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Teacher Quality Workshops for Fall 2010 & Spring 2011

Teacher Quality Workshops for Fall 2010 & Spring 2011. Year-long Objectives . Improve our capacity to teach in a manner that fosters conceptual understanding and mathematical thinking Strengthen our mathematical knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge

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Teacher Quality Workshops for Fall 2010 & Spring 2011

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  1. Teacher Quality Workshops for Fall 2010 & Spring 2011

  2. Year-long Objectives • Improve our capacity to teach in a manner that fosters conceptual understanding and mathematical thinking • Strengthen our mathematical knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge • Improve student achievement (TAKS, STARR)

  3. To Achieve Those Objectives • Attend workshops with an active mind • Complete 2 “lesson study” projects each semester • Identify a topic and its related important key ideas • Discuss and formulate learning goals (e.g. address common misconceptions) • Plan a classroom lesson (search for good ideas/problems) • Teach/observe the lesson • Collect and analyze student work • Reflect and write-up

  4. To Achieve Those Objectives • Attend workshops with an active mind • Complete 2 “lesson study” projects each semester • Use http://thinkmaththink.wikispaces.com to share documents (lesson plan, student work, write-up) • Be prepared for each workshop • Connect workshop ideas to your classroom practices • Partner with a fellow teacher and try to observe each other’s implementation of the designed lessons

  5. Workshop Structure (in general) • 4:30 – 5:00pm Dinner • 5:00 – 5:15pm ThinkMathThink Comments Establish Objectives • 5:15– 6:25pm Activity 1 • 6:25 – 6:35pm Break • 6:30 – 7:45pm Activity 2 • 7:45 – 8:00pm Recapitulate Main PointsPreparations for the Next Workshop

  6. Workshop #1 (Aug 19) • 7:00 – 7:15pm Activity 1: Introduce “Lesson Study” Project • 7:15 – 7:45pm Activity 2: Group work on “Lesson Study” Project • 7:45 – 8:00pm Preparations for the Next Workshop

  7. “Lesson Study” Project

  8. Why “Lesson Study” Project? • Apply what you have learned from the last three series of workshops into your own classrooms • Quantitative reasoning (e.g., ratios & proportions) • Algebraic reasoning (e.g., change & graphs) • Measurement (e.g., formulas for pyramids & cylinders) • Issues on teaching & learning via analysis of video cases and student work (e.g., questioning techniques, common misconceptions)

  9. Why “Lesson Study” Project? • Apply what you have learned from the last three series of workshops into your own classrooms • Improve our teaching • Experience the process of designing, planning, and teaching lessons • Build a professional learning community

  10. What does a “Lesson Study” Project entail? • Step 1: Identify a topic and its related key ideas • Topics that you said you like to conduct classroom research • Measurement (6) • Proportions (5) • Probability: Dependent Events (5) • Formulas for Areas and Volumes (5) • Fractions & Percents (4) • Scale Factors (3) • Equation Solving (2)

  11. What does a “Lesson Study” Project entail? • Step 1: Identify a topic and its related key ideas • Step 2: Formula learning goals • Step 3: Design activities and plan a classroom lesson Try out your activities during a workshop session Present your lesson and get inputs from the other groups

  12. What does a “Lesson Study” Project entail? • Step 1: Identify a topic and its related key ideas • Step 2: Formula learning goals • Step 3: Design activities and plan a classroom lesson • Step 4: Implement/observe the lesson (Jayme/Kien)Collect student work • Step 5: Analyze student work • Step 6: Reflect and report the results (relate to goals)Refine the lesson for future useWrite up a brief report

  13. Tentative Schedule Groups A & B Groups C & D Project 1 Project 2Project 1 Project 2 • Aug 19 - - • Sep 16 S1, S2 S1, S2 • Sep 30 S3 S2, S3 • Oct 14 S5, S6 S3 • Nov 4 S1, S2 S5, S6 • Nov 18 S3 S1, S2 • Dec 2 S5, S6 S3 Teach & Observe Lesson #1 Teach & Observe Lesson #1 Teach & Observe Lesson #2 Teach & Observe Lesson #2

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