1. SWVA Math Specialist – Teacher Leaders Mini-Conference
Leadership and Coaching for Math Teacher Leaders
March 21, 2016
Session 1C
Dr. Betti Kreye, VT
Dr. Jean Mistele, RU

2. What if you thought some people are just born “smart”?
How does this idea affect you if you are considered one of the ‘smart’ ones?
How does this idea affect you if you are not considered one of the ‘not so smart’ ones?
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3. What if you thought ‘smart’ was something you could become?
How does this idea affect you when you’re successful?
How does this idea affect you when you’re not so successful?
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4. Mindset

5. What percentage of students believe that intelligence is fixed?
Grade
Fixed Mindset
Growth Mindset K
n/a
100% 1
10%
90% 2
18%
82% 3
42%
58%
Source: Mindsets in the Classroom (Ricci)

6. Mindset Phrase Sort Work with a partner to complete the handout
Mindset Phrase Sort Work with a partner to complete the handout. Discussion share-out. Handout: What You Can Train Your Students to Say

7. Videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyAde4nIIm8
Carol Dweck The Power of Yet
The Story of Austin’s Butterfly
Growth Mindset for Students – Episode 1 and 2

8. Productive Struggle NCTM Principles to Action pages 48 – 53
Meaning of “productive struggle”
Importance of “productive” struggle
Chart page 49:
Expectations of students
Teacher actions
Classroom indicators of success
Working with a partner, read through all three columns and identify any of the Process Goals that appear.
Page 10 Math Teaching Practices – tie to Process Goals

9. Characteristics of Students Struggling in Math
Learned helplessness
Passive learning
Memory difficulties
Attention difficulties
Cognitive/metacognitive thinking deficits*
Processing deficits*
Low level of academic achievement
Math anxiety

10. Effective Teaching Strategies for Struggling Learners
Teaching Strategy
Example
Link new concepts to prior knowledge
Build integer arithmetic rules from those of whole numbers
Model using multiple representations
Use the concrete pictorial
symbolic model for concepts
Teach strategies
Only after building conceptual understanding teach mnemonics
Practice multisensory cuing
Engage students using visual, auditory, kinesthetic activities

11. Effective Teaching Strategies for Struggling Learners
Teaching Strategy
Example
Provide instructive feedback, positive reinforcement
Feedback to clarify understandings, ways to improve, reinforces successful behaviors
Provide students many opportunities to respond
Provide varied ways to respond, show understandings
Make concepts meaningful and relevant
Incorporate students’ interests, use applications from their current lives

12. Kinds of Student Struggle (Warshauer, 2015)

13. Teacher Response Summary (2015)

14. Group Activity
Participants will be divided into two groups – teachers of grades K-5 and Title teachers, and teachers of grades 6 – high school.
Each group will be provided with an activity. After completing this activity individually, turn to a partner within the group and discuss the following:
your solution strategy
returning to slide #12 on stages of student struggle, create questions that you could use to support struggling students at each level without decreasing the cognitive demand of the task while focusing on the growth mindset.

16. Whole Group Summary and Share-Out
What did you learn about productive struggle through the group activities?

17. Discussion Prompt As a mathematics teacher leader within a building, without any release time from your classroom obligations, how might you be able to assist teachers within your building to implement effective instructional changes?

18. Take - Away
Using one of the provided index cards, please record one new idea that you will take away from this session.

19. Dr. Betti Kreye Dr. Jean Mistele bkreye@vt.edu jmistele@radford.edu