Volume 1, Issue 4 Secondary Math Coordinators Cobb County School District Upcoming Webinars 8am: Grade 6 – Unit 6 1/22/13, at 8:00 a.m. : https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp? sid=2012003&password=M.BDF49 C6837BC6ADD80274D0D33872B Grade 7 – Unit 5 1/23/13, at 8:00 a.m. https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp? sid=2012003&password=M.62D9A C2CFBDB20911177541FF12C1F Grade 8 – Unit 6 1/29/13 at 8:00 a.m. https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?s id=2012003&password=M.BA302D B9E7641805371057D0C28FE7 All session archives /webinar schedules may be found at: https://www.georgiastandards.org/ Common-Core/Pages/Math.aspx. Teacher Spotlight: Belle 2 Teacher Spotlight: Jones 2 Teacher Spotlight: Moore 2 Teacher Spotlight: Sorenson 3 Teacher Spotlight: Welskop 3 TI Webinars 3 Rigor & Relevance 4 Inside this issue: Do you have engaged or compliant students? Teaching that emphasizes active en- gagement helps students process and retain information. It leads to self- questioning, deeper thinking, and problem solving. Children who are engaged show sustained behavioral involvement in learning activities accompanied by a positive emotional tone. They select tasks at the border of their competencies, initiate action when given the opportunity, and ex- ert intense effort and concentration in the implementation of learning tasks; they show generally positive emotions during ongoing action, in- cluding enthusiasm, optimism, curi- osity, and interest. A procedurally engaged student is one who follows traditional rules of behavior. He or she is quiet, looking at the teacher, has the book turned to the correct page and may even help the teacher collect the homework. A substantially engaged student is one who not only attends to the built- in procedures of instruction but also interacts with the content of the les- son in a deep and thoughtful manner. Teacher behaviors that promote en- gagement: High expectations Personal relationships Link learning to prior knowledge/experiences Continual assessment/ feedback All student always have something to do Variety of interaction modes & room arrangements- novelty Structure tasks in rigorous, active & accountable ways Consider the 6 C’s: Choice Collaboration Connection Challenge/Competition Communication Commotion Engagement in the Classroom... November/ 2012-January 2013 Debbie Poss, 2012 Gladys M.Thomason Recipient Debbie Poss teaches engaging courses at Lassiter High School in Marietta. It is not uncommon to see stu- dents working in groups to solve a task with graphing calcula- tors and manipula- tives to simulate real world experi- ences. Stu- dents have to justify their work with multiple rep- resentations and written explanations. As a T³ in- structor, students bene- fit from con- stant inter- action with the TI calcu- lators in her classroom.
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Volume 1, Issue 4
Secondary Math Coordinators
Cobb County School Distri ct
Upcoming Webinars
8am:
Grade 6 – Unit 6 1/22/13, at 8:00
a.m. :
https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?
sid=2012003&password=M.BDF49
C6837BC6ADD80274D0D33872B Grade 7 – Unit 5 1/23/13, at 8:00 a.m. https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=2012003&password=M.62D9AC2CFBDB20911177541FF12C1F Grade 8 – Unit 6 1/29/13 at 8:00 a.m. https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=2012003&password=M.BA302DB9E7641805371057D0C28FE7
All session archives /webinar schedules may be found at: https://www.georgiastandards.org/Common-Core/Pages/Math.aspx.
Relevance includes competency in the 21st century skills. Students need to feel a connection with what they are learning and have meaning daily for learning the math.
Current events play a vital role in en-gaging students in the mathematics that play a role in our every day lives.
It is not good enough to say that you need to learn this for the test or next year’s math course...
“Rigor is the goal of helping students develop the capacity to understand content that is complex, ambiguous, provocative, and person-ally or emotionally challenging.”-2001, Silver, Strong,
Perinie
What is the 21st century criteria?
Critical Thinking
Analytic Reasoning
Problem Solving
Writing Skills
Oral Communication
Depth of understanding How?
Project based instruction-inquiry model
Connection to the world-emotional & personal
Strategies for students for challenging text & gathering rele-vant information
Giving students the skills/motivation to meet expectations