Day 14 Connecting back to practice

The next step… … will be yours to choose We want to put you in the situations you encounter all the time in your classroom. But we can, and will, hit the pause button…

Our Process We’re going to watch two classroom videos We’re going to pause after a particular vignette and ask you to: – Spend a few of minutes individually thinking about what you would say to the student speaking and/or another student to push their thinking probe for understanding – Go around your table collecting input Don’t being your discussion until everyone contributes – Discuss your thoughts about commonalities & differences Don’t worry… we’ll repeat this slide after each vignette

Vignettes One & Two Comes from Jo Boaler’s book Connecting mathematical ideas which has two CDs of classroom videos in the back Our video is entitled “Convincing Others” and will show two students with two different approaches to explaining why 2(n-1) = 2n-2

Vignette One Please stand by while the video is prepared

Vignette One Spend a few of minutes individually thinking about what you would say to the student speaking and/or another student to – push their thinking – probe for understanding Go around your table collecting input – No discussion until everyone contributes! Discuss your thoughts about commonalities & differences

Vignette Two Please stand by while the video is prepared

Vignette Two Spend a few of minutes individually thinking about what you would say to the student speaking and/or another student to – push their thinking – probe for understanding Go around your table collecting input – No discussion until everyone contributes! Discuss your thoughts about commonalities & differences

Vignette Three & Four The next video is from Seattle; they are working on a probability problem likely familiar to you (pennies, nickels & dimes in a pocket) Using the same process as before, let’s take a look at this video.

Vignette Three Please stand by while the video is prepared

Vignette Three Spend a few of minutes individually thinking about what you would say to the student speaking and/or another student to – push their thinking – probe for understanding Go around your table collecting input – No discussion until everyone contributes! Discuss your thoughts about commonalities & differences

Vignette Four Please stand by while the video is prepared

Vignette Four Spend a few of minutes individually thinking about what you would say to the student speaking and/or another student to – push their thinking – probe for understanding Go around your table collecting input – No discussion until everyone contributes! Discuss your thoughts about commonalities & differences

Tomorrow It’s hard to change Write it down State it publically Find a way to be held accountable Know how to achieve it Be realistic We’re going to discuss ideas to help bring all this home with you … and have you share your ideas

One Last Video We have one more very short vignette to queue up to introduce your “homework”

Between Today & Your Departure Determine one or two achievable goals for next school year Visit Silver King 1 – walk up to the tripod with the camera Follow the instructions to tape (2 minute maximum) your shout-out This will be clipped & edited & put on your Ning space – your choice whether to make it public If you want to start again… just say “I’m starting again” and we’ll take your last & best copy

We all has 2 leef eventually