TERC Staff Presenting at NCTM 2024
Check out the following sessions featuring TERC Staff and their work at the NCTM Annual Meeting & Exposition Sept 25-28, Chicago, IL. And visit booth #1201 in the exhibit hall for resources!
Wednesday, September 25th 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Visualizing Verbosity: The Utility Of Visualizations to Facilitate More Robust Math Argumentation Within Middle School Math Classrooms
Round Table Discussions #2
Location: McCormick Place Room: 504a
Description: We seek to connect researchers and practitioners who are interested in using visualizations of talk time, turn taking, content analysis, and sentiment analysis to understand the nature of math classroom discourse. We will share our automatic transcript analysis methods using R and the resulting visualizations of middle school math classroom discourse. We are interested in learning from other approaches and contexts including the use of AI for processing and generating visualizations of classroom discourse. This round table provides a platform for collaboration to share various visualizations and the tools to generate them, focusing on their usefulness for math teachers.
Speakers: Zachary Alstad, Teresa Lara-Meloy, Ken Rafanan
Thursday, September 26th 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Coach-Teacher Teams Transforming Classroom Practice Using Video and Reflections
Session
Location: McCormick Place Room: 502b
Description: There is brilliance in students’ communal engagement in math, which aligns with the learning traditions of several cultures, including African Americans. In this session, we do math together and discuss effective teaching practices for supporting inclusive classroom discussions and individual learning, particularly for those traditionally marginalized in math class. Participants will learn argumentation about fundamentals in coordinate geometry and the global origins of coordinate systems.
Speakers: Ken Rafanan, Jennifer Knudsen, Teresa Lara-Meloy, Harriette S Stevens (Mathematics Education Group, San Francisco)
Thursday, September 26th 1:00 PM – 2:15 PM
A Student Reflection Tool For Building and Sustaining Equitable Math Learning Communities
Workshop
Location: McCormick Place Room: N230b
Description: This session explores a student reflection tool for gathering students’ feedback about their experiences as math learners. We will investigate how this tool empowers students to take an active role in their own mathematical learning, nurturing their identities and offering opportunities to co-create their classroom environments. This tool also supports teachers in developing and sustaining equitable math learning communities that value and respect students’ varied ideas, competencies, and contributions.
Speakers: Annie Sussman, Marta Garcia (Mt Holyoke College Math Leadership Program)
Thursday, September 26th 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Noticing Middle Schoolers Mathematical Arguments During Class Through Video Enhanced Coaching
Session
Location: McCormick Place Room: S404 A
Description: How do math teachers and their coaches use classroom recording tools to plan, implement, and reflect on ways to engage and recognize the brilliance of middle schoolers’ conversations? Participants will learn how math teachers and coaches from five districts used the Visualize Teaching model of teacher-coach professional learning to build strong math argumentation communities. Participants will do math together, examine videos of the teacher-coach dyads, and leave with discussion guides and agendas.
Speakers: Teresa Lara-Meloy, Jennifer Knudsen, Ken Rafanan, Harriette S Stevens (Mathematics Education Group, San Francisco)
Friday, September 27th 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM
Questioning, Revising, Backtracking: Essentials of Brilliance in Mathematical Argument
Session
Location: McCormick Place Room: N288
Description: How do we listen to students’ mathematical explanations? Do we privilege students who express their ideas in ways that are closest to what we recognize as correct or whose fluency of speech is more comfortable for us? Or do we welcome questioning and revision, even if we think the “right” answer has already been expressed? Video examples from grades 1-4 illustrate how teachers support students, even those who make errors or express uncertainty, to contribute to collective learning.
Speakers: Susan Jo Russell, Deborah Schifter (EDC)
Friday, September 27th 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM
From Pockets of Excellence to Collective Efficacy for Ambitious Instruction
Session
Location: McCormick Place Room: S406A
Description: Learn how a district is empowering school leadership teams to create a culture of ambitious mathematics instruction. Each month, principal-teacher teams collectively experience a slice of mathematics, examine the beauty and joy of student thinking through work samples and videos, and take related leadership actions at their school sites.
Speakers: Dr. DeAnn Huinker (UW-Milwaukee), Dr. Melissa Hedges (Milwaukee Public Schools), Beth Schefelker (UW-Milwaukee), Rhode Marquez, Sara Cruz
Friday, September 27th 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Building Community in the Elementary Math Classroom: Parents, Co-Educators, and Teachers
Session
Location: McCormick Place Room: N229
Description: We will describe two professional development programs that strengthened professional relationships in the mathematics classroom and home/school connections. Our goal is to empower co-educators and parents to enhance students’ mathematics learning by building math knowledge for teaching. We provide structures and strategies to support team collaboration and develop genuine two-way communication with families. Included will be tools to promote planning and videos/activities for parents.
Speakers: Judy Storeygard, Lillian Pinet (Boston Public Schools), Charleen Heard (Boston Public Schools), Chenetha Lockett (Boston Public Schools)
Friday, September 27th 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Highlighting Children As Doers of Math: Centering Classroom Discussions on Student Brilliance
Session
Location: Hyatt Room: Regency A
Description: What better way to highlight student brilliance than to drive mathematical discussions using their own work? This instructional practice will affirm their identity and agency as mathematicians. Come and learn how a first-grade teacher used literature and student work to help make sense of adding multiple single-digit numbers. Leave with an understanding of how this scenario exemplifies the NCTM Mathematics Teaching Framework that can be used to develop powerful classroom discussions.
Speakers: Beth Schefelker (Milwaukee Public Schools), DeAnn Huinker (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)