Purposeful Planning: Ways to Engage All Students in the Math Classroom

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Math Teachers: Through the lens of a content-focused planning and reflection process, participants will investigate strategies, tools, and routines that support teachers to focus on the mathematics that matters most while also strengthening student understanding, attending to unfinished learning, and increasing student discourse. 

Course Details

Start Date: 10/06/2020 
End Date: 11/16/2020 
Duration: 6 weeks 
Cost: $20*
Primary Audience: K-12 Math Teachers
Certificate: A certificate showing 12 hours of professional learning is available up course completion. Please reach out to your school district to ensure they will accept it. 

Register here. 

Refund Policy: If for any reason you need to drop your facilitated course before the course starts or up to 2 days after the course begins, you will receive a full refund. There are no refunds after the second day of the course. Please contact us at virtual-learning@studentsachieve.net to request your refund.

See the accordion below to review the requirements, pacing, and syllabus. 

  • Course Goals
    • Know what mathematics is emphasized in college- and career-ready standards and articulate why that matters
    • Understand the coherent design structure of college- and career-ready standards
    • Understand how to analyze and implement high-quality aligned tasks through the lens  of conceptual understanding, procedural skill and fluency, and application
    • Know how to incorporate discussion supports and language routines to improve student discourse 
    • Investigate how to tackle unfinished learning through the Shifts of Focus, Coherence, and Rigor 
  • Course Requirements

    To successfully complete this course and earn your certificate showing 12 hours of professional learning, you must complete the following: 

    • Take the pre-assessment
    • Watch all videos
    • Complete all embedded interactive activities
    • Submit all assignments
    • Participate in all the discussion boards 
    • Take the post-assessment
  • Course Pacing

    Because this is a self-paced course, you have the freedom to complete the course within a few days or within the six weeks timeframe. However, our recommended pacing is that you spend approximately three hours on each of the four modules over the span of four weeks. 

  • Course Syllabus
    Unit 1: The Math That Matters the Most

    Objective: You will learn what mathematics is emphasized in college- and career-ready standards and articulate why it matters.. 

    By the end of the unit, you will:

    • Identify the Major Work of the Grade for your grade level and explain why it matters

    • Familiarize yourself with the Instructional Practice Guide, the Beyond the Lesson Discussion Guide, and the Lesson Planning Quick Reference Guide as well as reflect upon how these resources attend to the Shift of Focus

    • Analyze a year-long pacing guide with the lens of the Major Work of the Grade

    • Reflect upon your current practices in an effort to incorporate the Shift of Focus into your daily lesson planning approach

    Unit 2: The Coherent Nature of Mathematics 

    Objective:  You will understand the coherent design structure of the standards and how it can help teachers approach unfinished learning. 

    By the end of the unit, you will:

    • Understand the Shift of Coherence and its role in approaching unfinished learning

    • Familiarize yourself with the Coherence Map and the resources it offers

    • Use the coherence map to plan for and address unfinished learning in a specific standard

    • Identify how the Instructional Practice Guide, the Beyond the Lesson Discussion Guide, and the Lesson PLanning Quick Reference Guide attends to the Shift of Coherence

    • Reflect upon your current practices in an effort to incorporate the Shift of Coherence into your daily lesson planning approach

    Unit 3: The Power of the Task

    Objective: You will understand how to analyze and implement high-quality aligned tasks through the lens of conceptual understanding, procedural skill and fluency, and application (Shift of Rigor).

    By the end of the unit, you will:

    • Identify the Aspects of Rigor

    • Analyze tasks in terms of how they address the Aspects of Rigor and how that affects the approach to unfinished learning

    • Identify how the Instruction Practice Guide, the Beyond the Lesson Discussion Guide, and the Lesson Planning Quick Reference Guide attends to the Shift of Rigor

    • Reflect upon your current practices in an effort to incorporate the Shift of Rigor into your daily lesson planning approach

    Unit 4: Increasing and Improving Student Discourse to Support Student Learning

    Objective: You will know how to incorporate discussion supports and language routines to improve student discourse in the classroom.

    By the end of the unit, you will:

    • Understand the role of student discourse in a strong math classroom

    • Learn a variety of strategies and routines, including the Math Language Routines, to increase and improve student discourse into the classroom

    • Plan a high-quality aligned task while incorporating Math Language Routines

    • Action plan to incorporate more student talk into your classroom

    • Identify how the Instruction Practice Guide, the Beyond the Lesson Discussion Guide, and the Lesson Planning Quick Reference Guide attend to the inclusion of student discourse

    • Reflect upon your current practices in an effort to increase and improve student discourse into your daily lesson planning approach