Creating a learning environment that is exciting and engaging for students takes more than a good curriculum. How can teachers establish a classroom environment that helps students successfully learn mathematics while enjoying the process?
Hit the ground running this school year with effective ideas for establishing a classroom culture that inspires deep learning and gets students excited.
In this session, you’ll learn:
In the post-COVID classroom, how do we get students excited to learn math again? As educators we are working to get our students re-engaged in learning while trying to meet the varying needs of every student. Now more than ever, the students in our classrooms demonstrate an extremely vast range of understanding, engagement, and abilities. How then can educators focus on the grade-level learning standards while also ensuring our students are inspired, curious, and challenged?
To inspire deep learning, curiosity and a love for mathematics, educators have to find ways to get students talking about mathematics. In short - we need students to make some noise!
This session will explore Five Practices teachers can use to facilitate rich discussions in the classroom. Anticipating, Monitoring, Selecting, Sequencing and Connecting.
Join Jessica Keegan, Elementary Director of Teaching and Learning at Oceanside School District (NY), for an in-depth look at how her students are making incredible strides in math through the use of rich performance tasks. Rather than having students double down on facts and figures, teachers at Oceanside are using performance-based instruction and assessment to develop confident and empowered mindsets. Along the way, their students are building math tool kits that contain problem-solving strategies, critical thinking, and communication skills.
In this level two virtual Institute session, participants will learn to use the five criteria and the four performance levels of the Exemplars rubric to analyze and assess student work.
In this level two virtual Institute session, participants will learn to use the five criteria and the four performance levels of the Exemplars rubric to analyze and assess student work. Examples of authentic student work will serve as the foundation for rich discussions concerning expectations for student performance and guide educators in determining next steps for student instruction. Participants will learn various techniques to facilitate students as they self-assess their own performance.
Do you spend the majority of your class time working on calculations and algorithms? Are your students applying their mathematical understanding to solve authentic problems or developing conceptual understanding by using hands-on/digital manipulatives and mathematical representations? Do you strive to create an environment where math talks serve as the foundation for student learning?
Do you spend the majority of your class time working on calculations and algorithms? Are your students applying their mathematical understanding to solve authentic problems or developing conceptual understanding by using hands-on/digital manipulatives and mathematical representations? Do you strive to create an environment where math talks serve as the foundation for student learning?
Your students deserve rich learning opportunities in math. How can you keep them engaged and incorporate best practices in a remote or blended environment? Join Exemplars expert, Robin Moore, to get practical tips on using an Exemplars performance task as the center point for engaging students in conceptual understanding, application, and procedural fluency.
