Incorporating academic dialogue into a mathematics classroom is easy if you start small and build your understanding of the processes as you go. The Conditions for Thinking and Learning provide a framework for expectations.
Mathematics is a crucial subject that serves as a foundation for many concepts, processes and skills that all students will need in their lives. The challenges faced by today’s educators when teaching elementary mathematics can have a profound impact on student learning and future success. In this blog post, I will explore some of the current challenges in teaching elementary mathematics and discuss potential solutions.
One step toward making change can be to incorporate a literacy-based planning tool that equips teachers with building coherent learning experiences through a daily learning sequence that integrates purposeful literacy practices in support of clear learning objectives.
How might we use data to proactively design instruction that intentionally supports how students learn? How DO students learn? Well, literacy is the answer to that question. Literacy is how we all learn. Therefore, we should be very intentional in designing instruction that ensures we are attending to the learning needs of our students.
Schools and districts are so often looking for a silver bullet to improve student outcomes. This isn’t new, we’ve been doing it for years and I’ve yet to find or hear of that ONE SINGLE THING that does it. With a mindset of not this or that, but both/and, teachers can begin to take the best of the resources they have before them to engage students in learning the content.
To get better at our craft we need to reflect, and protocols allow us to reflect on our practice with our peers. Together we get better.
The Adolescent Literacy Model is easily adaptable for meeting the needs of Multilingual Learners in heterogeneous classrooms. As teachers strategically select ALM strategies for their lessons, they can simultaneously plan modifications for their students with limited English proficiency.
