Discovery Education Common Core Academy:Making Common Sense Out of the Math Common Core

January 23-24, 2013Karen M. Beerer, Ed.D.Karen_beerer@discovery.com

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Resources to Support Your Work

Beginning With The End In Mind: The Assessments

Beginning With The End In Mind: The Assessments

An Assessment Review

Why Smarter Balanced?What does it look like electronically?What does the media component look like?

Ultimately, it doesn’t matter…

Your Task:1. Select a Math area of interest.2. Complete the assessment tasks (or as many as you can complete in the allocated

time.)3. As you are completing the tasks, keep an “evidence/interpretation” chart of your

findings.- Evidence: What will students need to know and be able to do?- Interpretation: What does this mean for our instruction? curriculum?

assessment?

Findings?

Get together with you’re a partner.

Discuss your evidence/interpretation findings.

Report out.

Examining Student Work

Apple Farm Field Trip Task

1. Examine the student work samples to determine the strategies students used to solve the problems.

2. Collect data using the grid provided.3. Group discussion questions:-Which strategies were most accurate?-Which strategies did students use most?-What were students doing well?-What tools did students use?

Putting it all together…- The Standards of Mathematical Practice- The Rigor of the Assessments- Analyzing Student Work

The Model…Purposeful Pedagogy and Discourse Model

What is the Purposeful Pedagogical Discourse Model?

Based on four different research studies:

• Jacobs, Lamb, and Philipp on professional noticing and professional

responding;

• Smith, Stein, Hughes, and Engle on orchestrating productive mathematical

discussions;

• Ball, Hill, and Thames on types of teacher mathematical knowledge;

• Levi and Behrend (Teacher Development Group) on Purposeful Pedagogy

Model for Cognitively Guided Instruction.

What is the Purposeful Pedagogical Discourse Model?

This model is intended to support teachers to deliver strong

mathematical content using critical best classroom practices as

well as to develop a learning environment where their students

regularly use the 8 Standards for Mathematical Practice.

What is the Purposeful Pedagogical Discourse Model?

Three Components:

1. Assess Students

2. Set Learning Goals

3. Design Instruction:- Anticipate likely student responses to cognitively demanding mathematical tasks.- Monitor students’ responses to the tasks during the

exploration phase.- Select particular students to present their mathematical responses during the discuss and summarize phase.- Purposefully sequence the student responses that will

be displayed.- Help the class make mathematical connections between different students’ responses and between students’ responses and the key ideas.

What does this model look like?First: Read for background knowledge.

Next: Watch the steps of the process.

Last: Debrief each step.

Connecting this Instructional Model to the Standards of Mathematical Practice

Go to the wiki: Open the Matching Document

Key Question: How would you match the Standards of Mathematical Practice with the Pedagogical Discourse Model component?-

Getting Started With Unit and Lesson Design

Getting Started With Unit and Lesson Design

Examining Model CCSS Units

One More…What Can You Do Tomorrow?

The Importance of Digital Media and Technology

“5 Things Every Teacher Should Be Doing to Meet the Common Core State Standards” (Davis)

• Lead High-Level, Text-Based Discussions• Focus on Process, Not Just Content• Create Assignment for Real Audiences and Real

Purposes• Teach Argument, Not Persuasion• Increase Text Complexity

One More…What Can You Do Tomorrow?

The Importance of Digital Media and Technology

“5 Things Every Teacher Should Be Doing to Meet the Math Common Core State Standards” (Spencer)

1. Combine content and practice. 2. Don’t rely solely on the textbook.3. Make connections across the standards. 4. Create a classroom environment where students feel free to invent strategies. 5. Engage students in rich mathematical discussions.

One More…What Can You Do Tomorrow?The Importance of Digital Media and Technology

Lead High-Level, Text-Based DiscussionsEngage Students in Rich Mathematical Discussions

Teach Argument, Not PersuasionMake Connections Across the Standards

Increase Text ComplexityDon’t Rely Solely on the Textbook

Essential Questions

Argue to determine the video’s best representation of life.

This is an easy one…Nonfiction textsPair with a text exemplars: A Bat is Born, Secret Garden…Math? The Flipped Classroom!

Which scene in the video is the best representation of math in everyday life?

Work Time

Discovery Education’s ELA and Math Academy Learning Targets

I CAN identify the content, format and structure of the ELA or Math CCSS. I CAN describe the essential classroom elements of instruction to ensure all students meet the CCSS. I CAN explain curriculum and assessment strategies to implement CCSS in my classroom, school or district. I CAN determine my next steps to implement CCSS successfully in my classroom, school, district and select useful resources to support me.