{"id":71,"date":"2017-10-13T21:14:31","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T21:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/allisonmacrae\/?p=71"},"modified":"2018-04-19T16:12:27","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T16:12:27","slug":"thinking-is-so-important-is-your-thinking-visible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/allisonmacrae\/2017\/10\/13\/thinking-is-so-important-is-your-thinking-visible\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking is so important. Is your thinking visible?"},"content":{"rendered":"

SHOW YOUR WORK!<\/p>\n

A statement that has been irritating kids in math class, since the beginning\u00a0of time. I understand why it feels frustrating for students, they don’t understand the value in “showing their work.”<\/p>\n

A lot of learning happens at Upper Canada College (obviously, right?). Except, this year, it is ALSO the grade 8 teachers (amongst many others) learning, because we are in our MYP candidacy year. I am really inspired by the MYP, I love how it changes the conversation in the classroom; it encourages collaboration, changes the focus to concepts rather than content and most importantly, gets us to think more about the bigger picture when planning units.<\/p>\n

The other change it has brought is in assessment;\u00a0 communication matters as much as knowledge\/understanding. Now the kids are listening. But the conversation has shifted from show your work, to show me your thinking. I explained to the students that the reader needs to be able to read their work like a person reads an essay or listens to a piece of music. It has to flow, it has to be clear, there needs to be a beginning, a middle and an ending. Ask yourself, what story does your solution tell?<\/p>\n

I put up a few GIANT signs in the room that say “Thinking is so important, Is your thinking visible?”<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>I tell them I want to hear their thinking, I want to see their thinking and I want to read their\u00a0thinking. I want to know their ideas and how they got through the question. They seem inspired by this kind of change in conversation and are interested in improving their work.<\/p>\n

What if the greatest mathematicians never made their thinking visible? We would not have had the opportunity to benefit from the work and contributions that they made in their lifetime.<\/p>\n

Improving a students ability to communicate, it seems so obvious. I love how the MYP has shown me how critical this is to a students development. It could actually make an impact on their life and their success in relationships, work and their ability to make a positive impact on our world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SHOW YOUR WORK! A statement that has been irritating kids in math class, since the beginning\u00a0of time. I understand why it feels frustrating for students, they don’t understand the value in “showing their work.” A lot of learning happens at Upper Canada College (obviously, right?). Except, this year, it is ALSO the grade 8 teachers … Continue reading “Thinking is so important. Is your thinking visible?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-classroom-reflections","tag-myp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/allisonmacrae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/allisonmacrae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/allisonmacrae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/allisonmacrae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/allisonmacrae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/allisonmacrae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/allisonmacrae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/allisonmacrae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/allisonmacrae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/allisonmacrae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/allisonmacrae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}