Welcome to ITP 524:

Secondary Math Methods

Class 9: Wednesday March 12

Agenda

1. Welcome!
2. Community Building Activity (4:45 - 5:00pm)
3. My Math Instruction Assignment (5:00 - 6:00pm)
4. Break (6:00 - 6:30pm)
5. Winter Term Reflection (6:30 - 7:40)

Learning Objectives

Teachers will …

1. Describe features of “current” math education (5 practices, productive student talk moves, questioning strategies, student development of academic language)

Course Standards

Teachers will …

1. Develop teaching strategies which can facilitate students’ mathematical thinking and understanding (observing and listening to students as they work individually and collaboratively, orchestrating whole-class discussions of students’ solutions in order to make salient key mathematical ideas, processes, and strategies)

Community Building Activity

4:45 - 5:00pm

Community Building Activity

Get together with your edTPA group

and check in as you see fit:)

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OR

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Pictionary

My Math Instruction Assignment

5:30 - 6:10pm

Culturally Relevant Pedagogy

Gloria Ladson-Billings

Cultural Competence

(maintain students’ cultural integrity and use students’ culture as a vehicle for learning)

Critical/Socio-Political Consciousness

(develop students’ consciousness that allows them to critique cultural norms, values, mores, and institutions that produce and maintain social inequities)

Academic Achievement/Success

(develop students’ academic

skills and excellence)

Culturally Relevant Pedagogy

Gloria Ladson-Billings

Aspects of Student Learning

(Standards for Math Content

and Practices, Conceptual Understanding, Procedural Fluency, Academic Language)

“Effective” Teaching Practices

Develop/Select

Worthwhile Tasks

(Justify and Explain, Solve with Drawings, Relevant Contexts, Verify & Relate Strategies, Multiple Entry & Exit Points, High Cognitive Demand)

Academic Achievement & Success

Probe & Elicit Student Thinking

Lesson Planning

Facilitating Meaningful Math Discourse

5 Practices (Anticipating, Monitoring, Selecting, Sequencing, Connecting)

Assessment

Promote Equitable Participation (drawing on student assets and smarts, status/power hierarchies)

Student Talk Moves

(Revoicing, Repeating, Reasoning, Adding On, Waiting)

Posing Purposeful Questions

My Math Instruction Assignment

Check out the My Math Instruction Assignment

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Let’s have each person share the following:

• The teacher moves that each person selected
• Artifacts that you collected demonstrating how you used each teacher move

6:00 - 6:30pm

Break Time!

Back at 7:20pm

Winter Term Reflection:

Looking backwards and forwards

6:30 - 7:40pm

Winter Term Reflection

What did we study and learn about this term?

Cultural Competence

(maintain students’ cultural integrity and use students’ culture as a vehicle for learning)

Critical/Socio-Political Consciousness

(develop students’ consciousness that allows them to critique cultural norms, values, mores, and institutions that produce and maintain social inequities)

Academic Achievement/Success

(develop students’ academic

skills and excellence)

Culturally Relevant Pedagogy

Gloria Ladson-Billings

Aspects of Student Learning

(Standards for Math Content

and Practices, Conceptual Understanding, Procedural Fluency, Math Reasoning, Problem-Solving Skills, Academic Language)

“Effective” Teaching Practices

Develop/Select

Worthwhile Tasks

(Justify and Explain, Solve with Drawings, Relevant Contexts, Verify & Relate Strategies, Multiple Entry & Exit Points, High Cognitive Demand)

Academic Achievement & Success

Probe & Elicit Student Thinking

Lesson Planning

Facilitating Meaningful Math Discourse

5 Practices (Anticipating, Monitoring, Selecting, Sequencing, Connecting)

Promote Equitable Participation (drawing on student assets and smarts, status/power hierarchies)

Student Talk Moves

Posing Purposeful Questions

Assessment

Cultural Competence

Identity

(e.g., gender, race, class, culture, language proficiency)

Personal, Cultural, and Community Assets and Strengths

Personal and Societal Biases

Power and Status Hierarchies

In- and Out-of-SchoolMath Experiences

Critical/Socio-Political

Consciousness

Teaching Math for Social Justice

Aspects of Student Learning

(Standards for Math Content

and Practices, Conceptual Understanding, Procedural Fluency, Math Reasoning, Problem-Solving Skills, Academic Language)

“Effective” Teaching Practices

Develop/Select

Worthwhile Tasks

(Justify and Explain, Solve with Drawings, Relevant Contexts, Verify & Relate Strategies, Multiple Entry & Exit Points, High Cognitive Demand)

Academic Achievement & Success

Probe & Elicit Student Thinking

Lesson Planning

Facilitating Meaningful Math Discourse

5 Practices (Anticipating, Monitoring, Selecting, Sequencing, Connecting)

Promote Equitable Participation (drawing on student assets and smarts, status/power hierarchies)

Student Talk Moves

Posing Purposeful Questions

Assessment

Cultural Competence

Identity

(e.g., gender, race, class, culture, language proficiency)

Personal, Cultural, and Community Assets and Strengths

Personal and Societal Biases

Power and Status Hierarchies

In- and Out-of-SchoolMath Experiences

Critical/Socio-Political

Consciousness

Teaching Math for Social Justice

Winter Term Reflection

Where we’re going spring term…

• Social Justice Math Instruction
• Assessment
• Lead a Math Activity (TCs share a math learning resource with our class)
• Learn About A Topic of Interest (related to NCTM resources)
• Personal teaching style
• Other ideas?!

Winter Term Reflection

Let’s share our Winter Term Reflection

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• What are your two big takeaways from the learning we did together in our course this term?

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• What are you still trying to make sense of? What questions and/or wonderings do you still have (based on the learning we did together in our course this term)?

Winter Term Reflection

Complete Course Assignments by Friday 3.21 at 11:59pm:

• Missing weekly homework assignments
• 1-1 Check in Meeting with Torrey (March 14-22)

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Please do the following:

• Complete End of Term Feedback survey (for Torrey)
• Complete the formal course evaluation emailed by the C&I Department

Thank you for a wonderful term:)