BTSS Year 1

Course Syllabus
3 PD Credit Online & Contact Course (Blended)

Instructor:
Miki Kubo, HIDOE BKM Complex Area Resource Teacher
Miki_kubo@bkmcomplexarea.k12.hi.us
Course #: PD
, Section #:
Please Sign up at: http://pde3.k12.hi.us by September 12, 2016 and have your Principal sign from
Form 200-005(a) for classification purposes.
This course is designed to provide professional development for beginning teachers who are
participating in the Baldwin Kekaulike Maui Complex Induction and Mentoring Program and are
working with a trained Instructional Mentor. This course will focus on building the knowledge, skills
and understandings critical for beginning teacher effectiveness. Topics will include: Educator
Effectiveness System, Classroom Management, Common Core State Standards, InTASC
Professional Teaching Standards, Curriculum/Instruction and Assessment, New Teacher Formative
Assessment Tools. Majority of meetings will be online with the exception of a few face to face
sessions. Evidence of professional growth and reflections will be developed in an ePortfolio and
collaborative conversations will be done online.
Course Objectives:
Participants will:
Improve teacher effectiveness
Promote the personal and professional well being of beginning teachers
Familiarize selves with Educational Directives, Pedagogy, Content, and Skills
Engage teachers in self-reflection
Activities to Achieve Objectives:
In order to meet the above objectives, participants will:
Attend all course sessions
Participate in cooperative learning activities that provide opportunities for course participants to
interact with other course participants and/or course facilitators, to exchange ideas and share
experiences.
Apply information gained to enhance and improve instructional practices that will meet the
needs, as well as, challenge their students.
Develop and refine a professional growth plan with goals that enhance teacher quality and
student learning per Hawai'i Teacher Induction Program Standard 4, Hawai'i Teacher
Performance Standards and/or the Hawai'i Adapted Framework for Teaching.
Development of a portfolio that contains key course information, strategies designed and
implemented and participant reflections.
Learning Results Portfolio (PD Credit Requirement)
The format of the Learning Results Portfolio maybe completed online with uploads of additional
documents and other items that provide evidence of professional learning and student impact. A
template will be provided.

Contents will include:

Reflections and journal entries of the participant's response to content* covered during the
class sessions and the impact on their practice. *Content covered will include classroom
management, student engagement, setting professional goals, analysis of student work,
assessments & interventions, and other assessed needs of participants.
Activity worksheets that correspond to content covered during each class session, including
professional readings with reflections.
Documentations and reflection on the implementation of designated course activities (i.e.
Standards based lesson plans with observation notes using observation tool -by Mentor, and
student work samples with analysis).
Evidence from a minimum of 5 students regarding the implementation of learned content (i.e.
student reflections, student journals, student surveys or other student products).
Culminating reflection by the participant at the end of the course describing what was learned
and how the content impacted their instructional practices.

How this Online Course Works

This course is run with three main components:
Online Sessions (via Webex)
Live Sessions (Face-To-Face class)
Google Classroom
Weebly Course site http://btssyr12016.weebly.com
Online Sessions: All online sessions will be run through WebEx. The invitations (via email) to log
on will be shared with participants a few days prior to meeting.
Google Classroom: This community is a closed by invitation only community. Please check your
Lotus Notes email for an invitation. This website will house all the essential documents for our
course. Follow the steps below:

Learning Results Portfolio Template

Google Site Example
Course Schedule
The course runs from Sept. 12 to .
Online Sessions
Seven Tuesdays 3-5 pm
See below for full course schedule
NOTES on Course Schedule of Assignments and Session Topics

*Webex meeting days will be synchronous. Attendance to these online meeting times is a
required part of the course. Sessions will be held from 3-5pm. These sessions will introduce
teachers to new topics and start conversations around the guiding questions.
*All assignments are due prior to the subsequent online session meeting date. The first
assignment is due Nov 17, 2015 and the last assignment is due Feb 16, 2016.
* There is an ongoing requirement of asynchronous collaboration, listed as online posts in the
course schedule,. Post an answer to the weekly guiding questions and/or your reflection of the online
meeting to your blog and post the link in the Google+ community page for everyone in course to see
and comment on. You will also be asked to comment on 3 different colleagues posts during this time.
COURSE SCHEDULE on Following Page
Number Routines Course Schedule

Week

Topic

Task

1
10/6/15
(Face to
Face)

Introductions
Technology requirements
Questions about the course,
Class norms
What is a Number Routine?
o Counting Circles
o Number Talks
o Number of the Day
o Choral Counting

Share and reflect on some of the noticing and

wondering you had while watching various
number routines. Include answers to questions
similar to these:
What do you wonder about specific
number routines?
What do you hope to do when you start to
implement them in your classroom? What
do you like about the idea of having them
be a part of your instruction?
What teaching moves were present?
Where did you see connections to the
Mathematical Practices and/or content
standards?
What did you like about the routines?
What worries you about the routines?

2
(online
posts)

Getting started with Number

Routines

Read Making Number Talks Matter Ch 2-3 (Pg

11-31)
Engage in the Making Number Talks Matter
Book Study.

3
10/20/15
(Webex)

Reflect on reading
Thinking through Number
Routines
o Similarities
o Differences
Mathematical Goal for your
Number Routine.
Understanding students
needs.

Share and reflect on the principles we chatted

and read about in Ch 3's reading. Include
answers to questions similar to these:
What guiding principles fall under your
strength category? Which principles will
you have to put conscious effort into
implementing?
What routine are you anticipating will best
meet your mathematical goal?
What are some goals you have in mind

4
(online
posts)

5
11/3/15
(Webex)

Planning Guide:
Mathematical Goal
My Students

6
(online
posts)

Sharing Mathematical Goals

Anticipating Student
Responses
Recording Student Work
o Importance
o Notice/Wonderings of
students work and
what they say
o Strategies to recording

Planning Guide:
Number Routine
Recording

for your Number Routine? What

connection does this goal have to
previous and future learning for your
students?
Where are your students? What are their
strengths? What are their challenges?

Complete the Mathematical Goal and My

Students sections of the Number Routine
planning guide. You might want to start by
asking yourself these questions:
What Mathematical Goal do you have in
mind for your students?
Where is this goal leading to?
What connections will students make to
previous content or upcoming content?
What are your students strengths? How
will you use these strengths to build
engagement in your Number Routine?
What are your students challenges?
How will you use this knowledge to help
build towards your Mathematical Goal?
Be sure to read through 2 colleagues planning
guides and provide reflective feedback.
Share and reflect on some of the wonderings
you have around various Number Routines and
your current recording practices in the
classroom. Include answers to questions similar
to these:
How do you currently record student
work? Refer to book Pg 20 #7.
How does the way you record students
thinking support engagement in the
mathematical practices? How does it
support and foster discourse?
Reflect on your current recording
practices, what are your strengths? What
are some areas you would like to work
on.
Create a goal for yourself, in regards to
recording student work, and describe how
you plan to achieve this goal through your
number routines (ie. pictures, class, video
etc)
Complete the Number Routine and Recording
sections of the Number Routine planning guide.
You might want to start by asking yourself these
questions:
What number routine am I planning to

do?
Number Talk:
What is my planned number
string?
What strategies might
students use if given this
number string?
How will I record this
number talk?
What is important
that I capture in my
number talk?
o Counting Circle:
What am I counting
up/down by?
What number will I be
starting at?
What number will I stop at?
How many people down the
circle will I have them
calculate?
How will I record the
answers shared?
What strategies might I see
in this counting circle?
o Choral Counting:
What am I counting
up/down by?
What number will I be
starting at?
How will I record the
answers shared?
What strategies might I see
in this counting circle?
Be sure to read through 2 colleagues planning
guides and provide reflective feedback.
o

7
11/17/15
(Webex)

Shareout Number Routine

chosen and why?
Questioning
Discussion Strategies
Talk moves

Share and reflect on some of the wonderings

you have around various questioning/discussion
strategies. Include answers to questions similar
to these:
What questions will I ask? How would I
categorize the type of questions I ask?
How does this help meet my
Mathematical Goal?
o How will these questions help
students engage in the
mathematical practices?
o How will these questions help me
keep the focus on students

8
(online
posts)
9
12/1/15
(Webex)

thinking without adding in my

teacher voice?
What talk moves will I use? How does
this help meet my Mathematical Goal?
o Wait time
o Restating
o Revoicing
o Reasoning
o Adding On

Planning Guide:
Questions for Accountable
Talk

Complete the Questions for Accountable Talk

section of the Number Routine planning guide.
Be sure to read through 2 different colleagues
planning guides and provide reflective feedback.

Planning Guide:
All required sections complete
Share with group.
Reflective feedback based on
number routines chosen.

Post your completed Number Routine planning

guide on your blog. (this needs to be done
before the Webex session so that everyone is
able to participate in the scheduled activity
during the meeting time).

10
(Face to
face with
video
assistanc
e)

Facilitate Number Routine #1

in class

No reflection required. This weeks assignment

is to set up and video tape your number routine,
and then upload to Vimeo/youtube/google drive.

11
(online
posts)

Reflection of Number Routine

#1

Watch your video and reflect on on your first

Number Routine. Include answers to questions
similar to these:
How did it go?
Were you able to complete the number
routine the way you had planned it?
What did you like most about the way the
number routine went? What would you
like to change for next time?
Looking at the 5 sections of your Number
Routine planning guide:
o What worked well?
o What would you change? Why?
Be sure to read through 2 colleagues Number
Routines reflection and provide reflective
feedback.

12
12/22/15
(Webex)

Formative Assessment
o Exit Ticket
o Journal
o Anchor Chart
o How do I move

Share and reflect on some of the wonderings

you have around formative assessment with
regards to your number routine. Include
answers to questions similar to these:
What do I notice students doing? What

forward?
Impact on future
number routine
planning

did I hear my students saying? What do I

wonder about my students sayings and
doings? How did my students surprise
me?
How do I move forward using the
information I know about where my
students are at?
How does this information impact the
planning for my next number routine?
Do I need an exit ticket? If so, how will I
use this information for the next number
routine?
Do I need an anchor chart? Why or why
not?

13
(online
posts)

Planning Guide:
Follow Up

Complete the Follow Up section of your first

Number Routine planning guide. Also, start
planning for your second Number Routine. Use
what you learned in your Follow Up section and
last weeks reflection to guide your next Number
Routine.

14
(online
posts)

Planning Guide:
All required sections
complete.
Reflective feedback based on
number routines chosen.

Post your completed Number Routine planning

guide #2 on your blog. Feel free to set up a time
to meet with your group (on your own time) to
reflect and discuss your second Number
Routine. It is not required for you to meet
synchronously you may also do so by providing
reflective feedback on each others blog posts.
Due date for planning guide #2 post is 1/5/16,
due date for reflective feedback is 1/12/16.

15
(Face to
face with
video
assistanc
e)

Facilitate Number Routine #2

in class

No reflection required. The weeks assignment is

to set up and video tape of your number routine,
and upload to Vimeo.

16
(online
post)

Reflection of Number Routine

#2

Watch your video and reflect on on your second

Number Routine. Include answers to questions
similar to these:
How do it go?
Were you able to complete the number
routine the way you had planned it?
What did you like most about the way the
number routine went? What did you
change from the last time that made it
work better this time?
Looking at the 5 sections of your Number
Routine planning guide:

What worked well?

What would you change? Why?
Be sure to read through 2 colleagues Number
Routines reflection and provide reflective
feedback.
o
o

17
1/19/16
(Webex)

Next steps for implementing

Number Routines in
classroom.
Follow up to be provided.
Portfolio
completion/submission.

Share and reflect on what you learned

throughout this course. Include answers to
questions similar to these:
What are your next steps with Number
Routines?
What has changed in your instructional
practice?
How are you going to continue to
implement number routines throughout
the rest of this year?
What are some goals you plan to set for
yourself and how do you plan to meet
these goals?

Portfolio Completion:
1/29/16