Lindsey's Coaching Corner
Keeping Smith Teachers in The Know
Something to PONDER...
Way to Represent Misty
Mrs. Cates' Class is Comma Crazy
BRRRR! BRRRR! BRRRRR!
Why Model? Why Think Aloud?
Reflect on lessons this past week...How did you put your thinking on display for the learners in your class? Think about yourself as a learner...do we need to see it modeled? If so, our students K-5 do as well.
Why Number Talks?
A brief daily practice where students mentally solve computation problems and talk about their strategies has dramatically trasformed teaching and learning in math classrooms. Something wonderful happens when students learn they can make sense of mathematics in their own ways. As students sit on the edge of their seats, eager to share ideas, digging deep into why procedures work, they come to like math and know that they can understand it." Making Number Talks Matter
What does # Talks look like in your class? Are students highly engaged or playing with pencils as one student answers? Where are they sitting? Does it matter if they are in their desks or on the floor?
Math
- CURRICULUM UPDATES: Lessons will not be posted for grades 3-5 until the last week in September for Cluster 2. K-2 has curriculum writing on September 28; lessons for Cluster 2 will be posted on October 5. Teams can backwards plan for Cluster 2 and use the Cluster Planner, CBA, and Scaffolding Documents to work on the following: unpack the TEKS and identify SB and TB, create CFAs, plan LS problem solving and work stations.
- Why Exemplars? Exemplars is our best resource to intentionally teach the process standards. We all know that from our time spent on August 18th learning about process standards and STAAR, that STAAR questions have at least 3 processes per questions. Therefore, we are doing our students a great service by utilizing this resource. This is a stretch in all of our learning...please know that the district has a purpose, and we are lucky they are doing so much research to prepare us and our students for the states' expectations.
What I'm Studying
Lindsey Corder
Email: corderl@friscoisd.org
Location: 9800 Sean Drive, Frisco, TX, United States
Phone: 4696332217
Twitter: @Lindseycorder1