Concept Based Mathematics Chapter 5 by Dakota Lanphear

What strategies do you employ to engage and motivate the hearts and minds of your students?

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How do you keep students on task in a social learning environment?

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How do you promote a growth mindset in your classroom and encourage mistakes as part of the learning process?

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Social Learning Environments

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Collaborative environments have been shown to increase engagement and understanding. Using strategies such as "Scribe Protocol" allow students to learn from each other instead of directly from the teacher. Environments where students are able to be social and gain ideas from multiple sources creates differentiation while maintaining an engaging environment.

Wathall Strategy 4

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Decreasing the amount of time where the teacher is talking reduces "tune out" in students. They often prefer a social setting compared to a lecture.

Keep Students Accountable to Each other

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When working in groups it is important to instill the idea of "responsibility to others", since it is a key feature of collaboration. Assigning partial objectives where each student is responsible for a certain portion of a project/assignment helps ensure that students will remain on task. When their peers are counting on them, they don't want to let them down.

Tri Mind Activities

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Give students various choices in how to respond to questions and assignments. Providing avenues for analytical, practical, and creative approaches allows students to respond in a method that best suits them.

How to better frame mistakes

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Oftentimes students only make partial errors when solving problems, or it might be in the wrong context. Mistakes can be discouraging for students, but framing them in the proper way can show that mistakes are a good thing in the learning process. One possible strategy could be comparing a wrong answer to a right answer on the whiteboard, and studying the difference in strategy. Talk about what the wrong answer got right, and other contexts where it may be a correct answer. It is important to point out rights and wrongs at an equal frequency when reviewing.

A proper growth mindset

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In a proper environment, students should get to the point where difficult problems are embraced while knowing that mistakes lead to understanding. Students should be encouraged to explore their own avenues when introduced to new topics so they can compare their own thinking to already established concepts. This allows them to form their own unique understanding while also encouraging learning from mistakes.