Introduction
THE NEED
Trends in mathematics classrooms
Evaluation myths/misconceptions
Brainstorming (next steps)
THE GOAL
Higher student achievement
Increasing our teaching effectiveness
HOW?
Through engagement and its relation to a high
culture for learning and planning to support it
Culture Shift
Remember
Its about working smarter, not
harder
Not reinventing the wheel
Collaborating
PREFACE
Underlying Supports to Ensure Higher Intellectual
Engagement
team
a list of responses or
When all teams are seated, all items have been shared and the list
is complete.
THE FOREWORD
Plan what formative assessment you will use and what you
are specifically looking for
Effective teachers know that everything needs to be
monitored
Monitoring creates opportunities to give students feedback
Feedback is a motivator and creates a feeling of
investment in the activity.
Invested students are engaged students.
Tips
THE FOCUS
(While you are the student, out of the corner of your eye,
watch they dynamic of the other students and the room in
general)
Unstructured
Group
Discussion
Compare &
Repair
Structure
Positive
Interdependenc
e (do they need
each other?)
Positive but
only one
student
independent of
everyone else
Positive but
unstructured
Positive and
cant do the
activity by
yourself (need
partner for next
step/check)
Individual
Accountability
No
No
Yes
Equal
Participation
No
No (can have
freeloaders)
Yes
Simultaneous
Interaction
No
1/30 = 3.3%
Interactive Lecture/Think-Pair-Share
(see handout)
For example,
-Give students a paper cylinder taped together from a net.
-Have them measure it and cut it apart to make a net (write
the measurements on the pieces).
-Have them come up with their way of finding surface area
(give them the definition first). Have another group check their arithmetic for correctness.
Then, verify with an answer key.
-Discuss why their method worked or didnt work.
(Variation: instead of or after measurements, use variables for the sides)
Other Ideas:
http://insidemathematics.org
(An initiative that grew out of the Noyce
Foundations Silicone Valley Mathematics
Initiative)
Other Resources
Books:
Teach Like A Champion by Doug Lemov
Implementing the Framework by Charlotte
Danielson (the thick book probably already at your
school sites for reference)
Styles and Strategies for Teaching High School
Mathematics: 21 Techniques for Differentiating
Instruction and Assessment by Thomas, Brunsting
and Warrick.
Through Ebony Eyes by Gail Thompson
Driven by Data: A Practical Guide to Improving
Instruction by Paul Bambrick-Santoyo
Contact Information
Lindsey Robertson
Email: lindsey.robertson@sdhc.k12.fl.us
Rosanna Woldridge
Email: rosanna.woldridge@sdhc.k12.fl.us
(We will email website links to
participants)