Whiteboard Workshop - Kelly O'Shea - CSAAPT Spring 2017

Facilitating Student-to-Student Discourse with Whiteboards

How do we empower our students to be the authority on what is or isn’t true—or what does or doesn’t make sense—without looking to us as the authority? This workshop will focus on facilitating a student-centered STEM classroom by getting students to have meaningful discussions with each other. We will practice several modes of “whiteboarding” (http://kellyoshea.wordpress.com/whiteboarding/) that focus on normalizing mistakes in the classroom, coming to a consensus as a group, thinking through other students’ work, and giving a variety of opportunities for quieter students to engage their peers during class. Participants will engage with science and math topics that should be accessible and challenging to all math and science teachers so that they can experience these activities from a student’s perspective.