Opening A Window Into Mathematically Powerful Classrooms—Making Student
Thinking Visible
October 5, 2018 • Hartford, CT • Instructional Leaders (Grades K-12)
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Workshop Overview
Goal
- Provide school leaders with tools and strategies for establishing a relationship with, and having a social-emotional connection to, their teachers in order to create a safe professional space for learning. By having a common understanding of what a mathematically powerful classroom looks like, both classroom teachers and their instructional leaders can join forces to create and support a coherent learning experience for each and every one of their students where those students become knowledgeable, flexible, and resourceful mathematical thinkers.
Outcomes
Participants will:
- The Teaching for Robust Understanding (TRU) framework—a framework for creating and describing access to, agency for, and ownership of relevant mathematics
- How a theory of action gives coherence to a learning system
- The central role of student agency in the learning process
- The interdependency of language learning and disciplinary learning
- The importance of observing mathematics classrooms with tools that make student thinking visible
Who Should Attend
- School Instructional leaders (e.g., principals, vice-principals, coaches, teacher leaders, teachers, etc.)
Speakers
- Harold Asturias, University of California, Berkeley
Schedule
9:45 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.
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Welcome, Goals, and Introductions
Team Building |
10:15 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. |
Vision, Beliefs, Theory of Action
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11:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
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Intro to TRU Math Framework |
11:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
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Break
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12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
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TRU (Math continued): Observing as a teacher, as a researcher, as a student
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1:00 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.
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Lunch
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1:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
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The Five by Eight card—a pithy, high leverage observation tool
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3:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
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Break
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3:15 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
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Lesson Plan vs. Lesson Design How to coach teachers to design lessons that attend to the TRU five dimensions.
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4:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. |
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Registration Information
Preregistration required.
Rates:
With Conference: $50
Workshop Only: $185