Productive Struggle

 Reflection on Co-teaching in Maths

What will you take away from the co-teaching?

        How do we know it is half e.g. 9+9=18 - numbers are the same

        Think about the answers/anticipate student responses, to be mindful of misconceptions and what will         help direct and redirect students.

        Continue to pitch at level 4/5 and put in place just in time workshops.

What will you do differently next time?

Thinking from the beginning of the year:

• high expectations teaching
• acceleration vs remediation = planning, how can we make this less not more.
• key role of formative assessment - this leads to productive struggle!

Unproductive Struggle - weight lifting - too heavy or not heavy enough 

Spotter - assess the struggle, and have their back if it is too much of a struggle for them

             

Productive Struggle is better than unproductive and looped with feedback gives us results.

Discuss and model with students - How to work in a group, helping students to get results with their learning. 

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Something to remember is - 

Better than formative assessment is monitoring feedback and scaffolding - Dylan William

What I want to know is how to get the discussion going to help students develop understanding rather than just telling the answer or what to think!