October 26, 2015
Location: Idea Lab
Kato Nims, Kerry Coote, Erin Collini
Goals:
- Continued work on vertical alignment, including 3s and Prek
- Expanding knowledge of best practices and their role in our current program
- Sharing work with grade level teams to grow our whole community as teachers of math
- Raising the level of teacher confidence in math
- How do we deepen, differentiate, and extend learning for the students in our classroom?
Responsibilities:
- To work as a team to meet the above goals
- To develop a plan for sharing, coaching, and teaching grade level members to further equip them with the tools to further gain confidence as a student of math.
Materials Needed: laptop, pencil, paper
Learning Plan
3:00 | 5 min | Welcome and Check-in |
3:05 | 10 min | Number Talks: Developing common language
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3:15 | 25 min | Designing a Month of Number Talks
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3:40 | 10 min | #MathMondays Sharing |
3:50 | 5 min | Announcements
Feedback “I learned…, “I liked…,”I felt…” |
Resources:
- Not Your Mom’s Flashcards: Conceptual Understanding of Multiplication: via @gfletchy
- When You Believe In Your Students They Do Better from @JoBoaler
- Sherry Parrish: Number Talks: Building Numerical Reasoning video from @NumberTalks – Can we meet one afternoon for popcorn and a movie?
- Jo Boaler: How to Learn Math for Students MOOC
- visualpatterns.org
- http://schoolwires.henry.k12.ga.us/Page/37070
Making Number Talks Matter
Envision Webinars
- 8 Mathematical Practices– Nov 4th 3-3:30pm EST
- Differentiation with Envision 2.0– Nov 18th 1-1:30pm EST
- 8 Mathematical Practices– Dec 10th 2:30-3pm EST