06.07.17 Empower Learners #TrinityLearns

Summer Literacy and Math Professional Learning
June 5-9, 2017
Day 3 – Empower Learners
Jill Gough (@jgough) and Becky Holden (@bholden86)

I can empower learners to reach for the next independent level in their learning.

Learning target and pathway:

UED: 8:45 – 11:15  / EED: 12:15 – 2:45

Slide deck

8:45 /
12:15
15 min Norm and Purpose Setting
Read Aloud – 
Giraffes Can’t Dance by
Giles Andreae and Guy Parker-Rees
(@worldofhappy) and (@Guyguyyug)
9:00 /
12:30
45 min Place Value vertical alignment game
(
Whose grade-level is it?)
9:45 /
1:15
15 min Conferring in Math
(similarities and differences to R&W workshop)
from Cathy Fosnot (
@CTFosnot)
10:00 /
1:30
60 min
  • Natasha had $8.72. She spent $4.89 on a gift for
    her mother. How much money does Natasha have left?
  • Seesaw 3-Act Task
    from Graham Fletcher (@GFletchy
  • Gilbert had 81 stickers. Then he bought some more
    and now he has 312 stickers. How many did he buy?
Analyzing student work to practice conferring
(critique the reasoning of others)

  • What is going well?
  • What structure or repeated reasoning do you see?
  • What assessing or advancing question should you ask?

In other words, for each student can you write:

  • I like…because…
  • I wonder…
  • What if…
11:00 /
2:30
15 min Closing this session with purpose

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