1. Increasing your Opportunities to Respond
OTRs in the math classroom
Kelly Komisin

2. Norms Honor time together
Note to self: double check with the close reading document

3. Outcomes and Agenda….and Norms
Learn the who, what, when, why and how of OTRs
How to deliberately plan OTRs into your lessons
Data collection tools for OTRs
Agenda:
Outcomes, agenda, and norms
Presentation of OTRs
Practice with OTRs
Wrap-up
White boards and markers!! Guided notes!!! Cards? T/F, y/n,

4. About Kelly Neuroscience Common Core Math PBIS 5 years B.S. Math
M.S. Psychology

5. “Whoever does the talking, does the learning”
Teacher:
Gives prompt
Students:
Respond
Gives feedback
“Whoever does the talking, does the learning”
Check this quote and site it

6. Let’s count the OTRs in this famous teaching clip
What are OTRs?
“Teacher-directed opportunities to respond that occasion student responses.” MacSuga-Gage
“An instructional question, statement, or gesture made by the teacher that seeks a student response. “ (Reinke, Herman, Sprick 2011, p. 91)
Let’s count the OTRs in this famous teaching clip

7. What are CARs? CAR = Correct Academic Responses
OTRs are ineffective if you are not eliciting and supporting Correct Academic Responses
OTR
Verbal or Non-verbal Response
Positive or Corrective Feedback
How would you feel if you are getting mostly correct answers?
How would you feel if you were getting everything wrong? --leads to learned helplessness, fixed mindset
How would you feel if you never got called on?
How would you feel if you are getting everything correct?

8. Why OTRs: Neuroscience
Get those neurological pathways correct the first time!
Dispersed rehearsal (DOK 1, 2) v.s Depth of processing (DOK 3)
Making meaning and going deeper requires automaticity of some knowledge, procedures, and concepts.
Link to CARs again--
Make the link to efficacy--growth mindset/
Safe, positive, nurturing environment leads to openness, as opposed to closed--approach/avoidance

9. Why OTRs: Behavior Research
Engagement: Inverse relationship between OTRs and discipline problems
Human Motivation Model
Relationships
Competence
Autonomy

10. Why OTRs: Feedback Receive and Give Feedback From your students:
-Random Sampling (popsicle sticks)
-Choral responses
To your students
-Affirmation/Praise
-Corrective Feedback

11. When to use them
During focused instruction and guided instruction of a new topic and during review (bellwork, going over homework) limit to min)
Review material that has a goal of automaticity/fluency (OTR: write down three things that you want your students to have with automaticity)
New material: introducing a new concept

12. How to use them effectively:
Students need a safe, positive, predictable, consistent, and nurturing environment for learning
*Is your classroom a safe place for students to get the wrong answer?
*How do you foster a growth mindset to keep them approaching math instead of avoiding it?
Approach or Avoidance?

13. Verbal Written Gestural/Physical Teacher to Class
Teacher to Individuals
Teacher-directed student to student
Teacher-directed student to self
Verbal
Choral
Songs
Secret words
Signal Words
No-options questioning-popsicle sticks
Continuous ‘what’s next’ for procedural practice
Kagan Strategies, ie.,Think, Pair, Share
Turn and Talk
Roles
Quick responses
Encouragement
Sentence frames for arguing
Sentence frames for vocab
Encouragement (pat on the back)
PVC phone
Written
Anticipatory T/F
Agree/disagree
Anticipatory T/F agree/disagree
List 5 ___
Explain a procedure
Draw a model
Pairs check
Guided Notes
Gestural/Physical
Thumbs up/down
Fist to Five
Point to ___
Get up and move
Arm graphing
*Don’t forget about remote responders!

14. How to Increase them: Planning Sheet
Work in pairs to plan a mini- lesson (can be a review of “homework”)

15. Taking OTR/CAR data
OTR Data Sheet--a 10 minute observation form

16. Practice Square your Pairs (groups of 4)
Pair A: 1 will be Teacher, other Observer
Pair B: both will be Students
Then switch.
(10 min per Lesson)

17. Wrap-Up
What are your big take-aways?
(30 seconds per person)

18. Fidelity to Outcomes How did we do?
Learn the who, what, when, why and how of OTRs
How to deliberately plan OTRs into your lessons
Data collection tools for OTRs
White boards and markers!! Guided notes!!! Cards? T/F, y/n,