Accessible Math
March 2019
Steve Wyborney (now in Google Slides!)
If you love Steve Wyborney as much as I do, this information will be a thrill. He has created 20 NEW days worth of routines to share with your students. When using the routines, remember to explicitly ask questions that deepen student thinking and help them to develop their ability to share their ideas. With testing season upon us, there are valuable instructional moments that we can capture with Steve's routines because so many students are missing or otherwise occupied with state and district assessments.
When you first use the routines, it's all about student engagement and increasing discourse. Over time, we need to work towards higher level thinking and deeper connections to our grade level content standards. Meta-cognitive questioning is key if we want this routines to impact student learning. By asking strategic follow-up questions and utilizing routines that support students in sense making, we are helping them to consolidate their mathematical knowledge.
CONTEST ALERT!!!
Steve is giving away a signed copy of his book The Writing on the Classroom Wall to the person who has the closest answer to this question: How many file downloads will there be in the first month of this blog post? If you would like to submit an answer click here! This contest will stay open until March 17, 2019!
OC Effective Practices
Metacognitive Questions
Try asking a metacognitive question using a test prep item or a warm-up problem that you were already planning to give.
Ask students: What math concept and/or what operation(s) they believe are embedded in that question?
This type of question requires students to analyze the assessment item, determine the skills needed, and helps them to see how test items are alike and different rather than just knowing if they solved it correctly. Please let me know if you try this in the classroom, it's a new project I am actively researching.
QFT
Remaining dates for 18/19 & potential dates for 19-20
Registration is now OPEN for all 2018-19 courses. Dates for 2019/20 are still tentative.
We can also schedule a 60-90 minute personalized session with a group of teachers from your building or district on a variety of topics: Word Problems & Fluency Interventions, Math Language Routines- elementary or secondary, Teaching Math through Writing, Teachers & NWEA, and Math Recovery implementation.
- SDI Math for Emergent Learners March 26, 2019 OR October 16, 2019 OR March 12, 2020
- SDI Math for Conventional Learners August 13th OR January 16, 2020
- Supporting Diverse Learners in Secondary Mathematics June 26 & 27
- Building Thinking Classrooms - Co-teaching Mathematics August 16 OR December 18th
- Math Trajectories for Alternate Assessment- 2 DAY course- October 2 & November 14, 2019 OR January 9 & February 19, 2020
Save me a date?
Contact me: Shawna Veit special education math consultant
Email: shawna.veit@oakland.k12.mi.us
Website: https://oakland.k12.mi.us/Pages/default.aspx
Location: Oakland Schools, Pontiac Lake Road, Waterford Township, MI, United States
Phone: 248-209-2051
Twitter: @sveit