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Keep Your Head Up and… Listening is Hard

Keep Your Head Up and… Listening is Hard. Max Ray The Math Forum @ Drexel University. Keep Your Head Up and… Listening is Hard. Max Ray The Math Forum @ Drexel University. “When you feel yourself getting lost, don’t look down, LOOK UP & LISTEN!”. - Ms. Thomas. Fast-Forward 15 Years….

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Keep Your Head Up and… Listening is Hard

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  1. Keep Your Head Upand… Listening is Hard Max Ray The Math Forum @ Drexel University

  2. Keep Your Head Upand… Listening is Hard Max Ray The Math Forum @ Drexel University

  3. “When you feel yourself getting lost, don’t look down, LOOK UP & LISTEN!” -Ms. Thomas

  4. Fast-Forward 15 Years… Me, facilitating

  5. Rough Workshop… • Tired faces • Crickets chirping • Off-task talking • Put-downs • Class clown behavior

  6. Help!

  7. A disaster, right? • “Activities were interactive.” • “Hands on work” • “Working with my peers to problem solve” • “The interactive role-play"

  8. Getting Lost

  9. How my plans look now:

  10. On the path to “student-centered”… We need to talk about what makes this hard.

  11. “Just listen to the students” “Just shut up” “Listen TO, don’t listen FOR” “Make thinking visible”

  12. What makes a “listening to” approach hardin math class? A *B * * * * *

  13. What makes a “listening to” approach hardin math class? A *B * * * * *

  14. What makes a “listening to” approach hard? • What is a useful & reasonable outcome for each path? • How will you all know the path(s) you’re on?

  15. I Know I’m Challenged: • Rushing through the summing up • Spending too much time listening • Talking too much

  16. When you don’t know the reasonable outcomes… The consensus is the students’ The consensus is super useful

  17. “When you feel yourself getting lost, don’t look down, LOOK UP & LISTEN!” Is it possible to resolve the tension the first time through?What are we gonna do about it?

  18. When you are still lost after listening… share that experience and find ways to get even more feedback:productivestruggle.wordpress.comLesson Study???

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