Teaching For Robust Understanding—Taking A Social Justice Stance
October 4, 2018 • Hartford, CT • Grades 4-12
CANCELLED
This workshop has been cancelled and will not take place.
Workshop Overview
Goal
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Provide teachers with a handful of high leverage strategies for establishing a relationship with, and having a social-emotional connection to, their students in order to create a safe space for learning. By learning to teach with a social justice stance they will learn to create a coherent
learning experience for each and every one of their students to become a powerful mathematical thinker.
Outcomes
Participants will:
- Understand equity in the mathematics classroom and the need for a social justice stance for learning.
- Understand Teaching for Robust Understanding (TRU) as a design framework for creating access, agency, ownership to relevant mathematics
- Understand the central role of student agency in the learning process
- Learn a handful of strategies that give students access to mathematical reasoning through equitable and culturally relevant teaching strategies
- Understand the interdependency of language learning and disciplinary learning,
- The importance of scaffolding routines that foster students' independent participation
Who Should Attend
- All teachers of mathematics grades 4-12
Speakers
- Kyndall Brown, California Mathematics Project
- Harold Asturias, University of California, Berkeley
Schedule
7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m.
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Materials Pickup |
8:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
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Welcome and Introductions
Team Building Mathematics Activity: Papi's Birthday |
9:30 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. |
Break |
9:45 a.m. – 11:15 p.m.
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Debrief Papi's Birthday TRU Math Framework
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11:15 p.m. – 12:00 p.m.
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Lunch
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12:00 p.m. – 12:30 p.m.
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Belief Systems and Structures: What have you heard?
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12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
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Joint Position Statement on Social Justice and Mathematics
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1:30 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.
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Strategy #1
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2:15 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
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Break
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2:30 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
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Strategy #2
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3:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. |
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Additional Information
The material discussed in this session will be drawn from:
- Smith, M. S., Steele, M. D., & Raith, M. L. (2017). Taking Action:
Implementing Effective Mathematics Teaching Practices in Grades 6-8. Reston, VA : National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.