TE 801 Week 10

CHECK IN AFTER GLT

Check-in
What has been your greatest triumph or success or satisfaction so far this semester?

Check-in
What is something that you still want to accomplish in your practice this semester?

TEAM STATEMENTS

What is the most difficult thing about teaching a math unit?

What was the most difficult math content (in your unit) to teach? Why?
In grade-based groups

TIMED PAIR SHARE

Timed Pair Share

This semester, what is one thing that you have learned about teaching that you did not know before?

Timed Pair Share

This semester, what is one thing that you have learned about yourself that you did not know before?

FINISHING THE UNIT

Part 7 The Reflection

What did your students learn? What did they not learn? How do you know? How did you use formative assessment throughout the unit and what did it tell you (specifically)? How did it help you adjust your instruction throughout the unit? What would you change if you were to teach this unit again? Why? (again, the important thing here is to reference math and evidence)

The final product of the unit

This is important for your professional development (e.g., final professional portfolio) Realize that reflecting on student work here is essential for your final unitthis is the only way to evaluate what students learned during the unit and to demonstrate what you were thinking about as you taught the lesson

Remember
It is bad teaching to say, I plan to do this, and I plan to do that. Or to reflect and say, I did this and I did that. The KEY to good teaching is to incorporate what students are thinking!!! (hence the analysis of student work and formative assessment is important)

You will want to show that

1) You can analyze student work 2) You can use the information that you gather from this to modify your instruction in meaningful ways This is the name of the game. This is what you want to make sure that you demonstrate in your final unit (for your professional portfolio)

Lets not lose sight of the math!

What I just said applies to all of your teaching (every content area) But, of course, a principal will want to see that you can do this precisely and thoughtfully within each content area. The more you can demonstrate that you know about the content, the more impressive it is. Be as precise, specific, and thoughtful about the math as possible.

Activity

FINALIZING OUR UNITS

In your grade-level groups

Look at your completed unit plans Share What were three of the most valuable formative assessments that you had during your unit? What did you learn from it? How did you use it to modify your instruction (e.g., other assessments or your daily lesson plans)?

Reflecting on Lesson Plans

Looking over your daily lessons from the GLT, What would you have changed? Why? Be specific (the more specific you can be about the math, the better!)

Classroom Discussions
What was the most productive classroom discussion you had during your GLT? What did you learn about student thinking from it? What was the most difficult or least productive or most frustrating classroom discussion you had during your GLT? What is most difficult about facilitating student-to-student interactions?

Project Description on the Wiki

INTRODUCING PROJECT 3 CLASSROOM DISCUSSION

What is the difference between I-R-E and Discussion?

Initiation-Response-Evaluation
T: What is 4 x 12? S: 48 T: Good job.

What we want
What are the differences between these two graphs? One is bigger than the other. What do other people think?

For Project 3
Remember, the Talk Moves are important for this, and can help you prepare for how you might lead a discussion (and weave student responses together (hence, more student-tostudent talk rather than all teacher-student)).

For Project 3
But also remember that the goal of this project and the goal for this course is NOT for you to achieve perfection; Rather, the goal is to help you develop professionally; to start to think about how you might begin to learn in and from your practice.

Project 3
So, the goal of this project is not Lead a perfect classroom discussion. Rather, the goal is Lead a discussion and analyze it; i.e., Learn how to analyze your practice That is, without question, the most important thing that you can learn this semester or this year.

That is,
Learn how to analyze your practice Recognize that teaching is a practice that you can work on and improve no one is a born teacherpractice is something continually to look at, evaluate, and it can be improved! (I love this point; it is so miraculous)

Planning / Analyzing your Discussion

How is this discussion tied into your goals / big ideas for that lesson? How did the classroom discussion you had (or might have) help you (or not help you) achieve these goals for this lesson? Can you share in grade-level groups, and we will hear some good examples.

Remember that this applies to all math lessons! In each lesson, you will have opportunities to advance student thinking through discussion.

Remember that these principles and techniques applies to all subject areas!

Preparing or Analyzing
Make note of the talk moves! Write notes to yourself in your lesson and anticipate opportunities where you might use these moves to advance your big ideas for the lesson. See talk moves handout

Looking at the Google Calendar

Please remember to continue to post noticing blogs and analysis of student work blogsremember that all of this should help supplement not only your unit, but your professional portfolio (you are gathering a record of your formative experiences) (but no student work blog for next week during Thanksgiving)

Looking at the Google Calendar

Final unit plan due anytime on Sunday, 11/25. Project 3 due on last day of class, 12/6.