Welcome to our Workshop Blog!
Day 1: Norms and Messages
- Warm Up: 4 dots on x and y axis, each dot representing a team member.
- Mindset Presentation
- Setting Group Norms: When working in groups what helps or hinders your learning? (Photos coming soon)
- Pile Pattern Task
- Summer School Presentation
- Summer School Boys
Readings/Resources:
- Mindsets and Math Achievement - Dweck, 2008
Day 2: Grouping
- Mindset Perspectives of Math, Students & Learning (Photos coming soon)
- Railside and Complex Instruction Presentation: Complex Instruction Roles
- Teacher Moves that Convey Fixed of Growth Mindset (see Google doc)
Day 3: Tasks
- Multiple Representation Matching Activity Shell Center activity – matching various representations
- Growth Mindset Task Framework Presentation
- Number Talks: Presentation, Sample Dot Card, Planning a Number Talk
Readings/Resources:
- Number Talks: Helping Children Build Mental Math and Computation Strategies, Grades K-5 – Parrish, 2010
- Connecting Mathematical Ideas: Middle School Video Cases to Support Teaching and Learning - Boaler & Humphreys, 2005
- Mathalicious: “Teaching standards-based math through real-world topics that students care about”
- Shell Center: A wide range of fully developed tasks, lessons and tests
- Park Math: A variety of open ended math problems
- Illustrative Mathematics: Aligned to Common Core
Day 4: Assessment
- Assessment for Learning Presentation
- Sample Student Rubrics/Self-Assessment: Exemplars Student Rubric, Student Reflection
- Gallery Walk Student Prompts: Useful for use on sticky notes for a gallery walk
- Analyzing Student Work Shell Center systems of equations activity
- Group Brainstorm of Formative Assessment Strategies (Photos coming soon)
- Bringing it Back to Schools Brainstorming:
First Week of School:
Classroom Structures:
Homework:
Readings/Resources:
- Inquiry, Modeling, and Metacognition: Making Science Accessible to All Students - White & Frederiksen, 1998: Research on peer and self-assessment
- Paul Black, Christine Harrison, Clare Lee, Bethan Marshall, and Dylan Wiliam, Assessment for Learning: Putting It into Practice (Buckingham, U.K.: Open University Press, 2003).
