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Should we give the bootcamp to students in a booklet to complete?
No. It is not a work booklet for students to complete. It needs to be a review which is used in a guided setting. Helps a teacher see if more practice is required for previously taught concepts.
What is conceptual understanding in mathematics?
It is the comprehension of mathematical concepts, operations and relations.
How many foundational outcomes are found in my pacing guide?
There are 8 or fewer found in your grade level.
How can I tell which curricular outcomes are foundational in my pacing guide?
They are printed in bold.
What is procedural fluency?
This is defined as the skill in carrying out procedures flexibly, accurately, effieciently and appropriately.
What do formative assessments do for teachers?
Data will guide their next steps - reteach, review, or corrective instruction. Lets the students know what is the target, where I am in relation to the target and what are my next steps.
How many cognitive levels of questions can be seen in the table of specifications?
Three levels.
What is a baseline assessment?
This is the annual year end or term end assessment. It is intended to evaluate the breadth and depth of a student's understnding in relation to all curricular outcomes.
Math Progressions help me to
identify where I need to reach back to. Where did the student get a misconception in relation to the outcome.
What does a pacing guide typically do for a teacher?
It keeps us organized, teaching in sequence, and ensures that students are getting prepared for the following year. It recognizes starting points.
Foundational outcomes are those that allow other outcomes to make sense and to be learned more efficiently and effectively.
What is a bootcamp?
A bootcamp is an organized resource package of practice questions for previous grade level outcomes.
What does a pacing guide do for me?
It suggests a sequence and timeline to teach each curriculum time line.
What is direct instruction?
It is an intentionally well planned and student centered guided appropach to teaching.
How does a progression chart help me as a Math Teacher?
It shows how an outcome developes in complexity over the grades. It also shows you what your students will learn next.
What is a reach-back?
This is a process in which teachers intentionally and regularly go back and review previously taught outcomes (with a focus ont he foundational outcomes) to help the understanding move to the students' long term memory.
When do we prioritize teaching for foundational outcomes?
First part of the year.
What is a know and grow?
This is a reflective process created by the data tool where a teacher can engage and use the ranked results from questions on the baseline and formative quizzes to see what was most successful to least successful in their teaching.
Where can students see foundational outcomes listed?
They can see the foundational outcomes in poster format in your classroom.
What is dialogic instruction?
Dialogic instruction involves a joint effort between students and teachers to explore a concept and build new connections through discourse.
What is the purpose of a bootcamp?
The intent of the bootcamp is to review previously learned concepts in order to prepare students for current grade-level outcomes.
What is deconstruction or the + - Action Plan?
This is the process where teachers quide students through the breaking apart their work on a question, in order to analyze their strengths as well as their first point of error and determine their next actional steps for improvement.
What kind of self reflection can you get from a know and grow?
Did I run out of time, Did I focus on both conceptual and procedural fluency, did I teach to the cognitive level required? Did I pick an outcome they were least successful? Did I seek out new ways for instruction?
How can you find a student's instructional learning point or place?
Complete a formative assessment.
When is most useful to use a mini quiz?
After the second formative assessment.
How can I effectively build on students' mental math skills?
Use daily routines. ie. Number Talks
Represent things in concrete and pictoral examples.
Introduce specific strategies ie. compensation, part-part whole etc.
What are Mini Quizes?
These are targeted, diagnostic assessments based on one outcome, with a bank of constructed response questions to be used to target misconceptions in a guided setting.
Why could/should you sit with a child and have a conversation or a conference while they are completing a mini quize?
You can dive deeper into a misconception, you can assess student understanding and the next step, you can extend thinking on a concept and you can identify learning behaviors which are impacting student learning.
One way to get students to engage in meaningful practice and skill?
Games
What is a workshop model?
This is when many components are used for understanding:
warm up, mini lesson, guided practice, independent practice and consolidation.