How I’m Making Student Learning Visible in My Math Classroom
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One of the things I’ve found about teaching Math is that it helps to have a regular, real-time sense of student learning. For ALL of my students.
As we take on new skills (or scaffold off older ones), what is their current proficiency level? Do they really understand a concept, or are they just keeping their head down and bluffing, hoping to evade detection? Who are we leaving behind?
For years, teachers have used whiteboards around the classroom to solve this problem. In my last teaching context, I was blessed with enough whiteboard space (on three walls and two rolling whiteboards) to break students into groups and have them tackle problems together. I could see the status of their learning in real time and in 360 degrees.
The collaboration and support from peers at these whiteboard stations was excellent, but it left me slightly less clear on the actual proficiency demonstrated by individual students. Is Mark actually able to solve for x, or is he leaning heavily on his partners?
Another way that teachers have traditionally tackled the visibility problem in Math class is with individual whiteboards, and I’ve tried this method as well. Students each have a…
