Teaching That "Counts"

In this first episode, we have a round table discussion with teachers and administrators as we dive into the introductory chapter of Building Thinking Classroom in Mathematics by Peter Liljedahl.  We talk surprises, expectations, and thoughts for implementation in high school math classes.  Join us as we embark on a "book study" of Peter's book that is increasing in popularity among the mathematics teacher community.

We continue our round table discussion with a deep dive into the first three chapters in Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics by Peter Liljedahl.  We talk about using thinking tasks, visibly random student groups, and vertical non-permanent surfaces.  Join me and a wonderful group of teachers and ed techs as we discuss specifics on implementation of these three practices into secondary math classes. 

This is the third part of our series on discussing the book "Building Thinking Classroom in Mathematics" by Peter Liljedahl.  We discuss what type of questions that we answer in a thinking classroom and how we organize the learning space.  

In this episode, I get to chat with one of our district math teachers, Enoe Ochoa.  Enoe is THE high school math teacher at our district charter school.  This year, she has implemented many of the strategies described in Building Thinking Classrooms in mathematics.  We discuss how the change has impacted her classroom culture, student confidence, and student performance.  Join us for this great one-on-one conversation focused on her experience...

We continue our round-table discussion of the book Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics by Peter Liljedahl.  Our focus this episode is on how, where and when we give tasks to students.  We also talk about how homework is dealt with in a thinking classroom.  Join us as we share classroom experiences that we have had in implementing many of the practices thus far.

We  continue our round-table discussion of the book Building Thinking  Classrooms in Mathematics by Peter Liljedahl.  Our focus this episode is on fostering student autonomy and how we give hints and extensions in a thinking classroom.  Join us as we share more classroom experiences from implementing the practices in previous chapters and thoughts about future implementation.

Join our panel of teachers as we discuss implementation and thoughts about chapters 10 and 11 of Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics by Peter Liljedahl.  In this episode we discuss how we consolidate the learning in a thinking classroom. Spoiler alert: we consolidate from the bottom!  We discuss how this looks in our classes and ways we can support student learning using three different consolidation techniques...

Join our discussion on Peter Liljedahl's powerful book, Building Thinking Classroom in Mathematics. This episode, I am joined by a panel of five awesome high school math teachers as we have a conversation about chapters 12 and 13. We dive deep in how we evaluate students using rubrics in competencies, in this case we talk the standards for mathematical practices. We also discuss how we begin to have students self-evaluate their learning...

We have made it to the end of our book study and deep dive into Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics by Peter Liljedahl. Our round-table conversation focuses on how we grade and the tools that help us do so in a thinking classroom. We follow that up with a wrap-up discussion of the book, talk about the two types of toolkits that are highlighted in chapter 15 and, lastly, describe what is next as we look to the beginning of next school year and implementing the 14 practices...

In this episode, I am joined by one of our district's junior high resource teachers, Sydnee Merchant. Sydnee is a special education teacher that teaches 7th and 8th grade students with mild or moderate learning disabilities. She has been using the Building Thinking Classrooms framework this school year with great success...