1. Strategies to make Groupwork WORK!
Teaching Middle School is like Herding Cats:
Sit at tables with four to six people if possible!
Strategies to make Groupwork WORK!

3. Earned a BA in math from Seattle Pacific University
Completed my National Boards in 2017
Began my Masters in Learning Sciences and Human Development at UW
This is my 7th year teaching in Seattle Public Schools
I’ve taught
6th and 7th grade
Algebra 1
6th and 8th grade EMP

4. Complex Instruction Principles
Group Roles
Addressing Status in the Classroom
Increasing Participation and Accountability
Agenda Brief overview of strategies, but you will have a list of resources to go home with!

5. Principles of Complex Instruction
Safe Learning Community
Multiple-Ability Curriculum
Instructional Strategies
Status and Accountability
Principles of Complex Instruction
Cohen, Lotan, Sapon-Shevin, Jilk

6. Boaler, J. (2015). youcubed. Retrieved September 29, 2019, from https://www.youcubed.org/.

7. Group Roles : Why and How
Resource Manager
Team Captain
Recorder/
Reporter
Facilitator
Featherstone, H. (2011). Smarter together! Collaboration and Equity in the Elementary Math Classroom. Reston, VA: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.

11. Who is the smartest at math?
Two Minutes Private Think Time
Who is the smartest at math?
Jilk, Griffin, O’Connell

12. We need students who are….
Investigators
Creative
Detailed
Builders
Collaborators
Visual
Curious
Persistent
Questioners
Risk Takers
We need students who are….

13. Group Roles Resource Manager: Collect and care for the group supplies
Team Captain: Ensure everyone is participating and sharing ideas
Facilitator: Get your group off to a quick start by reading the task card out loud
Recorder/Reporter: Make sure everyone at your table can present for your group
Whoever travelled the furthest to be here
Whoever travelled the shortest distance to be here
Whoever is wearing the brightest color
Whoever has taught for the longest amount of time

19. Status Multiple Abilities Treatment Assign Competency
Teachers have ENORMOUS power

20. Participation Quiz

22. Shuffle Quiz

25. “But there are multiple answers aren’t there?”

26. Huddle

27. The Science of Learning and the Art of Teaching B.F. Skinner, 1954
“…filling in his workbook, is behaving primarily to escape from the threat of a series of minor aversive events- the teacher’s displeasure, the criticism or ridicule of his classmates, an ignominious show in competition, low marks….” “…the figures and symbols of mathematics have become standard emotional stimuli. The glimpse of a column of figures, not to say an algebraic symbol of an integral sign, is likely to set off- not mathematical behavior- but a reaction of anxiety, guilt, or fear.”
Skinner, B. F. (1954). The Science of Learning and the Art of Teaching. S.l.: s.n.

32. Thank you! Questions or Comments for me? Want more PD?
Or stay to chat!
Want more PD?
Jess Griffin and Karen O’Connell
To find a Complex Instruction training for next summer!
Check the NWMC website for documents from this presentation
Check out the resources on the back of the handout.
There are some awesome books out there!
Thank you!