Now I use a model that allows me to draw on those aspects of mastery that have transformed
the maths learning in my classroom, while enabling all children to achieve.
Developing pedagogical approaches that tie science and
math learning in the classroom to the local community and the needs of diverse populations of learners
What are your favorite ways to motivate
math learning in your classroom?
Not exact matches
Technologies like DreamBox, a
math education software that's used
in a number of
classrooms across the US, adapts to each student's skill level and lets students
learn at a pace best suited to their needs.
When your social life consists of
learning math in a church
classroom once a week and helping your mom pick up wholesale groceries at Sam's Club, you cling to church social outings like velcro.
Each object
in the Montessori
classroom has a specific place and purpose (a twig may be part of a flower arranging
learning center, or a seashell may be part of a
math manipulatives box).
The new program, called
Math Forward, draws upon the work of Deborah Ball, dean of the School of Education at the University of Michigan, who believes that effective
math teachers have an understanding of their subject that goes beyond what they have
learned in course work and what they are required to teach
in the
classroom.
The public release of these ratings — which attempt to isolate a teacher's contribution to his or her students» growth
in math and English achievement, as measured by state tests — is one important piece of a much bigger attempt to focus school policy on what really matters:
classroom learning.
AD: Screencasting is a really great way of getting into Flipped
Learning because, you know, I mean it's very difficult to explain some things
in an audio podcast - I still think audio podcasting is the best method of flipping a
classroom for things that lend themselves to an audio - only format - you know history, maybe biology, psychology, lend themselves there, but it's very hard to explain
maths in an audio podcast.
... But elements of the flipped
classroom, where you're just identifying things
in your teaching and
learning practices
in the
classroom... perhaps
maths is a great example even
in primary school, where a lot of students just require a particular
maths example to be explained over and over and over, using different examples.
With all of the evidence pointing toward the effectiveness of game - based
learning, one could reasonably ask why educational and board games are still used so sparingly
in American
math classrooms.
In the typical mathematics classroom, especially in the middle years of schooling, we tend to use one model to connect maths with the real world; we start by teaching the maths content and skills, we then get students to practice and do some maths, and then we next might apply some of those skills into a real world context by using learning activities such as word problem
In the typical mathematics
classroom, especially
in the middle years of schooling, we tend to use one model to connect maths with the real world; we start by teaching the maths content and skills, we then get students to practice and do some maths, and then we next might apply some of those skills into a real world context by using learning activities such as word problem
in the middle years of schooling, we tend to use one model to connect
maths with the real world; we start by teaching the
maths content and skills, we then get students to practice and do some
maths, and then we next might apply some of those skills into a real world context by using
learning activities such as word problems.
«PRIZM brings
math to life with vivid images and color displays which offer students a fun and innovative way to
learn in the modern - day
classroom.»
In the second of two articles on flipped learning in senior secondary classrooms, Victorian educator Paul Bernetzke shares how he's using the method for a Year 12 Specialist Maths course and what he's learned along the wa
In the second of two articles on flipped
learning in senior secondary classrooms, Victorian educator Paul Bernetzke shares how he's using the method for a Year 12 Specialist Maths course and what he's learned along the wa
in senior secondary
classrooms, Victorian educator Paul Bernetzke shares how he's using the method for a Year 12 Specialist
Maths course and what he's
learned along the way.
When we started this probably three years ago I started collecting data, students were still
learning in the traditional
maths setting, one teacher [and] 30 kids
in their own
classrooms, and so I started getting data mid-year, end of year, and so we've continued that so we're getting student achievement data.
The Ed School's Usable Knowledge,
in partnership with Digital Promise, a nonprofit authorized by Congress to spark innovation
in education, launched a new series called Ask a Researcher that offers guidance to
classroom dilemmas
in the areas of literacy,
math, and English language
learning.
But principal Michelle Tubbs, a veteran of the
classroom who holds a doctorate
in education technology, had conducted a pilot program with blended
learning at an Alliance school
in the city's Watts neighborhood, where the average freshman read and did
math at the 4th - grade level.
Similarly,
in a case study of four middle school
math teachers who participated
in a yearlong series of ten video club meetings to reflect on their
classrooms, teachers
in the video club «came to use video not as a resource for evaluating each other's practices, but rather as a resource for trying to better understand the process of teaching and
learning»
in a supportive, nonthreatening setting (Sherin and Han, 2004).
Place a set of these cards
in either the
math or
classroom library center to aid children's
learning and understanding of numbers, counting, and number names.
«I hope that through the
classroom environment we have created together and the inquiry - based teaching and
learning approach that I use, that each student really believes
in and strives to achieve his or her best
in our science and
maths classrooms,» she says.
When students feel connected
in the
classroom, the difficulty that is a necessary component to understanding
math will feel less like a personal threat and more like a natural part of
learning.
A master
math teacher
in Anchorage, Alaska, establishes a cooperative -
learning environment
in an upper - elementary
classroom..
Critical thinking, which has long been relegated to the back of the
classroom in favor of standardized - testing - friendly rote
learning, should be the priority
in teaching
math.
You hear this rhetoric about there being this and that type of learner, but no one really gives students the opportunity to
learn in different ways
in the
math classroom.»
Giving the student the ability to adapt his or her needs around a
maths, science, or language problem enables a more holistic, needs based paradigm of
learning — one that is starting to be used outside of
classrooms,
in areas such as health and social care,
in wellness and mental health.
«One of the things I
learnt very quickly
in the
maths classroom is that a lot of the kids
in high school didn't have that mathematical literacy, that numerical thinking that they needed,» she tells Teacher, adding that it was after reading a research paper about numeracy moments she was inspired to implement change across the school.
The book also showcases an approach to
learning from international evidence very different from simply sending researchers to Finland to observe Finnish
math teachers
in their
classrooms.
Students
in Whitfield County take on a range of multidisciplinary projects and
learn math and physics while building an outdoor
classroom.
«I'd taught
Maths Studies for a few years... [and] always knew there were some students I never really connected with
in the
classroom,» the Senior Leader, STEM
Learning, at Adelaide's Australian Science and Mathematics School, recalls.
Proprietary reading and
math systems that automatically adjust to the learner's performance are already
in wide use
in K — 12
classrooms, while fully adaptive
learning - management systems are gaining a foothold there and
in career and technical education.
Students use oracy techniques
in the
classroom, every day,
in every lesson — guided by their oracy framework — to discuss their ideas about Ancient Greece, problem solving, and explaining their
learning in maths.
Compared to students
in less student - centered
classrooms, students
in more student - centered
math classrooms reported being more highly engaged
in what they were
learning and showed higher growth on a test of problem - solving skills.
After spending six years
in the
classroom and decades researching how children
learn math, Professor Jon Star knows there are times when teachers just need to tell students what to do.
Extending the
math learning day help students not only meet
math standards and develop proficiency, but also enable them to engage
in the kind of deep
learning and comprehension they might not have time for during normal
classroom hours.
The book had nothing to do with how kids
learned math, but sitting for hours
in Japanese
classrooms she realized she was
learning all kinds of interesting things about
math that she'd never thought about before.
When it comes to alignment between NGSS and Common Core, Fordham found that «
in several cases, where NGSS expectations require
math in order to fully understand the science content, the
math goes well beyond what students would have
learned in classrooms aligned to the Common Core.»
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Let's revisit the middle school
math teachers who were
learning how to support student discourse
in their
classrooms.
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Advanced students — many of whom would do «just fine»
in less innovative
classrooms —
learn to work more efficiently
in their best subjects and find confidence and success
in areas outside their perceived strengths (e.g., a highly skilled
math student can
learn how to apply her visual - spatial strengths to expository writing, improving her performance
in English class).
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