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1. Relate math content back to real life problems and examples
2. Make math more engaging using games, technology, and projects.
3. Allow students to collaborate

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Ways to have effective classroom management:

1. Understand my students. Get to know each student as an individual.

2. Make safe spaces for my students

3. Include my students experience and backgrounds in actives and lessons

4. Practice patience

5. Set effective rules, limits, and values

6. Reflect on what worked and what did not

7. Be aware of the causes of behavior

8. Engage with students

9. Create a COMMUNITY

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- Teachers should seek to create a safe space for learners
- Teachers should design a physical classroom that promotes and encourages community
- Building a sense of community helps reduce classroom management problems because students become part of the community that builds upon values and provides support

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Teacher uses and optimistic and enthusiastic outlook
- This helps create a space that invites student participation and less undesired behaviors.
Communicating student success based on past success
- Using students success in other ares of their lives will help them be motivated to success in your class.
Demonstrating a high regard for teaching and learning
- Letting students know that just like their time and effort in the classroom is important and valuable, so are theirs.

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2. High Student Engagement in Course Content

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2. High Student Engagement in Course Content

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Teachers design and deliever lessons that:
- focus on comprehension of rigorous content (math, science, art. etc.)
- Include students' experiences, cultural backgrounds, and cultural practices
- provide multiple learning pathways and allows students to use their varied learning strengths (visual, kinesthetic, spatial, etc.)
- Classroom knowledge should be co-constructed by students.

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- Reflect on action: What worked and what did not from past activities.
- Teachers are able to generate new understandings, feelings, and experiences to help expand their work in the future.
- Helps teachers make their teaching practices responsive to the needs of students in diverse learning contexts.
- Should also be taught to students.

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Chapter 3: Classroom Management is About Effective Instruction

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Chapter 3: Classroom Management is About Effective Instruction

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The Quadratic Formula Song - With Harmony

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Students will have to rehearse vocabulary words.
- knowing vocabulary is important when reading word problems
Students will have to rehearse formulas.
- In math one of the only ways to remember formulas is by finding a way to remember it.
- Songs, connections, ways to solve

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Surveys my students to determine their interests and
what other courses they are taking.
I can then relate concepts to those interests and courses.
For example: When learning about graphing equations. I can have kids do a project where they find lines, parabolas, and cubic equations

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Elaboration is the process of expanding information to make it meaningful. 

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Elaboration is the process of expanding information to make it meaningful. 

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Elaboration can help to build memory networks and link them with other relevant ones

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Rehearsal: rehearsal helps to build memory networks with word spellings, meanings, and usage.

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Rehearsal: rehearsal helps to build memory networks with word spellings, meanings, and usage.

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In the classroom, rehearsal can look like:
- Practicing lines and movements for a skit
- Vocabulary words
- formulas

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- When working with mean, median, mode students can use a normal curve
- Vocabulary chart when working with new concepts or word problems
- Problem Solving charts: asking and answering questions

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Organization: visual organizer is more meaningful to students than written information .

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Organization: visual organizer is more meaningful to students than written information .

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In the classroom using organizers, such as graphic organizers.
- Using a timeline to chronologically organize
- Using a Venn Diagram to compare/contrast
- Using an organizer for cause/effect
- Using a Concept Map or Consequence chart

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Factors such as organization, rehearsal, and elaboration help the brain impose structure on learning and assist in the consolidation of neural connections in memory. 

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Factors such as organization, rehearsal, and elaboration help the brain impose structure on learning and assist in the consolidation of neural connections in memory. 

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Teachers can incorporate these ideas in various ways

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Make activities and lessons interesting and use different learning strategies to help engage all students.

Teachers can include movement for those kinesthetic learners. Teachers can use pictures, charts, and graphs for visual learners. Teachers can use music/songs for formulas and other important information for auditory or musical learners.

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Help understand the conditioning and cognitive learning

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Help understand the conditioning and cognitive learning

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There are several types of memory and they all pertain to learning differently

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Much procedural information becomes automatized such that procedures can be accomplished with little or no conscious awareness (e.g., typing, riding a bicycle)

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The parts of the brain primarily involved in memory and information processing are the cortex and the medial temporal lobe (Wolfe, 2001). It appears that the brain processes and stores memories in the same structures that initially perceive and process information.

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Sensory inputs are processed in the sensory memories portions of the brain

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Cognitive neuroscience research shows that various environmental factors can arouse and maintain people’s attention. These factors include importance, novelty, intensity, and movement.

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As a teacher, I need to relate everything we are learning back to how it is important in real life. So many times students as, “Why do we need to learn this?” “When will we ever use this in life?”

Ex. “e = mc²” means nothing at all until we understand that the ‘e’ (for ‘energy’), the ‘m’ (for the mass of an object) and the ‘c’ (the speed at which light travels) have real values in the real world. It is useful to engineering, medical research, transportation technologies, chemistry and energy generation.

Math can be used:

to the realm of space exploration

the field of microbiology

The pursuit of sports performance

the compelling virtual worlds of gaming and digital media

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How to incorporate context in a math classroom:

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How to incorporate context in a math classroom:

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Start new topics with a story. It can be as simple as a youtube video, a book, or even taking the student to a place where they can see math in action.

Integrate or relate mathematics into other subject areas.

Use ‘authentic’ and ‘rich’ tasks in the maths classroom. Such as problem solving, situations with real life responses, and open ended questions

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These points suggest that to make learning meaningful—and thereby build more extensive neural connections—teachers should incorporate context as much as possible

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These points suggest that to make learning meaningful—and thereby build more extensive neural connections—teachers should incorporate context as much as possible

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Focusing primarily on content instead of context produces student learning that may be unconnected to life events and largely meaningless.

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Brain research shows that much academic content is processed primarily in the left hemisphere, but that the right hemisphere processes context

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Studying the brain can help create innovations and advancements for the field of education.

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Studying the brain can help create innovations and advancements for the field of education.

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Use students' interest in contextualized tasks.

Expose students to a diverse group of mathematicians.

Examples:

David Blackwell was an incredible American statistician and mathematician who made significant contributions to game theory, probability theory, information theory, and Bayesian statistics.

Marjorie Browne was the third black woman to earn a PhD in mathematics (1949,  University of Michigan). She chaired the Mathematics Department at North Carolina College and, in 1960, she set up an electronic digital computer center there, one of the first of its kind at a minority college.

LCHS teacher celebrates the many faces of math

Design assessments and assignments with a variety of response types.

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How to incorporate identity into my classroom and in a math classroom

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How to incorporate identity into my classroom and in a math classroom

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Student learning is enhanced when information is presented through relevant funds of identity. As a teacher, I need to:

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Student learning is enhanced when information is presented through relevant funds of identity. As a teacher, I need to:

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Express interest in the ethnic background of my students

Create a safe place for students to be themselves

Include activities where students can talk about their culture and background

After learning about my students backgrounds and culture, include them into lessons and activities so all students can learn from each other

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Funds of knowledge connects home, school and community. Identity  helps the student-teacher relationship by bridging the gap between the teacher and student.

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Funds of knowledge connects home, school and community. Identity  helps the student-teacher relationship by bridging the gap between the teacher and student.

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social relationships

significant others

particular activities and practices

political ideologies

religious beliefs or any other artifact

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There are four critical components of Identity.

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There are four critical components of Identity.

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1. People, skills and resources.
2. People and artifacts.
3. Form their identities from social activities.
4. Identity is essentially social in origin.

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Identity is often considered to take place solely within the mind of the individual.

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Identity is often considered to take place solely within the mind of the individual.

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Fixed in people’s head

Personality trait

Embedded in culture

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identities are social products, cultural devices, a kind of box of tools which can be used to define oneself.

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Funds of Identity: Identity is lived experiences

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Funds of Identity: Identity is lived experiences

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Identities are also symbolic (mediated by signs and symbols), reflexive (recognizing the self-in-practice and the self as a person), and a source of motivation for action (psychological device which is used to organize behavior in any activity and to make meaning and purpose).

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identity is a conceptual artifact that contains, connects, and enables reflection over the emotional and cognitive processes of self-understanding and self-defining from the past, present, and future