Thursday, December 10, 2015

Next...

Our next session is with Guest Speaker Peter Liljedahl. Check out his website here.

This is on January 15th (official ProD Day) at GISS. Please RVSP to Jess or Susan as soon as possible so we can plan this event!

Also, in between now and February 10th, decide what your focus or inquiry will be for this project.  

Day 1: December 9th, 2015

We had a super start to our inquiry project this year!

We started with an overview of the project: Overview  Presentation

Then Susan led us a through a great Number Talk and discussed different applications and reasons for bringing them into our math programs: Number Talks Presentation 

Next we broke into primary/intermediate, middle years and secondary groups to brainstorm ideas surrounding the competency we will be focusing on this year: 

“Students are able to communicate their mathematical thinking symbolically, concretely, and pictorially.” 

Communicating Competency K-12

Finally, we shared out and then turned our attention to our focus based on the competency that will guide each o us in a professional inquiry of practice: Our Process