This workshop will focus on current best practices and research in effective teaching strategies. Participants will learn together to deepen understanding of learning and assessment with TI technology as a tool. We will discuss approaches for making thinking visible, incorporating questioning strategies such as anticipating, pacing, monitoring and sequencing. Participants will:

• Explore tasks that allow students to engage in teaching strategies that support the Eight Mathematical Teaching Practices as outlined by NCTM’s Principles to Actions.

• Investigate different teaching strategies and TI technology tools to better incorporate the Mathematical Teaching Practices in their classrooms. By the end of this workshop, educators should be able to say, I can…

• Analyze how visual and open tasks contribute to implementing effective teaching practices in mathematics

• Identify teaching strategies that deepen my understanding of effective teaching practices for mathematics

• Use students’ responses to advance the understanding of the class as a whole.

Day 1 Participants will engage in activities to:

• Identify teaching strategies that support the Mathematics Teaching Practices.

• Emphasize NCTM’s Five Practices for Orchestrating Productive Math Discussions.

• Purposefully consider how they would integrate tasks into their own classroom by looking at the variety of planning and instructional decisions needed before, during and after the lesson.