Teaching the marked case & notes on Dave Hewitt 'thinking of a number' film

Here are the SmartBoard notes from today's class:

Sept. 30 notes on Dave Hewitt 'thinking of a number' film

Link to the BC Provincial Math Curriculum documents (IRPs)

http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/irp/irp_math.htm
Here you can find the IRPs ("integrated resource packages", ie: official curriculum documents) for the BC secondary school curriculum.

The new Common Curricular Framework (aka the WNCP, or Western and Northern Canadian Protocol) is given here, with a timeline for implementation and general notes. This is a huge departure from the earlier curriculum framework that teachers have been used to -- everyone is struggling to catch up with the new courses, names and content.

The Grade 8 and 9 math curriculum has also changed recently. Schools are just acquiring new textbooks and other learning resource materials.

Smart Board notes on fluency and understanding Sept. 21

Smart Board notes fluency and understanding

Free tickets, Sir Ken Robinson at the Chan Centre Wed. Sept. 30, noon - 1

Here is an event that we should all attend next Wed. Sept. 30 from noon - 1PM at the Chan Centre at UBC:

Sir Ken Robinson

TED/Terry Talk

<http://www.bioteach.ubc.ca/sir-ken-robinson-coming-to-ubc/>

Ken Robinson is a terrific speaker on education (he has been a professor of education in England), and this is a great opportunity to hear him!

So we will plan to run our class next Wednesday with a field trip to the Chan Centre from noon - 1PM to hear Sir Ken's talk, and then continuing on with our own class from 1 - 2 PM. That means that everyone should get to the Chan Centre today or tomorrow to pick up the one or two tickets you are entitled to as a student (bring your student card).

Ken Robinson has become famous for his 2006 TED talk in California about creativity and needed reforms to schooling: 

<http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html> I recommend that you watch this fascinating (and entertaining) video. Take some time to think about creativity, making mistakes, and the ways we are traditionally educated in mathematics. Do we, as math teachers, contribute to kids' creativity (including those kids who are not going to carry on to do math specialist degrees)?

Modelling in teacher education powerpoint

Susan'g powerpoint on modelling in teacher education

Informed consent form for Assignment 1

This is the form that teachers, students and students' parents/guardians must sign before you conduct your interviews for Assignment 1.

Informed consent/assent form pdf

BCAMT fall Pacific Northwest math education conference Oct. 22 - 24, Whistler

Here is the link to information about this great conference:BCAMT NW 09 math ed conference site

This is the BCAMT general website -- but it seems to need some updating!
http://www.bctf.ca/bcamt/

You may want to check out UBC student society (AMS) accomodation at Whistler, which is inexpensive and hostel-style:http://www.ubcwhistlerlodge.com/

E-textbooks, creative commons and wiki textbooks

Here is a link to a site promoting free creative commons wiki e-textbooks -- this one called Flexbook:

Flexbook information

I'll look for more information, different software, etc. and post it here.

Let's experiment with building our own e-book resource for secondary math topics -- and maybe the BCAMT members will be interested in picking up on the idea!

A starter list of lesson idea resource books

Here are the books I brought to show you in class. Many of these are math resource books for K-8 -- but you might still find them useful for kids in Grades 8 and 9, especially those who need help catching up on topics they didn't learn fully before high school. (There are often many kids who need to go back and relearn topics like fractions/decimals/percentages and beginning algebra.)

Secondary math resource books:

Brahier, Teaching Secondary and Middle School Mathematics

Elementary and middle school math resource books:

The late John Vanderwalle wrote highly-acclaimed and excellent resource books --
Any of the Vanderwalle books

Marian Small -- an excellent, jam-packed book from a notable Canadian educator
Marian Small, Making Math Meaningful

Social and environmental justice through middle school math from a Canadian alternative school teacher David Stocker, Math that matters

Brahier et al:
Heddens, Speer & Brahier, Today's Mathematics: Concepts, Methods, and Classroom Activities

Smith, Lambdin, LIndquist, Reys, Teaching Elementary Mathematics: A resource for field experiences

Musser et al, Mathematics for Elementary Teachers

Groups for Assignment 1

1) Jan, Rosemary, Chris
2) Erwin, Jill, Caleb
3) Mike, Sara, Alan
4) Paul S., Gigi, Alice
5) Candice, Maryam, Jenny (U Hill)
6) Paul C., Stan, Rong
7) Greg, Ralph, Vincent
8) Min-Chee, Elaine, Laura
9) Amelia, Samuel, Rory
10) Nathan, Enrique, Mina
11) Darshan, Prem

Customize your lesson plans

Lesson planning is a way of thinking through the lesson you are going to teach, to anticipate its course, support student learning and prepare yourself and the materials you'll need. When you are planning your own lessons, you will want to customize your lesson planning tools to suit your needs (and those of your sponsoring teachers and faculty associate).

You will probably need to do more elaborated written lesson plans in your earliest years of teaching. Once you have developed your own repertoire of successful lessons, you will likely abbreviate your written plans so that they are reminders and organizational structures to keep yourself on track.

Aside from the BOOPPPS format, you can find many other lesson planning aids online -- for example, there are many useful ones available at http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/fieldexperiences/nav02.cfm?nav02=25948&nav01=25859 . A google search will reveal hundreds of other options.

Choose one or two that seem almost right for you -- and then customize until you have a template that meets your particular needs. You will need to address some basic questions in any lesson plan:

•what are you trying to achieve? How will you know if it's working?

•what activities will you and the students undertake?

•how do you foresee the timing of the lesson working?

•what do you anticipate happening during the lesson?

•what materials will you need?

•how to start and finish the lesson?

BOOPPPS lesson planning template

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BOOPPPS lesson plan template:

1) BRIDGE: “hook” or introductory activity
2) Teaching OBJECTIVES: You own objectives as a teacher, to develop your skills, build a classroom community, address individual learners’ needs,
3) Learning OBJECTIVES: “SWBAT”  what you would like students to be able to do, know, demonstrate as a result of this lesson
4) PRETEST: Meeting your students where they are by assessing prior knowledge and skills
5) PARTICIPATORY Activity Ideas: Activities that promote learning
6) POST-TEST or assessment of student learning
7) SUMMARY or conclusion

Welcome to our class website!

This will be a central place where we can all post links, files and resources to be shared by everyone in the class. You may want to post to your own personal blog, and then notify the rest of the class about something new with a notice here. We will also establish links to everyone's personal blog at this site.

Feel free to explore the many mathematics education resources available online and through the library system, and share the good stuff here! You will be able to use this site even after the course is over, as part of your ongoing mathematics education community.