Read Chapters 6, 7 and 8.
Consider these questions to guide your reading:
Where and how do teachers deliver instruction?
Does where and how teachers deliver instruction encourage or inhibit thinking?
What kind of practice and homework do teachers assign students?
Does the type of practice and homework encourage or inhibit thinking?
In what ways do students act dependently in the classroom?
How does the way teachers promote dependence promote or inhibit thinking?
After reading, go through the google slides to help solidify your thinking.
Open the Thin Slicing Curricular task PDF.
Read the Huddle up.
Solve each sequenced problem (1-12).
Respond to three questions in the google doc.
How does the Huddle Up build on prior knowledge?
How do the sequenced problems vary as they progress from 1-12?
What's the same and what's different teaching through a huddle up and sequenced tasks compared to teaching through direct instruction?
Spend about 10 minutes working through the problem on paper.
Look and see (like a stray cat) how other's approached the problem.
Use what you saw to complete the task.
Click here to complete the Toolkit #2b Survey.
Develop responses for the different types of questions students ask.