Those who have been following my Smart Bansho blog will know that my colleague and I have been experimenting with a "new" way to teach math this year, using lessons on the Smart Board. One thing I've been finding quite challenging personally is how to effectively capture the collective learning of the class at the end of a lesson.
Sometimes, we spend so long working on a problem or a challenge that there is little time at the end of the period to encapsulate all the little "a-ha" moments students have had throughout a learning activity. The nice thing about having such a large IWB in my classroom is that I can show multiple solutions or approaches to a problem, and still have space left to record general observations from the collective.
Today we represented 3-digit numbers in as many ways as we could. Some students used multiple base-ten block representations, while others used money to show the number. A few also came up with some interesting analogies.
At the end of the lesson, after we had shared some students' solutions, I took a moment to record "What we learned" on the right hand side of the board, to summarize the learning. I left the board up during lunch, so that students could reflect on and continue to discuss with peers their learning as they ate. :-)
Sometimes, we spend so long working on a problem or a challenge that there is little time at the end of the period to encapsulate all the little "a-ha" moments students have had throughout a learning activity. The nice thing about having such a large IWB in my classroom is that I can show multiple solutions or approaches to a problem, and still have space left to record general observations from the collective.
Today we represented 3-digit numbers in as many ways as we could. Some students used multiple base-ten block representations, while others used money to show the number. A few also came up with some interesting analogies.
At the end of the lesson, after we had shared some students' solutions, I took a moment to record "What we learned" on the right hand side of the board, to summarize the learning. I left the board up during lunch, so that students could reflect on and continue to discuss with peers their learning as they ate. :-)
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