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Next year, grade 9 math will be destreamed. Our school is in the planning phases right now. A thread.
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Our principal reached out to our staff to see if anyone would be interested in learning about destreaming. We got a decent response from staff (especially with our increased workloads at this time). Ts from many different subject areas.
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Today was our first meet as a big group. We started with a short video from Jason To about the history of streaming. Then we got the Jamboard to get thoughts about “excited about” and “worried about”.
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After some discussion, I led an activity that I’ve used in my class. My idea was to provide a grade 9 math activity as it directly relates to next year, and I figured we’d get a lot of different perspectives on what it’s like to do math.
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I gave a short intro then visibly randomized everyone into different breakout rooms in groups of 3. They worked on a common Jamboard, with the expectations that everyone in the group had to understand everything their group wrote/put down.
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I used wording in some of the questions that was purposely ambiguous to create discussion amongst each group (with each other and in comparison to other groups).
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Groups worked for about 25 minutes, and I popped into each group at least once to give feedback, check understanding, and ask clarification questions. I modeled a #ThinkingClassroom activity without referencing this name directly.
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At the end, we came back together and discussed what it felt like to do this as a group. Lots of feelings came through:
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="➡️" title="Pfeil nach rechts" aria-label="Emoji: Pfeil nach rechts">Felt comfortable with their peers
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="➡️" title="Pfeil nach rechts" aria-label="Emoji: Pfeil nach rechts">Uncertain (having not done math in a long time) but relieved to discuss with others
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Thoughts that I have:
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="➡️" title="Pfeil nach rechts" aria-label="Emoji: Pfeil nach rechts">I chose a curricular task. What if I had chosen a non-curricular task, something with more entry points for different people?
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