- Year 2024
- NSF Noyce Award # 1758500
- First Name Dalton
- Last Name Marsh
- Institution California State University, San Bernardino
- Role/Position Project Personnel
- Proposal Type Workshop
- Workshop Category Track 1: Scholarships and Stipends
- Workshop Disciplines Audience Mathematics, STEM Education (general)
- Target Audience Co-PIs, Noyce Master Teachers, Noyce Teaching Fellows, Other Faculty/Staff, Project PIs, Undergraduate and/or Graduate Noyce Scholars
- Topics STEM content and/or convergent skills development, Supporting New Teachers/Induction
- Additional Presenter(s)
Eri Osuna, Luis Tapia
Goals
Participants will learn the 5 Practices for Orchestrating Class Discussion, understand their purpose, and see how they can be implemented.
Evidence
The session integrates ideas from the books 5 Practices for Orchestrating Productive Mathematics Discussions (Smith & Stein, 2011) and 5 Practices for Orchestrating Task-Based Discussions in Science (Cartier et al., 2013) as well as the NCTM Mathematics Teacher article “Filling Bottles with Water” by Trena Wilkerson.
Proposal
In the session we will demonstrate how we introduce the 5 Practices for Orchestrating Productive Class Discussions to our scholars and mentors. Participants will engage in a hands-on lesson modeling the rate of change of the height of water in a container as it is being filled up. Groups are given different containers to investigate how the height of the water changes as it is being added to the container. This relationship is then graphed. The whole group discussion focuses on describing the rate of change in their graphs, how it relates to their container, and comparing and contrasting how this works for different containers. We end by debriefing how the 5 Practices were used in the lesson: how the lesson plan incorporated anticipated student ideas and challenges, what the teacher was focusing on when monitoring the groups, which groups were selected to share, why the sharing was sequenced in the order that it was, and how the different groups’ results were connected. This session is suitable for math or science; the 5 Practices are applicable in both subjects and the modeling activity involves common skills like measuring, recording data, graphing, and interpreting graphs.
