What goals do you have in mind for your mathematical teaching for the remaining half of the school year? What can you do to help not only your children grow, but also yourself? Here are some things you might consider trying in 2019, as well as some resources to help you get started. Pick one or two to get started.
1. Making Number Talks and other Mathematical Routines part of your instruction
2. Trying one of Jo Boaler's Week of Inspirational Math
3. Using 3 Act Tasks to build student engagement and understanding
4. Using Visibly Random Grouping when putting students to work on tasks
5. Allowing more collaboration and talking among students. Learning should be social.
6. Using more Concrete and Representational models during instruction, and encouraging students to use and understand them as well
7. Eliminating pages of rote practice problems and instead finding rich problems that make students collaborate and problem-solve together
8. Participating in a Twitter chat. #mathconceptions is on Mondays at 8:30 for a 1/2 hour, and #elemmathchat is on Thursdays at 8 for an hour. Great professional developmennt
9. Working on building a better understanding of DOK for you and your students
10. Using explorations as a way for students to make sense of the math in their own way before being "instructed" in the way things "should be done."
Good luck! Let me know if I can help!
