Education in the United States Gina Mulranen Math Teacher

About This Lesson  This lesson is designed to be structured like a typical lesson in the United States might look like and include some common activities.

Warm-Up: KWL What you KNOWWhat you WANT to LearnWhat You LEARNED

U.S. School System  Pre-School, Pre-Kindergarten, Kindergarten  Elementary, Middle, High school  Tracking (varies by school)  AP (Advanced Placement)  Honors  College Prep  Academic  Special Education  Gifted Program  University or Trade School

Other Education Options  Charter Schools  Not controlled by the government  Funded by the government  Cyber Charter Schools  Home Schooling  Report to the local school district  Home school evaluation  PHAA – Pennsylvania Homeschooling Accreditation Agency (only state that provides this)  Private Schools  Montessori – hands on and exploration learning (no tests)  Quaker Schools  Parochial schools  Affiliated with a church

My Education to be a Math Teacher  University class requirements  Honors classes  Field experience  2 nd year  Rotations with different school options  Student teaching  One semester gradually taking the full teaching load of the cooperating teacher

Current Events in U.S. Education  Think-Pair-Share: What are some topics, events, or stories you have heard about with education in the United States?

Achievement Gap  S8Gk_I S8Gk_I  Problems:  Budget issues  Teacher’s salaries  What ideas do you have?

Common Core  Overview: Purpose of Common Core  9sER0 9sER0  Math Standards:  ce/ ce/

Common Core Examples  Focus on the Question  Choose a student to bring in a set of data on Monday and each day pose a different problem about the data or have the students create the problems that they would be interested in knowing about.  Students can rotate being the person to gather data.  Number webs  Encourages flexibility with numbers  Headline Stories  Provide an equation or answer ($4.50) as the headline and the students write the story from Putting the Practices Into Action by Susan O’Connell and John SanGiovanni

More Common Core Examples  Eliminate It  Students are presented with four math concepts and asked to decide on the one that should be eliminated and give clear reasoning on their choice  Agree or Disagree  Teacher or student poses a math statement and the students work together to agree to disagree, providing reasoning to justify their stance.  In My Head?  Students are presented with a handful of problems and they need to decide which can be done on paper and which can be done mentally and explain how.  Increase mental math and their efficiency from Putting the Practices Into Action by Susan O’Connell and John SanGiovanni

Common Core Reactions  bjg_o8vg bjg_o8vg

21 st Century Skills

Technology Tools and Initiatives  Online tools for modeling  iew=search&type=ac iew=search&type=ac  iPads  Online textbooks  Online research  Differentiation  Nearpod lessons Nearpod  Google drive  Apple TV

Cyber Education  Learning Management Systems (LMS)  Moodle  Canvas   Blackboard  Virtual classrooms  Adobe Connect and Community   Zoom  Funding and the School Choice Movement  Money given from the school district per student to cyber charter school  Fight over taking money from public schools   My Action Research Project 

Some of What I Did  Sudoku Vocab Challenge Sudoku Vocab Challenge  Box Project  Small Business Project Small Business Project  Credit Card Assignment  Texting and Driving Project  Algebra 1 Final Project Algebra 1 Final Project  Rewrite common children songs to help remember mathematical formulas/algorithms  Quadratic formula, flip the sign, surface area and volume

Dan Meyer Inspiration  curriculum_makeover?language=en (12 mins) curriculum_makeover?language=en  Comments/reactions – post in class blogblog    Revising textbook problems  Creating a headache and giving the aspirin  Being less helpful

Workshop – Designing a lesson Dan Meyer style  Rewrite a lesson that you have either taught, been taught, designed, read about, etc.  Focus on the mathematical practices in the common core  How many can you include?  Would Dan Meyer like your lesson? Why or why not?

Present  Each group will present the lesson topic they chose and what they did to change the lesson around and why.  Feedback for each group?  Post on Weebly site – global community of learners 

Closure  Staying connected  Skyping for math class to communicate   3 new things you learned  2 questions you have  1 piece of advice