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Teaching Math with Care: a growth mindset approach to starting the new school year (updated) - Your Fantastic Elastic Brain Written by JoAnn Deak Illustrated by Sarah Ackerley https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4f993b07483e541773dcb6/1602202838023-TL0AXRGRL2PTTJNEFEMD/HoM.png Blog - Teaching Math with Care: a growth mindset approach to starting the new school year (updated) - Habits of Mind habitsofmindinstitute.org https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4f993b07483e541773dcb6/1602343688177-1TUJSXVJY07KOCACD1R0/20201010_112238.jpg Blog - Teaching Math with Care: a growth mindset approach to starting the new school year (updated) As a class, students create posters with icons for each HOM based on commnalities from experiences they share in small group discussions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4f993b07483e541773dcb6/1602203024224-LAMEBUNKP97LID3AZRTD/What+do+you+do+with+a+problem.jpg Blog - Teaching Math with Care: a growth mindset approach to starting the new school year (updated) - What Do You Do with a Problem Written by Kobi Yamada Illustrated by Mae Besom https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4f993b07483e541773dcb6/1602344257798-DAPLS5UHUEJGK7H8FJ8U/Math%2Btoolbox.jpg Blog - Teaching Math with Care: a growth mindset approach to starting the new school year (updated) https://www.agmathsolutions.com/blog/keeping-students-engaged-in-remote-learning monthly 0.5 2021-01-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4f993b07483e541773dcb6/1606780637351-2BISMHQJQYVRKAJD08PG/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Keeping Students Engaged in Remote Learning https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4f993b07483e541773dcb6/1607228803773-UPWWE4O8SW1B338PYHW8/image.jpg Blog - Keeping Students Engaged in Remote Learning - Strategy #1: Community & Communication Students learn best when they feel supported and safe. In a time of mounting uncertainty, it’s important to continuously circle back to community building and social-emotional support in class. Students’ lives at home may be challenging, and providing them with a space where they can feel seen and cared for, even if it’s a virtual space, is crucial. -Take time at the beginning of class to do a community building game or share -Provide time for students to socialize right before class, or during the last 5-10 minutes -Provide students with individual check-in or advisory times outside of class -Regularly provide students with affirmations, and highlight achievements and growth -Create incentives to promote attendance and turning in assignments, particularly for students who struggle to keep up with either -Share your own concerns and areas of growth with students to model vulnerability and growth mindset https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4f993b07483e541773dcb6/1607228041039-89UJFFMKQRSI4HEKGM84/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Keeping Students Engaged in Remote Learning - Strategy #2:Multi-media for Multi-modalities of Learning Whether you are live-teaching over a video conferencing app, or providing asynchronous lessons through a slides presentation, diversifying how content is presented in your lessons can be helpful for reaching an array of learners. Text-heavy documents can be hard for young learners to focus on. Lecture-style instruction can be hard for students to keep up with, and they may miss important details. However, balancing text, images, videos, and audio can help make lessons more engaging and effective. -Provide voice-overs in presentations, or voice-to-text reading in word processor documents for all students -Meme’s and gifs! These visual aids can add some humor to lessons, and win you some cool points with students -Embed or link to a video: even the most well-put together lessons can benefit from reinforcement in the form of a video. YouTube, Zearn, Flocabulary, Numberock, and Khan Academy are just a few resources at your fingertips -Allow students to present what they know in videos with platforms like Flipgrid, which allow students (and teachers) to get creative while sharing what they’ve learned, and access can be restricted to their content -Nearpod and Peardeck are platforms that allow you to spruce up your presentations, and allow students to interact with the content directly https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4f993b07483e541773dcb6/1607228141937-QWAY40D0UX5ICPEZ3KUW/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Keeping Students Engaged in Remote Learning - Strategy #3: Time Management If your teaching experience is anything like mine, you find yourself with more on your to-do list and less time to complete it all. It’s important to remember that if we’re feeling the time crunch, it may not be long before students are feeling it too. If you’re live-teaching, it’s important to consider how you can best use face-to-face time with students: What parts of the work can be done asynchronously? What parts need to be completed together? -Set a timer for yourself to make sure mini-lessons don’t go on too long, and students have lots of time to work and collaborate -Make shares intentional: while we want to share the air and give all students time to share their thinking, doing so may cause some learners to tune out and miss important details. Knowing who to call on when can avoid this. -Post assignments and directions ahead of time: While all or even most students may not read the instructions, having them up ahead of time can be a time saver by reducing the amount of times you have to repeat them -Establish routines: When students know what to expect they are better able to manage their own time and gain independence. For tasks that you plan to do frequently, provide students with expectations and resources they can easily access to prepare and save time -Plan for challenges and have a back up: Internet outage, corrupt or lost file, dead battery, etc. Planning ahead for these and other circumstances can help you come up with a back up plan, and avoid the headache of a day lost https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4f993b07483e541773dcb6/1607228302901-BM0UPH4HH1PXRQKCTUQ6/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Keeping Students Engaged in Remote Learning - Strategy #4: Explicit Teaching Explicit vs. Direct We should clarify the difference between these two right away. Explicit teaching in my experience refers to instruction that lays out the objective of a lesson, and clearly demonstrates for students what they are expected to be able to do by the end of it. Explicit teaching can be achieved simply by posting a learning goal at the start of a lesson, modeling for students what they are expected to do, and having them self-assess if they’ve achieved that goal by the end. Direct teaching on the other hand, involves a more hands on approach by the teacher, guiding students step by step through a process that relies more heavily on achieving an explicit skill in one way. Teaching students how to use the Standard Algorithm for addition involving regrouping with borrowing and carrying over is an example of direct teaching. Both of these methods serve a purpose, and knowing when to use or not use each is key. The purpose of using explicit teaching to keep students engaged is to get to the point! Often, students tune out if they are unsure of what they are expected to know or do. They can become bored if they feel like they don’t have access to what is being taught. Providing students with a clear objective at the start gives them a foundation to check their own learning against. As students are working they have a clear destination in mind of what they are trying to reach, and that can help them to stay on track. Even for inquiry-based lessons, explicit goals and ideas can be communicated that don’t take away from the discovery aspect of learning - they merely provide the boundaries for the learning space. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4f993b07483e541773dcb6/1607228203810-YT5R70FNSRMWAJFQUXWU/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Keeping Students Engaged in Remote Learning - Strategy #5: Skills! Skills! Skills! Teaching math virtually requires two sets of skills: technological skills and math skills. These two things have to go together seamlessly to ensure students are able to learn new content. Just like in-person learning, how students are expected to work and show their thinking matters as much as what they learn. The challenge for educators is to make sure that students are adequately prepared to use different platforms and apps for working virtually, as much as they are on the math skills themselves. If students are unfamiliar with their tools, more of their focus may be spent on troubleshooting tech rather than math. When planning your lessons, keep these questions in mind: -How is instruction being delivered and can all students access the material? -What program features will increase ease and efficiency for students to do their work? -Are there any updates or specific items students will need to download before they can begin working? -Do students have enough practice with a specific program to explore new math ideas? -Is the program better used with direct teacher instruction, or can students use it independently? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4f993b07483e541773dcb6/1607228523482-HT6UC3GVICHG3CQIMZW4/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Keeping Students Engaged in Remote Learning - Strategy #6: Differentiation This one probably comes as no surprise, as many of the strategies above lend themselves to this one. Differentiating instruction and assignments is crucial for meeting students where they are. A benefit of teaching virtually is that there are more options for how to differentiate for students. Here are some ways math instruction can be differentiated in remote learning: Scaffolding: -Adjusted, tiered content -Content provided in different formats (color coded, lists, images to support text, different languages, etc.) -Different options for demonstrating work (ex. uploading a photo, using an app) -Small groups or stations in breakout rooms if other teachers, coaches, or aides are able to support a class. Tech supports: -Voice to text -Text reader -Virtual manipulatives -Videos -Accessibility features on students’ individual devices Time: -Extending time for assignments (students don’t have to be in the classroom to work) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4f993b07483e541773dcb6/1608557914626-IZXKX0B8OVUJNKTGO1TO/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Keeping Students Engaged in Remote Learning What I’ve found makes remote learning successful and engaging is what makes all learning for students successful: Adequate resources for every child Time for teachers to plan Small classes If your experience as an educator is missing any of these supports, that is certainly going to bring more challenges to remote learning. Yet, it is still possible to create an experience that is rewarding for your students, and doesn’t burn you out. 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Ability to embed YouTube videos directly onto slides Ability to insert audio file for narration of slides https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4f993b07483e541773dcb6/1605928901957-4OW7BLPTLU418JDCOBSA/kami.png Blog - My Favorite Things: Remote Teaching Resources - Ideal for: Creating lesson materials Creating student activity assignments Making and sharing editable PDF documents Highlights: Option to create “Kami assignment” on Google Classroom Ability to include media files directly in a document (photos, videos, and audio files) Presentation mode OCR conversion for text documents Ability to leave comments on documents for collaborators to read Text-to-speech function https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4f993b07483e541773dcb6/1605929078184-Z9345THBYOQXQVCCMEDS/image-asset.png Blog - My Favorite Things: Remote Teaching Resources - Ideal for: Virtual manipulatives for presenting a lesson or for student work Highlights: Each manipulative can be downloaded to browser for ease of access Shareable manipulative pages to model work and interact with students with greater ease https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4f993b07483e541773dcb6/1605931974099-QQRLKUO2IHESHTW40MTX/image-asset.jpeg Blog - My Favorite Things: Remote Teaching Resources - Ideal for: Math (and other subjects) Vocabulary development Multiplication/division fact practice Audio and visual learners Highlights Students can “build a beat” in the Vocab Game to review terms from videos Create your own lyrics to the instrumental music Flocabulary provides Integration with Google Classroom Videos can be assigned Quiz at the end of a video https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4f993b07483e541773dcb6/1605512806595-NYP6JHBU94R1QWNHEJJA/image-asset.jpeg Blog - My Favorite Things: Remote Teaching Resources - Stay tuned for next week’s post on strategies for keeping students engaged while learning math remotely. https://www.agmathsolutions.com/blog/teaching-math-with-care-an-approach-to-starting-the-new-school-year monthly 0.5 2021-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4f993b07483e541773dcb6/1602201520532-FS5DMCPBF6ABGJOANMA4/Fantastic+Elastic+Brain+Book.jpg Blog - Teaching Math with Care: a growth mindset approach to starting the new school year - Your Fantastic Elastic Brain Written by JoAnn Deak Illustrated by Sarah Ackerley https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4f993b07483e541773dcb6/1602202838023-TL0AXRGRL2PTTJNEFEMD/HoM.png Blog - Teaching Math with Care: a growth mindset approach to starting the new school year - Habits of Mind www.ascd.org https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4f993b07483e541773dcb6/1602343688177-1TUJSXVJY07KOCACD1R0/20201010_112238.jpg Blog - Teaching Math with Care: a growth mindset approach to starting the new school year https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4f993b07483e541773dcb6/1602203024224-LAMEBUNKP97LID3AZRTD/What+do+you+do+with+a+problem.jpg Blog - Teaching Math with Care: a growth mindset approach to starting the new school year - What Do You Do with a Problem Written by Kobi Yamada Illustrated by Mae Besom https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4f993b07483e541773dcb6/1602344257798-DAPLS5UHUEJGK7H8FJ8U/Math%2Btoolbox.jpg Blog - Teaching Math with Care: a growth mindset approach to starting the new school year https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4f993b07483e541773dcb6/1602694763125-ZZ6CQ9MRLF0BV58U2HDE/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Teaching Math with Care: a growth mindset approach to starting the new school year - In the next post, I’ll share my tips and tricks for teaching math remotely and in a hybrid model. 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Adler Goodreads.com: You had better not monkey around when it comes to place value. The monkeys in this book can tell you why! As they bake the biggest banana cupcake ever, they need to get the amounts in the recipe correct. There's a big difference between 216 eggs and 621 eggs. Place value is the key to keeping the numbers straight. Using humorous art, easy-to-follow charts and clear explanations, this book presents the basic facts about place value while inserting some amusing monkey business. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4f993b07483e541773dcb6/1603677391528-Y98NQ0X79JPRD2WLVQDA/anno%27s+mysterious+multiplying+jar.jpg Read-alouds and Children's Texts Anno's Mysterious Multiplying Jar by Maisachiro Anno Goodreads.com: "Superbly demonstrating the conception of factorials in mathematics, the text and pictures combine to present a lesson in a palatable form as well as the pleasure of looking at pictures that only Mitsumasa Anno could invent." — Publishers Weekly" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4f993b07483e541773dcb6/1603678690384-UBKYBAM2CQ18WYC5SN3Q/fractions+decimals+and+percents.jpg Read-alouds and Children's Texts Fractions, Decimals, and Percents by David A. Adler Goodreads.com: Step right up! Come take part in the county fair, where you'll see fractions, decimals, and percents everywhere. Gobble up a fraction of pie, boost your batting average in the arcade, and take a percent off the price of a toy. Learning about equivalent parts equals a whole lot of fun in this straightforward introduction to a challenging concept. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4f993b07483e541773dcb6/1603289418280-RSJZXSPA0OQZOBL8XV3C/Nothing+Stopped+Sophie.jpg Read-alouds and Children's Texts Nothing Stopped Sophie: The Story of Unshakable Story of Sophie Germain by Cheryl Bardoe Goodreads.com: "The true story of eighteenth-century mathematician Sophie Germain, who solved the unsolvable to achieve her dream." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4f993b07483e541773dcb6/1603307312562-J9GSZCJ3PMYQIMVGNA4I/A+Plave+for+Zero+Angeline+Sparagna+LoPresti.jpg Read-alouds and Children's Texts A Place for Zero by Angeline Sparagna LoPresti Goodreads.com: Zero is lonely in Digitaria. He can't play Addemup with the other numbers, because he has nothing to add. What's a digit to do? Join Zero as he goes on a journey to discover his place. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4f993b07483e541773dcb6/1603557404722-KOMSJL353FRG8B9CGDD8/The+Action+of+Subtraction.jpg Read-alouds and Children's Texts The Action of Subtraction by Brian P. Cleary Goodreads.com: The author and illustrator of the best-selling Words Are CATegorical(R) series brings their trademark sense of humor to the subject of subtraction. Rhyming text filled with funny, countable examples shows what it means to take one number away from another. Readers are also introduced to the terminology they'll encounter as they learn to subtract. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4f993b07483e541773dcb6/1603677414091-M4VDZMALTEZC7UDSQCID/one+hundred+angry+ants.jpg Read-alouds and Children's Texts One Hundred Hungry Ants by Elinor J. Pinczes Goodreads.com: One hundred hungry ants march off single file to sample a picnic, but when the going gets too slow, they divide into two rows of fifty, then four rows of twenty . . . until they take so long that the picnic is gone! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4f993b07483e541773dcb6/1603678926302-JNP7PDFOCRZOLBXQ53QN/perimeter+area+and+volume.jpg Read-alouds and Children's Texts Perimeter, Area, and Volume by David A. Adler Goodreads.com: Readers are invited to the premiere of a 3-D movie. The star-studded cast of monsters will help them calculate the perimeter of the set, the area of the movie screen, and the volume of their popcorn box. Learning about dimensions has never been so entertaining. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4f993b07483e541773dcb6/1603289419352-NLUXVPAO2O6GU2Q2CW1N/Numbers+in+Motion.jpg Read-alouds and Children's Texts Numbers in Motion: Sophie Kowalevski, Queen of Mathematicians by Laurie Wallmark Goodreads.com: "The book explores the life of the ground-breaking mathematician." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4f993b07483e541773dcb6/1603557657332-R12VSREK1YYIKFPI2SSI/The+Mission+of+Addition.jpg Read-alouds and Children's Texts The Mission of Addition by Brian P. Cleary Goodreads.com: In the first book of the Math Is Categorical(R) series, readers will become familiar with the concept of addition and its key terms. The author and illustrator of the best-selling Words Are CATegorical(R) series use their trademark sense of humor to add up the fun! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4f993b07483e541773dcb6/1603677382096-X3R0H6ZCFZIKVM2UYD3C/a+remainder+of+one.jpg Read-alouds and Children's Texts A Remainder of One b Elinor J. Pinczes Goodreads.com: Hup, two, three, four! We're in the 25th Army Corps. Queen's count! Two, three! We are the marching infantry! Poor Joe! He wants to march in the parade, but every time the lines are uneven, he must stand aside. What's a poor bug to do? Joe is determined. He studies the problem, relining the twenty-five bugs in his squadron from two lines to three lines to four lines, until inspiration and fortitude result in five lines of five -- and Joe fits in the last. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4f993b07483e541773dcb6/1603677547445-V6S57TDLWKSFJJ700MR0/How+Much+is+a+Million.jpg Read-alouds and Children's Texts How Much is a Million by David M. Schwartz How Much Is a Million? knocks complex numbers down to size in a fun, humorous way, helping children conceptualize a difficult mathematical concept. It's a math class you'll never forget. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4f993b07483e541773dcb6/1603678798418-85F01AO33NO79R8PYTJN/fractions+in+disguise.jpg Read-alouds and Children's Texts Fractions in Disguise by Edward Einhorn Goodreads.com: When a valuable fraction goes missing, George Cornelius Factor (a.k.a. GCF) vows to track it down. Knowing that the villainous Dr. Brok likes to disguise his ill-begotten fractions, GCF invents a Reducer—a tool that strips away the disguise, reducing the fraction and revealing its true form. Equal parts of action and humor add up to a wholly entertaining introduction to simplifying fractions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4f993b07483e541773dcb6/1603678939113-SYJ4IX0G2T4CK8UMZQCS/spaghetti+and+meatballs+for+all.jpg Read-alouds and Children's Texts Spaghetti and Meatballs for All: A Mathematical Story by Marilyn Burns Goodreads.com: Mr. and Mrs. Comfort have arranged tables and chairs to seat 32 people at their family reunion. But the guests have their own ideas for seating. Area and perimeter come alive as the family makes room for everyone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4f993b07483e541773dcb6/1603289418327-J79L6VNGQ9M7RQ5S446A/The+Girl+with+a+Mind+for+Math.jpg Read-alouds and Children's Texts The Girl with a Mind for Math: The Story of Raye Montague by Julia Finley Mosca Goodreads.com: "Meet Raye Montague--the hidden mastermind who made waves in the U.S. Navy!" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4f993b07483e541773dcb6/1603677734830-YDJRQLXE3PXUZP6MN0C6/Anno%27s+counting+house.jpg Read-alouds and Children's Texts Anno's Counting House by Mistumasa Anno One by one, ten children move from their old house into their new house with all their possessions. Die-cut windows reveal the interiors of the houses and the book can also be read from back to front. The first ten numbers and the principles of addition and subtraction are introduced not by rote but as part of a pleasant experience. All children are natural mathematicians, Anno believes, and by independent observation they can find other, more advanced concepts in this book. (less) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4f993b07483e541773dcb6/1603289432932-AJ3YKQ3M46NBYL8MOSZK/Counting+on+Katherine.jpg Read-alouds and Children's Texts Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13 by Helaine Becker Goodreads.com: "The story of Katherine Johnson, an African-American mathematician who worked for NASA during the space race and was depicted in the book and film Hidden Figures." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4f993b07483e541773dcb6/1603289442068-EI9TOHVBBL3OVF3ELJIR/Hedy+Lamarr+Double+Life.jpg Read-alouds and Children's Texts Hedy Lamarr's Double Life: Hollywood Legend and Brilliant Inventor by Laurie Wallmark Goodreads.com: "Movie star by day, ace inventor at night: learn about the hidden life of actress Hedy Lamarr!" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4f993b07483e541773dcb6/1603677838941-QZ7PIC6S02PFLZ8PWERW/anno%27s+counting+book.jpg Read-alouds and Children's Texts Anno's Counting House by Mitsumasa Anno Goodreads.com: In this book, Mitsumasa Anno, the creator of the brilliantly inventive Anno's Alphabet, invites young readers on another stimulating adventure of the imagination-this time into the world of numbers and counting. Gentle watercolor pictures show a landscape changing through the various times of day and the turning seasons, months and years, and the activities of the people and animals who come to live there. But the seemingly simple plan of the book is deceptive: look more carefully and you will see one-to-one correspondences; groups and sets; scales and tabulations; changes over time periods; and many other mathematical relationships as they occur in natural, everyday living. 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