I'm really excited to be hosting another online book study that will be starting on January 13th. I delayed the start time a couple weeks so anyone who needs to pick up a copy of the book has time to do that. We will be reading and discussing 5 Practices for Orchestrating Productive Mathematics Discussions by Margaret S. Smith and Mary Kay Stein.
I hate to go all Charlotte Danielson on you all, but that is my reality and my PPG this year is Component 3b:Using Questioning and Discussion Techniques
Elements include:
› Quality of questions/prompts
› Discussion techniques
› Student participation
I'm really hoping this book study will help me improve both questioning and discussion techniques in my math classroom. It is my goal to enrich my collaborative classroom culture to include student initiated higher order questions and thoughtful student led discussions prompted by rich mathematical tasks.
Each Tuesday morning I will post a chapter summary with discussion questions, reflections, and a link up for you to share your blog post. Please make sure you read and share comments on others' posts. Don't feel you have to follow the structure as set up when writing your post. If you prefer to just blog about what you read, do that. The discussion questions will be prompts for anyone looking for some guidance as to what to blog about. There is no right or wrong way to participate. Use #5practices on Twitter to also share your blog post. Any twitter discussion about the reading should include the same hashtag. If there is interest in a scheduled twitter chat time to discuss the reading, we can decide on that as we go. If you are not active on twitter now is a great time to start, or you can just link up with your blog posts if you prefer.
Hopefully as the book study continues we will all be able to share stories and examples of how we are improving our discussions in our own classrooms.
Please feel free to leave any questions in the comments section or you can reach me on twitter @luvbcd I'm looking forward to learning from and sharing with all of you!
Elements include:
› Quality of questions/prompts
› Discussion techniques
› Student participation
I'm really hoping this book study will help me improve both questioning and discussion techniques in my math classroom. It is my goal to enrich my collaborative classroom culture to include student initiated higher order questions and thoughtful student led discussions prompted by rich mathematical tasks.
Each Tuesday morning I will post a chapter summary with discussion questions, reflections, and a link up for you to share your blog post. Please make sure you read and share comments on others' posts. Don't feel you have to follow the structure as set up when writing your post. If you prefer to just blog about what you read, do that. The discussion questions will be prompts for anyone looking for some guidance as to what to blog about. There is no right or wrong way to participate. Use #5practices on Twitter to also share your blog post. Any twitter discussion about the reading should include the same hashtag. If there is interest in a scheduled twitter chat time to discuss the reading, we can decide on that as we go. If you are not active on twitter now is a great time to start, or you can just link up with your blog posts if you prefer.
Hopefully as the book study continues we will all be able to share stories and examples of how we are improving our discussions in our own classrooms.
Please feel free to leave any questions in the comments section or you can reach me on twitter @luvbcd I'm looking forward to learning from and sharing with all of you!
I am very interested in your online book study. I read 5 Practices over the summer and look forward to reading it again and discussing with other teachers. Thanks!
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Can't wait to read your thoughts about the book Sara!
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