Learning Partner Conversation: 

1. Challenge students with a new topic prior to mini lesson.

1. • Driving Question Board/Getting students to ask questions in an explicit way or allocate place in notebook

   • Co-teach to see how it can be  how to implemented

2. Talked about conferences – work with students on self content rubrics before filling out the conference form.

3. Continues to give quizzes weekly and contact parents

4. Encouraging student own learning. Every week each student will create and give Kahoot to class. Meet with me before for support or to make sure problems are complex and relevant.

Reflection:  (need prompts?)

Explicit Examples in Student Work (when applicable):

Learning Partner Conversation: 

Preparation for conferences:

• Student led conference
• Content rubric :
  • Dedicate a lesson or more to prepare the rubrics (  they could complete part of it at home)
  • Choose 5 main I can standards
  • Add notebook organization category to rubric
  • Meet each student to go over the notes and give feedback when necessary
  • Work on conference form after reflecting upon performance in class
  • By they time the students will work on their conferences forms, they should have at least two assessment reflection that they can be used to check growth or what skills needs to be improved.

Tip : I should prepare a file with all necessary documents ( including learning evidences )for each  student

Reflection:  (need prompts?)

Explicit Examples in Student Work (when applicable):

Learning Partner Conversation:

1) I looked through students work assessments and noticed that they  are getting confused while filling out the form ( see example # 1) , giving the  same explanations on two different rubrics. Therefore we have decided that the form needs to be revised ( see attached file ver1.2 )

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We will categorizes different type of errors, instead of verbal explanation, such as :

• Careless

• Computational

• Conceptual

• Precision

Also discussed, that it would be useful to :

• Show student models of the explanation part

• Make sure corrections are complete

• Highlight correction in original

2) On a different matter:

• post the objectives for each lesson / topics in addition to agenda

Reflection:  (need prompts?)

Explicit Examples in Student Work (when applicable):

Repetitive explanation

Good example of reflection

Learning Partner Conversation:

Trying to set a goal for this year, I had an idea to integrate math with other subjects. Make it as a part of everyday life might help to accessible to students and increase their engagement level. presenting an ideas such as integrating math while students are planning and building Sukkah, allowing an opportunity to talk about calculating material, making measurements, units conversions,measuring areas, volume etc. Another idea was to collect data of our school cross country runners during their practices and meets. Students can analyze it by using  graphs, charts, lists, tables etc. and develop their mathematical reasoning.

During the meeting my partner raised the following question: ” How does this focus/goal improve your own teaching practice ? ” It was a great question that lead us to think of a different direction. 

Making a written verbal self reflection in math once receiving the quiz/test, could be a great tool for learning, handle misconceptions and thinking growth as opposed to making only mathematical corrections. Students will be asked to explain in writing the reason for using a certain operation/strategy, determine which is the right one and make the necessary math corrections. Helping the students to arrange their written reflection, they will use a table ( see attached) . An additional requirement would be to set a goal after each quiz/test, focusing on one topic in order to make an improvement, such as  additional practice at home, meeting with the teacher, working during Hafsakah or anything the student believe it might be helpful. 

Once submitting the test reflection, setting up and accomplished the goal the student will be awarded  an additional 10% to his grade.

It might be effective to compare between each reflection and analyze whether the student made an improvement on specific topic, or has repetitive errors. A google sheet that summarizes all grades by topic might be helpful and also can foster the student to create graphs of charts to analyze the data. 

Hopefully I will start a pilot by the end of the week.

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Reflection:  (need prompts?)

We would like to know if it will not be complicated for the students to fill out the form.

Explicit Examples in Student Work (when applicable):