Designing Effective Groupwork in Mathematics

Participants learn the principles and practices of Complex Instruction, an effective group-based pedagogy grounded in research. Participants gain tools and strategies to ensure that ALL students, regardless of their ethnic, language, socio-economic, and/or achievement backgrounds, have equal-status participation in small groups and are held accountable for learning rigorous mathematics.

Participants will:

• Consider the impact of teachers’ beliefs as they shape students’ beliefs about math, learning, and participation, and reframe issues of smartness in school mathematics.
• Learn strategies to promote equal-status participation within small groups.
• Begin to examine how to assess students’ mathematical understanding in the context of cooperative group work.
• Identify/develop group-worthy tasks from their curricular materials.
• Create and present a lesson which includes a group-worthy task.

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