Transcript Differentiation without Differentiating your Students

Keeping Up, Not Catching Up!
NCTM- San Diego 2010
Good Morning!
Please try the puzzle
1. Remove only three straws.
2. Move no straws to different
positions
3. Leave only three squares.
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Shannon
Sauder
[email protected]
For the 7 year old Child
It’s too early for
“I can’t…”
“ I don’t know how…”
For the Classroom Teacher
It’s a time filled without
seconds to breath or use
the restroom… What can
you do to be effective?
Strategies
Open-Ended Problem Solving
Previews instead of interventions
Goals instead of limits
Fact practice
Visually more effective work
Open Ended Problem Solving
On Sunday my piggy bank was empty.
On Monday, I put in 1 penny. On
Tuesday, I put in 2 pennies. On
Wednesday I put in 3 pennies.
Think Math! Headline Story, Chapter 1 Lesson 2
Kids Notebook Examples
I have six pennies.
On Thursday I put
in four pennies or
on Thursday I put in zero pennies, on
Friday I put in one penny.
I have some pennies.
Extend
it for the high, how many
pennies
will you have next Thursday?
Open Ended Problem Solving
Video Here-
Think Math!
Grade2
Headline
Story
Headline Story
Chapter 11: Lesson 1
Visually Effective Work
For
Children with organizational or
executive functioning difficulties:
Use
highlighters or colored pencils to point out
organizational features
Use post-it notes to cover up problems the
student is not working on.
Use index cards to track information in tables
Math Tools
Create Independence
Demonstrate how to use
Model the importance of
Video Here:
Number Line
Hotel
Counting by
Tens
Interventions as Previews
You will notice that
the same student who
had difficulty making
the jump of ten, now
can make a jump of
nine with the number
line hotel.
Video Here:
Number Line
Hotel
Skip Counting
by 9
Number Line Hotel: Think Math!
Fact Practice
Fact of the Day
Warm Up
Pairs to…
Math Specialist
of the Day
Video
Here:
Pairs to 30
More on fact practice at http://thinkmath.edc.org
No more “I can’ts”
No more “I don’t know how’s”
Believe in them and what they do know
And show them more than they could ever
imagine achieving
Thank You
Cunniff Room 158- Second Grade
EDC - Paul Goldenberg & Melody
Hachey
Cindy Carter
Janice Mandile- for courage
Contact: [email protected]
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