Adult Learners
Series: Hear from the Experts
Spatial Reasoning with Jan de Lange
March 18, 2016
Children, even at a very young age, have an incredible understanding of spatial relationships. Jan de Lange brings up the idea that elementary school classrooms might consider starting their math curriculum with spatial reasoning. Ideas such as numbers and counting could be added later to quantify this concept that children naturally understand so well.
- Topic: Spatial Relationships
- Age/Grade Level: Adult Learners, Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
- Tags Jan de Lange
Series: Hear from the Experts March 13, 2016
Discussions that Advance Mathematical Learning with Diane Briars
Summing up the point of the day's lesson with the whole class is an extremely important, yet often neglected part of any math lesson.
- Age/Grade Level: Adult Learners, Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
- Tags Diane Briars, Planning
Series: Hear from the Experts November 19, 2015
Rich Math Tasks with Diane Briars
Diane Briars describes math tasks as "the vehicles for mathematical learning." It is important that tasks require reasoning and problem solving strategies.
- Age/Grade Level: Adult Learners, Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
- Tags Problem Solving, Diane Briars
Series: Hear from the Experts November 18, 2015
Selecting Common Core Instructional Materials with Diane Briars
What is the quality of the instructional activities that students will be engaged with everyday? Diane Briars explores this question.
- Age/Grade Level: Adult Learners, Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
- Tags Common Core, CCSS, Diane Briars
Series: Hear from the Experts November 16, 2015
Learning Goals in the Common Core with Diane Briars
Diane Briars differentiates between the learning goals of a particular lesson and the Common Core State Standards associated with it.
- Age/Grade Level: Adult Learners, Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
- Tags Common Core, CCSS, Diane Briars, Planning
Series: Hear from the Experts May 20, 2015
Developmentally Appropriate Practice Possible within Common Core
In this video from NAEYC (National Association for the Education of Young Children), Executive Director Rhian Evans Allvin describes their new white paper about developmentally appropriate practice within Common Core State Standards.
- Age/Grade Level: Adult Learners
- Tags Common Core, CCSS, NAEYC
Series: Hear from the Experts January 15, 2015
Mathematical Reasoning Left Out of Classrooms
Phil Daro compares a math classroom in the United States with one in Japan.
- Age/Grade Level: Adult Learners
- Tags Phil Daro
Series: Hear from the Experts October 31, 2014
Got Grit? Angela Lee Duckworth on Educational Perseverance
In this TED Talk, you’ll hear from Angela Lee Duckworth, the psychologist who coined the term "grit." She discusses her research and offers some brief ideas on how to motivate kids to be gritty.
- Age/Grade Level: Adult Learners, Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
- Tags Correction, Grit
Series: Hear from the Experts October 15, 2014
Making Sense of Mathematics
When teaching students math, we often do so in a way that doesn't help them make sense of the subject. We teach the steps to take to get an answer, rather helping them understand why…
- Age/Grade Level: Adult Learners
- Tags Phil Daro, Common Core, CCSS
Series: Hear from the Experts October 15, 2014
Learning Progressions in Math Go in Different Directions
While many believe that students learn math on a straight-forward, linear path, they actually pull ideas from many different sources when completing a problem. The challenge for the teacher, then, is to take these students,…
- Age/Grade Level: Adult Learners
- Tags Phil Daro, Common Core, CCSS
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