Understanding the Role of Community in the Math Classroom

Units One, Two and Three: Understanding the Role of Community in the Math Classroom, Math Talk, Establishing a Safe Community for All Learners

Read/Review/Reflect

Choose from the following resources:

• View article from Jo Boalers’ youcubed website Setting Up Positive Norms in the Math Class http://www.youcubed.org/wp-content/uploads/Positive-Classroom-Norms2.pdf.
• Read Lucy West article: Turn and Talk: One Powerful Practice so Many Uses.
• View Math Talk Learning Community article and rubric Appendix M3-2 Use the rubric to complete a self-assessment, identifying personal strengths and area of greatest learning need.

As our classrooms and communities become increasingly diverse, it is important that we develop a deep understanding of the role of educators in engaging in culturally responsive pedagogical practices.

• LNS Capacity Building Series Monograph Culturally Responsive Pedagogy (2013)
• LNS What Works Research Into Practice Monograph: Integrating Aboriginal Teaching and Values into the Classroom 2008
• FNMI Ways of Knowing by Lisa Lunney Borden on LNS Webcast Leaders in Educational Thought: Ways of Change
• Exploring Math Through Indigenous Culture by Dr Ruth Beatty
• Leadership Symbaloo

Respond in Module 3 - Unit One, Two and Three

Indicate what resonated most with you and what you are wondering regarding establishing classroom norms, math talk and /or culturally responsive pedagogical practices. Find a resource in the Leadership Symbaloo that supports leadership moves to support a mathematics learning environment. Respond to the post of others.

Module Three - Synthesizing our Thinking and Learning:

Self Reflection-Revisit assignment one - The Vision of the Math Learner- and make any additions, deletions, or revisions based on your current thinking around effective learning and teaching of mathematics and leading mathematics in your context. This will be shared on line at the end of the course with other course participants.