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Agenda
Review POW – Desman
Thoughts on Reading - When are we ever going to use this?
Thoughts on observations – How do your teachers grade?
Discussion: Effective teachers are part time counselors
Homework
1. POW #6: CountingTrees
2. Reading Response:- turn in via our shared document
The three short blog posts/articles below sum up the challenges of teaching math: fixed mindsets, anxiety and boredom. What is a teacher to do? What is a teacher not to do? Write a response that both confirms you read the articles and gives a thorough commentary on how you might tackle the challenge. What strategies have you seen in your observations do you plan on stealing? Which will you eliminate? What strategies have we discussed in seminar would you incorporate into your classroom? Another way of thinking about this response is that to write a mission statement for your “business” of teaching math. This response should be about 500 words. I look forward to reading thoughtful action plans.
How to Deal with kids' math anxiety
How do you spark a love of math in kids?
3. No Observation Reflection Assigned - be sure to still upload a description of your hours this week to the Cal-Teach Portal. I suggest you briefly describe the class objective (SWBAT, standard), activity and teaching method for each different class (summarize your notes from the observation form).
Want More?
A Teacher's Lesson in Deep Listening
Read Claude Steele's Whistling Vivaldi
Read Attachment Based Teaching
Educational Leadership: How to Foster Deep Listening (classroom discussion, not counseling)
Maybe this Ted Talk on Active Listening?
Or maybe these youtube videos on Reflective Listening? This one or this one. If you find any good videos online, please let me know.
Barefoot Guide to Developing Deep Listening Skills
Addressing Achievement Gaps with Psychological Interventions
Codding of the American Mind (Interesting Article but the key thing to look at is the list of Cognitive Distortions at the bottom)
Model Lesson: ComparingPopulations, Human Box-whisker plot, JellyBlubber Activity on variability in samples
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