Wednesday, August 24th, 2016 at 3:30
Location: Kristi Story’s Room (Sixth Grade hallway)
Kristi Story, Kerry Coote, Becky Holden
Vision for the school year
Goals:
- 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
- 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.
- To help teams facilitate and implement the instructional core of student, teacher, and mathematical content
Math Meeting Dates and Times for 2016-2017
- Wednesday, August 24th, 2016 at 3:30pm
- Monday, September 19th, 2016 at 3:00pm
- Monday, October 17th, 2016 at 3:00pm
- Monday, November 14th, 2016 at 3:00pm
- Monday, December 5th, 2016 at 3:00pm
- Wednesday, January 4th, 2017 at 3:30pm
- Monday, February 27th, 2017 at 3:00pm
- Monday, March 27th, 2017 at 3:00pm
- Monday, May 3rd, 2017 (Last Meeting) at 3:00pm
Today’s Learning Plan
3:30 | 10 min | Welcome and overview of today’s meeting | |
3:40 | 15 min | Number Talk (anticipated, notice and note) | Kristi |
3:55 | 10 min | Formative Assessment | Becky |
4:15 | 10 min | Growth Mindset | Kerry |
4:20 | 5 min | Sharing the “Good Stuff” | Jill |
4:25 | 5 min | Feedback – “I learned…, “I liked…,”I felt…” |
Materials Needed: laptop, pencil, paper, calculator
REMEMBER: #mathMondays #TrinityLearns
Resources:
- Articles and videos on Growth Mindset
- YouCubed Mindset Boosting Videos
- When You Believe In Yourself Your Brain Operates Differently by Jo Boaler (@joboaler)
- Positive Classroom Norms from Stanford University
- TEDxStanford: How you can be good at math, and other surprising facts about learning
Children books that speak to a growth mindset
- It’s Okay to Make Mistakes by Todd Parr
- The Most Magnificent Thing by Ashley Spires
- Making a Splash by Carol E. Reiley
- Thanks for the Feedback: I Think by Julia Cook
- Your Fantastic Elastic Brain: Stretch It, Shape It by JoAnn Deck
- The Girl Who Never Made Mistakes by Mark Pett and Gary Rubinstein
- What Do You Do With a Problem by Kobi Yamada