Assess Success: Exploring Authentic Assessment in the Mathematics Classroom

Belonging and Universal Supports:  Available all the time for everybody Reduce the need to fit in Reduce student and teacher stress Calmer classrooms Voice and Choice Voice: sharing in learning design Choice: choosing the option that works best What are examples of choice that... Leads to engagement and learning? Does not lead to student engagement and learning?  Brainstorming: Choices that lead (or don't) to student engagement and learning Motivation Internalized Motivation: Autonomy: I can independently make a meaningful decision to reach a goal.  How?  Independent work time Encourage effort Opportunity to talk to each other while you listen Hints instead of how-to's Impact Increased effort, persistence, creative thinking Mastery: I believe that my gorth is more important than the reward/grade. How?  Learning targets with self-reflection "Goldilocks" tasks (not too hard and not too easy) - zone of proximal development Multiple entry points Feedback that increa...

Notes Outline Recap from last SEL Pro-D:  Who are we as educators? Brain/Body State Check-in Wellness Inventory Negativity Bias Who are our students?  Stress backpacks Working memory -- sticky notes sizes (stress affects) Fight, flight, or freeze behaviours Fight: questioning/arguing, bargaining, "When are we ever going to use this in real life?", sarcastic non-answers, groaning/noise-making Flight: distracting others, derailing conversations, working on other homework rather than the task at hand, bathroom/water breaks, not coming to school, daydreaming Freeze: completely shut down/disengaged, not opening computer (didn't ask for one if don't have one), "I don't know", stuttering, not pulling out materials needed, staring, crying, hiding The Anxious Generation : How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Jonathan Haidt) Our children are over-protected in the real world and under-protected in the virtual world.  Has lot...