Session 244: Notice and Wonder: Supporting Students to Engage and Teachers to Use Student Thinking
- Tuesday, April 16, 2013
- 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
- Steve Weimar
- The Notice and Wonder approach to problem solving has gained popularity for overcoming anxiety and for connecting to student thinking. This workshop will share professional development activities that help teachers take this strategy beyond engagement to develop reasoning and an explicit focus on the Mathematical Practices of the CCSS.
Agenda
- Introductions
- Background on Notice and Wonder
- Themes: What does it mean to get better at Notice and Wonder? How do we foster this excellence?
- Early Concepts of Getting Better: Compare student work
- Notice and Wonder with Symmetry Surprise Scenario 1
- Older students but complete novices
- Younger students but a little experience
- Younger students but a little experience w/ solutions
- Symmetry Surprise Scenario 2
- Connecting Notice and Wonder to CCSS Practices
- The Teacher Practice: Notice and Wonder with student work
Resources
- Notice and Wonder recording sheet
- Notice and Wonder questions
- Notice and Wonder types
- Problem Solving Strategy detailed noticings
- Additional Resources
- Understanding the Problem: Notice/Wonder [PDF]
- Problem Solving-It Has to Begin with Noticing and Wondering [PDF]
- Jacobs, et al 2010 Professional Noticing of Children’s Mathematical Thinking
Send questions/comments to: Steve Weimar
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