Purpose

This professional learning provides teachers with an opportunity to develop skills in planning for and enacting rich mathematics conversations in classrooms.

Who should participate?

K-8 teachers and leaders

Mode of delivery

Online learning through Microsoft teams

Content

Participating in this course will help you to:

• analyse the relationship between the curriculum content strands and the four proficiency strands in the Mathematics syllabus.
• investigate how reasoning and quality, intentional talk are closely linked.
• explore the development of mathematics reasoning through quality questioning.
• develop knowledge of planning success criteria with a clear purpose around three areas: content, language and social objectives.
• explore domain specific mathematical vocabulary and how visual tools can be used to support students in using tier 2 and 3 vocabulary.
• explore how inclusion of concrete, pictorial and abstract representations support student learning.
• examine the language expectations for students to be able to respond to common classroom prompts such as, 'explain your answer'.