tasks | |
| 2:00pm – 3:00pm | Additional task types (and teaching with norms) Card Sort Review essential task types and sort by low/medium/high effort | Ten Essential Task Types – QT6 Cards QT7, QT8, QT9, QT10, QT11, QT12, QT13, QT14, QT15, QT16 |
| 3:00pm – 3:30pm | Putting it all together Finding and adapting tasks Lesson planning for the three elements | Lesson Plan Template |
| 3:30pm – 4:00pm | Post Workshop survey |
Additional Websites
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