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Module 3: Focus on Student Opportunities to Struggle

Self-Paced Online Activities

(to be completed between March 20, 2020 and April 3, 2020)

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1907840. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

Global Pandemic Edition

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Launch Video

(Please play this video)

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Getting Started

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Goals for this Module

  1. Big Picture - Learn more about Student Opportunity to Struggle (SOS)
  2. Community - Continue building our teacher-researcher alliance - delayed
  3. Math - Engage with a lesson about integer operations
  4. Research - Create a mini-lesson targeting an SOS strategy/routine
  5. Teaching - Experience some ideas about online learning from the ROOT staff

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main goal: explore how to get students engaged in productive struggle

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How to Complete this Module

Work through these slides, submitting the following interactive activities:

  1. Getting Started - Module 3 - Google Form
  2. SOS Comments - Padlet
  3. SOS Video Case Study - EdPuzzle
  4. Interactive Activity - Desmos (use code 8X9B9C)
  5. Submit an SOS Lesson Idea - Google Form

Complete all 5 activities by April 3, 2020

Send questions or comments to root-rmc@boisestate.edu

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Look for Orange Buttons

(these are what you submit)

Run into issues? �Send an email to root-rmc@boisestate.edu

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Online Learning Strategies (used in these slides)

  • Asynchronous Presentation (Google Slides)
  • Screencasting (Screencast-o-matic)
  • Interactive online discussion (Padlet)
  • Inserting questions or prompts into video (EdPuzzle)
  • Audio voiceover (Smartphone)
  • Online Forms (Google Forms)
  • Custom Interactive Teaching Activity (Desmos)
  • Selected Additional Resources

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Getting Started - Google Form

(Please complete this before continuing.)

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Some pre-thinking about SOS

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SOS in Focus

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Read and Comment

  1. Revisit the EAC-SOS Guide to remind yourself of the 3 features, 4 strategies, and 8 routines listed under SOS.

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SOS Comments - Padlet

(Please complete this before continuing.)

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SOS Video Case Study

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SOS Video Source

A teacher in the project has graciously agreed to let us use video from her classroom for this module. The intent when the video was recorded was not to highlight SOS but we thought it provided some great examples of the features of SOS:

  • Focus on sense-making
  • Apply sustained mental effort
  • Engage with important math

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This is the task the teacher presented to her class.

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Think about the following question and write down a few ideas.

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How could you present this task to students in a way that maintains or increases Student Opportunity to Struggle (SOS)?

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SOS Video Activity

  1. Please have the EAC/SOS guide ready prior to viewing the video.
  2. There are three short video clips to watch. Please watch each video clip and respond to prompts embedded in the video.
    1. Enter your ROOT Teacher ID as your nickname

Video Clip 1

Video Clip 3

Video Clip 2

Video Clip 1 Transcript

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Supporting Student Struggle

When you see this icon, click it to play the accompanying audio!

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Pros and Cons of Struggle

Please take a minute to think about (no response needed) the following:

  1. What do you most value about student struggle?
  2. What do you see as the biggest challenge of student struggle?

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Why We Value Struggle

What Makes it Challenging

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Lets them organize their own thinking

They prefer to be told what to do

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They understand things more deeply

Hard to learn new things when there are gaps in understanding

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They develop a sense of independence and have more ownership over what they know

They know there are well established ways to think of math

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They develop confidence in their ability

They have fear and anxiety about doing poorly relative to their peers

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They develop persistence

They shut down when they don’t expect to be successful

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What about the “can’t dos & won’t dos”?

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Getting Participation

We want students who are

  • Purposeful and motivated
  • Resourceful and knowledgeable
  • Strategic and goal-directed

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To get there, we need students to be

  • Free of fear
  • Confident
  • Interested
  • Helped (in effective ways)

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Planning to Support Student Struggle

Tasks

Tools

Scaffolds

Allow many ways to reason about the math

Have something mathematical within reach for all students

Help organize or communicate thinking

Work like bumpers or guardrails

Asking questions and giving options to support “just right” struggle

Can be removed gradually

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Start an Interactive Activity

  1. Go to student.desmos.com and enter code 8X9B9C
  2. Sign-in (optional) or “Continue without signing in” and enter your ROOT Teacher ID
  3. Answer the first three prompts about supporting student struggle, then proceed to the next slides

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Interactive Activity - Desmos

(enter code 8X9B9C)

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Introduction to the ROOT Toolbox

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EAC-SOS Teaching Toolbox

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Read/scan our draft EAC-SOS Teaching Toolbox

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ROOT Toolbox

Return to the Desmos activity and progress through the rest of the activity

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cool

easy

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Me Again!

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Teaching Implementation

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Create an SOS Lesson Idea

  • Pick a Topic / learning goal
  • Pick an SOS routine to implement in your lesson idea
    • e.g. SOS.2.A
  • Pick a Tool from the EAC-SOS Toolbox to implement in your lesson idea
  • Create ONE of the following:
  • A lesson plan (max 2 pages)
  • Slides and/or a handout for classroom teaching
  • 2-5 minute video launching the lesson.

Submit your Lesson

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Looking Forward

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This Year’s Activities

  • Hiring
  • Recruitment
  • Red Tape
  • Baseline Data Collection $450 stipend
    • Teaching Context Survey
    • Video / Lesson Submissions
    • ISAT scores
  • Module #1 : Introduction to ROOT (Feb 1) $100 stipend
  • Module #2 : EAC in Focus (Feb 22) $100 stipend
  • Module #3 : SOS in Focus (online by Apr 3) $100 stipend
  • Summer Institute (June 22-25) $750 stipend

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Upcoming Activities

  • Summer Institute (June 22-25): Modeling and Problem Solving, �Tasks, Tools, Dividing up the Routines, Planning for next school year
  • 3 Regional Math Specialists will provide support throughout Aug 2020 - June 2021
  • Fall: Individual Crossover Trials
    • Gather a wide range of classroom evidence around the 16 strategies
  • Winter/Spring: Group Crossover Trials
    • Gather more systematic evidence of effectiveness for the 16 strategies
  • Use assessment data to choose a small number of “particularly promising” routines for the “whole group” Year 3 crossover trial (EAC-SOS vs. SOS-EAC)

Year 2 Goal: Decide which routines work best for us and our students.

May be affected by COVID-19 �(updates by early April)

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THANK YOU!

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