Reflecting Conversation for Shoe Graph Lesson

[presto_player id=20013] In this conversation, a teacher assesses her recent lesson, Shoe Graph. With a coach, she looks at evidence of student thinking and considers how specific instructional decisions impacted the mathematical goal of the lesson. In the Shoe Graph lesson, students determine categories to sort their shoes into. Then they create a graph using…

Working “Through” Math with English Language Learners

It is tough learning two new languages at once. In the case of English Language Learners (ELL), the two “languages” are often English and mathematics. Young children in classrooms where the language of instruction is not their dominant language can have challenges when it comes to learning math language, particularly positional words. These children are…

Three Bears Sort in a Dual Language Classroom

Wanda Ocasio of Inter-American School saw the opportunity to use a Three Bears sorting lesson to investigate her preschoolers’ understanding of sorting, as well as explore this Big Idea in the context of a multilingual environment. Ms. Ocasio teaches in a dual language class – 80 percent of her instruction is in Spanish and 20…