To teach well, we need to maximize students' opportunities for success by providing lots and lots of positive learning tools, resources, support, and coaching.
As I reviewed a host of student assessment scores today, I thought about the math learning menu, and what we can do to help every child succeed.
We know the following activities support students well:
- Review vocabulary in meaningful ways and make vocabulary easy to review. Posting a vocabulary slideshow can help students and educators readily review important words related to the learning. Thanks to the educators at Granite School for their wonderful work that supported this slide show: Granite School Vocabulary
- Provide learning menus and teaching support for student learning. Update menus regularly to support students' at-home, in-class independent, small group, and partner study.
- Maintain a content website that supports student learning.
- Provide online and offline practice opportunities for assessments.
- Utilize visual models and coach students to make their own visual models online and off:
- Focus on the standards and teach those standards in numerous ways, ways that respond to students' individual and collective needs as well as empower and engage students' interest, collaborative learning/problem solving, and inspires creativity and curation of related materials.
- Work collaboratively with colleagues who support student learning and teaching.
What would you add to this list? How do you ensure that you teach a complete, multi-modal, full service math program to each and every student? I look forward to your thoughts.
