Building a Classroom Community

1. Building a Classroom Community Session 40 - Denny St. John

2. Some simple questions: • What is a community? • What is a classroom community? • What is a critical element? Main Question:What critical elements are needed to foster the development of classroom communities?

3. public and private formative assessment opportunities, • helps establish positive class norms, • recognition for contributions to class goals. We will examine a variety of strategies for promoting discourse combined with a few math activities to encounter the critical elements. We will examine how the TI-Nspire™ Navigator™ system provides or allows:

4. allparticipants by going to https:todaysmeet/t3-40 • only to me (by survey with Weebly)http://dennystjohn-t3-2014.weebly.com/ Click the Collect Ideas tab. As we begin a few math activities, consider sending your ideas anonymously to:

8. Five Steps (or less) to Zero • Solving equations • Divisibility Rules • Finding Functions Data • Your ideas Planned* math activities:

9. 5 Steps – Here is game you might not know. • Solving equations - Math teachers know these! • Divisibility Rules - Math teachers know these? • Functions and Data - Do we do this often? • Your ideas - I get to learn too! Activity Selection Reasons:

10. This is not a “how to use the calculator session” but “how students use the calculator”. Time for math with some technology:

11. You may use only one non-zero digit in each step. • You may reuse digits in subsequent steps. • You may use only these four operations: multiplication, division, subtraction and addition. • You must get positive integers after each step. Five Steps to Zero Rules:

12. What methods do you know? • What methods do you teach your students? • What methods do your students know? • What methods do your students teach each other? Solving Equations

13. What rules do you know? • What rules have you created? • What rules do your students know? • What rules have your students created? Divisibility Rules

14. What methods do you know? • What methods do you teach your students? • What methods do your students know? • What methods do your students teach each other? Finding Equations

15. What methods do you know? • What methods do you teach your students? • What methods do your students know? • What methods do your students teach each other? Functions and Data

16. What have you shared? • How have you shared with your students? • What do your students share? • How will your students share with each other? Your Ideas

17. http://education.ti.com https:todaysmeet/t3-40 http://dennystjohn-t3-2014.weebly.com http://remind101.com Sites used by me:

18. Great books:

19. More Good Questions: Great Ways to Differentiate Secondary Mathematics Instruction by Marian Small and Amy Lin ISBN 978-0-8077-5088-9 Questions can be open or contain choices to increase student engagement

20. Five Practices for Orchestrating Productive Mathematics Discussions by Margaret S. Smithand Mary Kay Stein ISBN 978-1-4522-0290-7 Questions can be used to enhance peer to peer teaching and discussion

21. Using Formative Assessment to Differentiate Mathematics Instruction, Grades 4–10: Seven Practices to Maximize Learning by Leslie Laud ISBN 978-1-4129-9524-5 Questions can direct students to tasks that can be tiered

22. Connecting Mathematical Ideas: Middle School Video Cases to Support Teaching and Learningby Jo Boaler& Cathlee Humphreys ISBN 9978-0325006703 Great book about questions and tasks. Also about math communities!

23. Thank you for coming.Enjoy your T3 2014 International Conference