Is the Course for Individuals or Teams?

Is the Course for Individuals or Teams? This course can be completed individually or as a team. Throughout the course, you will need a classroom where you can try out what you learn and study the resulting student journals. We strongly recommend, whether you are...

Why Reflective Journals?

This course for K-12 educators explores the power of student reflective journals in building students’ mathematical knowledge and practices. HOURS: 5 hours/week MATERIALS: Textbook...

1.1 – How Journals Help Students

1.1 – How Journals Help StudentsReflective journals provide a place for students to work out and revise their thinking about a problem, record classmates’ ideas that provided new insights, summarize the lesson and reflect, at the end of each lesson, on how their...

1.2 – Elements of a Journal Entry

1.2 – Elements of a Journal Entry A Japanese textbook example shows key elements of a journal entry, which are built gradually, beginning in kindergarten. The key elements in a journal entry are: Date Problem: a verbatim copy of the problem to be solved during...

1.3 – How Journals Help Teachers

1.3 – How Journals Help TeachersJournals help teachers understand and respond to student thinking and identify gaps in their instruction. Teachers typically begin each TTP lesson by reading aloud several students’ journal reflections from the prior lesson. These...
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