PRESENTER S : ROBIN COOK & LABONNIE J . WISE

“Building Math Confidence through Daily Boost Up”

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What is engagement?

Take a few minutes and write down some descriptors of what it “looks like” and “sounds like” when students are engaged in your classroom.

Ground Rules

Take responsibility for your own learning Actively participate Ask questions Listen to learn Respect classmates creative thinking Honor time limits Silence cell phones (including texting)

Session Agenda

Session GoalsOpening Activity

Activities 1 & 2: What Doesn’t Belong?Course Set-upIntroduction to Mathstarters and Exit Tickets

Mathstarter & Share-outAdvantages: Mathstarters & Exit TicketsChallenges: Mathstarters & Exit TicketsGuided Learning ActivitiesQ & AExit Ticket

Session Goals

At conclusion of this workshop, participants will be able to:

Create and implement activities to foster student engagementFacilitate a learning environment that is student-centered; andDevelop and implement math starters and exit tickets in daily class sessions

How We Teach Makes A Difference!

Introductory Algebra Sample Weekly Schedule

Opening Activity: Clock Buddies

Purpose To foster engagement and networking in the classroom ev-eryday by creating pairs for daily partnered activities.

Activity 1: What Doesn’t Belong?

Activity 2: What Doesn’t Belong?

Resource

Strategies for Motivating Students

Following are some research-based strategies for motivating students to learn.

Become a role model for student interest. Get to know your students. Use examples freely Use a variety of student-active teaching activities Set realistic performance goals Place appropriate emphasis on testing and

grading Be free with praise and constructive in criticism Give students as much control over their own

education as possible

Course Set-up

Math Starter

s 10

minutes

Share-out5-10

minutes

Guided Activit

y 10-15

minutes

Mini-lessons

with quick

checks40

minutes

Exit Tickets

5 minute

s

Math Starters and Exit Tickets

Beginning each class session with a math starters will help you make the most effective use of your class time.

“Ticket to leave” (or “exit ticket”) is an ideal way to end a class.  It can serve as a number of purposes:

provide feedback to the instructor about the class;

require the student to do some synthesis of the day’s content; and

challenge the student with a question requiring some application of what was learned in the lesson.

Activity 3: Sample Math Starters

Advantages

Mathstarters

• Fosters engagement at the beginning of every class

• Builds math confidence in Dev Ed students

• Allows an opportunity for students to take own-ership of their learning

• Used a pre-assessment of students prior knowl-edge before teaching a topic

• Helps guide the usage of peer tutoring in the classroom

Exit Tickets

• Helps instructors plan the next day lesson

• Helps instructor infor-mally measure each stu-dents level of under-standing

• Allows an opportunity to apply skills to real world applications

• Brings closure to a lesson

Challenges

Mathstarters

• Students with very low skills feeling suc-cessful every class

• Instructors uses it to teach a lesson

• Instructors do not allow an opportunity for stu-dents to share out or work with peers

Exit Tickets

• Math Instructors not us-ing the data collected from the exit ticket

• Using closed-ended ques-tionsinstead of open-ended questions

Q & A

2 B IG IDEAS I HEARD IN TH IS SESS ION

(WRITE THESE DOWN)

1 B IG “AHA” MOMENT I HAD

(SHARE WITH GROUP)

Exit Ticket

Resources

Andersen, M. (2011). Intermediate Algebra Instructor’s Resource Binder. Cengage Learning www.cengage.com

Bridge to Algebra, www.carnegielearning.com Greenberg, Dan. (1996). Funny & Fabulous Fraction Stories.

Scholastic Teaching Resources Muschla, Gary, et al. (1998). Math Starters! 5-to-10 Minute

Activities That Make Kids Think, Grades 6-12 www.wiley.com Muschla, Gary, et al. (2013). Math Starters: 5-to-10 Minute

Activities Aligned with the Common Core Math Standards, Grade 6-12 www.wiley.com

Thompson, Frances M. (2010). The Algebra Teacher’s Activity-a-Day, Grades 6-12: Over 180 Quick Challenges for Developing Math and Problem Solving Skills. www.wiley.com

www.teachertoolkit.com/index.php/tool/print-tool/exit-ticket www.newtoncsd.org/Downloads/clock_buddies.pdf