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2nd Grade Flynn Research Lesson Templates (23-24).pptx

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2nd grade agenda #15: Post Research Lesson Reflection

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2nd Grade Lesson Study Agenda: Team Mtg #14: mock lesson

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2nd Grade Lesson Study Agenda: Team Mtg #13: plan mock lesson and public lesson day

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2nd Grade Lesson Study Agenda: Team Mtg #11: Final draft of plan for feedback

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2nd Grade Lesson Study Agenda: Team Mtg #12: Responding to feedback

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2nd Grade Lesson Study Agenda: Team Mtg #12: Final draft of plan for feedback

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2nd Grade Lesson Study Agenda: Team Mtg #10: Planning the Lesson

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2nd Grade Lesson Study Agenda: Team Mtg #9: Planning the Lesson

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2nd grade Lesson Study Agenda: Team Mtg #8: Planning the Unit

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2nd grade Lesson Study Agenda: Team Mtg #7: Planning the Unit

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2nd Grade Lesson Study Team Plan #6: Studying the Math

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2nd Grade: Lesson Study PD Meeting #5: Studying the Math

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2nd grade Lesson Study Agenda #3: Researching the RQ

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2nd Grade Lesson Study Agenda: Team Meeting#2, Researching the RQ

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2nd Grade Lesson Study Agenda: Team Mtg #1 

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2nd grade Student Artifact Share Template

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Flynn 2nd Grade Lesson Study Plan (DRAFT)

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Teach a Mock-Up Lesson - The Lesson Study Group

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Confirm Research Lesson Day Responsibilities - The Lesson Study Group

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University of San Diego - Professional & Continuing Education

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Productive struggle - it sounds like an oxymoron but makes perfect sense when utilized properly in a classroom setting. When students engage in this strategic challenge, they're encouraged to make more attempts than they may be used to and persevere through frustration to solve a problem. The goal is bigger than providing a correct answer - it's about the process of getting there. Students can foster critical thinking skills, persistence, self-regulation, and more with productive struggle. There are many strategies for teachers to implement this concept once it is clearly understood.
What Is Productive Struggle? Why Productive Struggle Is Important Key Elements of Productive Struggle Benefits of Productive Struggle Productive Struggle Implementation Strategies Best Practices for Leveraging Productive Struggle
What Is Productive Struggle?

Productive struggle is intended to help students develop strong habits of the mind - perseverance, flexible thinking and active learning. This state of engagement can be somewhat uncomfortable for students as they experiment with trial-and-error, but well-trained teachers ensure proper guidance. Productive struggle can be implemented with varying subject matter, but is most common in K-12 math.

By practicing productive struggle, students go beyond passive reading, listening or watching. Their brains actually produce myelin - the protective covering surrounding nerve cells that control thinking and muscles - which helps with retaining new skills. Learners' engagement with productive struggle is expected to be weak at first but will become the norm with practice.

Why Productive Struggle Is Important

Teachers who encourage productive struggle help students become highly successful problem solvers far beyond the classroom setting.

When students are encouraged struggle productively, as they attempt to solve a problem, they will start to ask themselves these questions:

Does anything jump out at me right away?

What is the question asking?

What information is provided?

What part might give me trouble?

Questions like these are a great start to concrete comprehension and engagement.

Productive struggle can be especially useful in the realm of mathematics, where instruction based solely on memorization and arithmetic all too often leads students to misunderstand and dislike math.

Key Elements of Productive Struggle

One of the goals of productive struggle is for students to be able to develop a conceptual understanding of a question and implement their own creative solution. These are some tips for teachers to assist with the process:

Communicate to students that not knowing how to solve a problem at the outset is not a failure, but instead an expected part of the process.

Encourage out-of-the-box thinking.

Allow students to share their reasoning and support each others' processes.

Reinforce that the trial-and-error process could come with feelings of discouragement - and that's okay!

A productive struggle must:

Challenge a specific weakness, not just overwhelm a student

Exist in specific activities and assignments, not throughout the entire school day

Provide space for students to use metacognitive skills

It becomes unproductive when:

Students are overwhelmed by frustration because they are unclear on or unable to achieve the goal

Students are left on their own without support

Missteps along the way are not presented as an option

Throughout the process, teachers should be aware of providing motivation and constructive feedback without giving away any answers. Even if a strong attempt by a student does not work out, creative problem solving should be praised.

Benefits of Productive Struggle

The beauty of productive struggle is that there is no single way to do it. During authentic engagement with a math problem, for example, some students will choose to visually draw out the question with shapes while other classmates break the same question down into more manageable pieces.

Over time, problem-solving as a process will become the norm, helping students take ownership of their learning beyond the lesson at hand. Students who know how to productively struggle will learn to:

Plan strategies

Set goals

Understand that success comes from effort, not only innate abilities

Know how and when to ask for help

To get you started with this educational method, here are some examples of productive struggle:

Ask students to find multiple solutions

Dig deeper into why a solution worked and how it was discovered

Apply the same concept to different scenarios

Ways to Use Productive Struggle in the Classroom

Present a problem and step back to allow students to work through it on their own.

Practice over time to limit burnout. Students who space out their learning outperform students who try to learn everything in longer sessions.

Force the retrieval of memories by giving students frequent practice tests. Opting for short-answer questions instead of multiple choice is a great way to strengthen thought processes.

Interleaving, or mixing new lessons in with the old, is another great way to get students using their long-term memory over just the short-term.

Best Practices for Managing Productive Struggle

If students are struggling and asking for help, these are some best practices to consider:

Offer a new starting place

Present a problem-solving strategy

Acknowledge any perseverance

Foster a non-competitive learning environment

Set the stage with an attitude that no effort is wasted

Encourage exploration

Display work that demonstrates creative problem solving, not only top scores

For more resources, explore the Education Certificate through the University of San Diego's Professional and Continuing Education program, intended to motivate teachers to improve and enhance their instructional techniques.

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What Is Productive Struggle? [+ Strategies for Teachers]

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Are you implementing #ProductiveStruggle in the classroom? Our new guide shows you how, including specific strategies and useful training. [Link]

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Yardsticks

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I suggest watching the 4 videos of a second grade classroom going through the stages of a TTP lesson.

How does the teacher promote a diversity of voices?

How does the teacher activate a growth mindset to support students to take on productive struggle?

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How Do Teachers Support Problem-solving?

Although students do much of the talking and questioning in a TTP lesson, teachers play a crucial role. The widely-known 5 Practices for Orchestrating Mathematical Discussions were based in part on TTP. Teachers study the curriculum, anticipate student thinking, and select and sequence the student presentations that allow the class to build the new mathematics. Classroom routines for presentation and discussion of student work, board organization, and reflective mathematics journals work together to allow students to do the mathematical heavy lifting. To learn more about journals, board work, and discussion in TTP, as well as see other TTP resources and examples of TTP in action, click on the respective tabs near the top of this page.

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Although students do much of the talking and questioning in a TTP lesson, teachers play a crucial role. The widely-known 5 Practices for Orchestrating Mathematical Discussions were based in part on TTP. Teachers study the curriculum, anticipate student thinking, and select and sequence the student presentations that allow the class to build the new mathematics.

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2nd grade notecatcher: TTP videos from Mills

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2nd grade notecatcher: TTP videos from Mills

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2nd Grade Lesson Study Research Notecatcher

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Listening to colleagues thinking: • What did you learn from listening to your colleagues that was interesting or surprising? • What new perspectives did your colleagues provide? • How can you make use of your colleagues’ perspectives?

Reflecting on one’s own thinking: • What questions about teaching and assessment did looking at the students’ work raise for you? • How can you pursue these questions further? • Are there things you would like to try in your classroom as a result of looking at this student’s work?

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Gretch notes on 12/6 public lesson at Muir

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Gretch notes on 12/6 public lesson at Muir

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Gretch notes from 12/6 Public Lesson at Muir

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This is where we are gathering various resources for our research. Feel free to browse, and feel free to add to it! (Julia, the resource you shared last meeting has been added.)

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Notecatcher, Collaborative Math  Classroom, Chapter 4: Building and Sharing Authority

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Notecatcher, Collaborative Math  Classroom, Chapter 4: Building and Sharing Authority

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Achievethecore.org :: Instructional Content Nav - Mathematics: Focus by Grade Level

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The Common Core and other college- and career-ready (CCR) standards call for a greater focus in mathematics. Rather than racing to cover topics in a mile-wide, inch-deep curriculum, CCR standards require us to significantly narrow and deepen the way time and energy are spent in the math classroom. We focus deeply on the major work of each grade so that students can gain strong foundations: solid conceptual understanding, a high degree of procedural skill and fluency, and the ability to apply the math they know to solve problems inside and outside the math classroom. The following documents illustrate these concepts using the Common Core State Standards, but Focus, Coherence, and Rigor are integral to all college- and career-ready standards.

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Jamboard for notes on math content research

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Jamboard for notes on math content research

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Flynn 2nd Grade Notes on Math Content Research - Google Jamboard

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Flynn 2nd Grade overview of teaching units 2023-24 <school, grade>

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Flynn Second Grade Copy of K-3 Japan Math Unit Sequencing

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Math Misconceptions: From Misunderstanding to Deep Understanding

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Math Misconceptions: From Misunderstanding to Deep Understanding

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Pages 20-24 deal with multiplication.

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Some of this is copywrited so we can use but not share:

"Since my slides include copyrighted images, which I have permission to use only for my presentations, I cannot share them as slide files.

Please use the presentation notes in PDF as a reference for your further PD and research lesson proposals."

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Van de Walle Chapter 8 (the multiplication and division pages)

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Van de Walle Chapter 8 (the multiplication and division pages)

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Van de Walle Chapter 8 (making sense of multiplication and division).pdf

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tUzwm0majek1fiLXPaEwNKo7jbR0QVge0hDD3e0RmkE/edit

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13. Multiplication and Division - Van De Walle Ch. 13.pdf

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https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0ByHH8Dz5e4kXUy05dHJsOW1wVGM?resourcekey=0--RklMtnhSdoMWPR6jEe8XQ&usp=drive_link

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We may focus more on this next week, but if it's helpful we can start to use it this week too. It seems like it might go hand in hand with lesson flow.

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Flynn 2nd Grade Unit 11 analysis protocol

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Flynn 2nd Grade Unit 11 analysis protocol

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