Strengthening Assessment and Instruction
Take some time to reflect on and discuss Thomas P. Carpenter's five principles for unpacking problems.
What instructional practices have you adopted that you believe supports one or more of these principles?
Record your thinking in Section 3.3 of your digital handout.
In addition, feel free to write down questions and wonderings that you have about any of these five principles. See what wisdom emerges from this group.
Take a moment to reacquaint yourself with this trajectory introduced in Operation Sense - Session #1.
Read this problem and anticipate some student responses.
Analyze the work of seven students as they considered this situation.
Use the trajectory above to anchor your analysis.
(TIP: If you're in groups, you might wish to assign a different person to each work sample and then share your analyses.)
Compare one or more of your analyses to those in the videos below.