How Do I Make Building Thinking Classrooms Lessons? | Math PD | WSMC 2023

The presentation, "Lesson Planning in a Thinking Classroom," was given at the 2023 West Suburban Math Conference. The West Chicago Math Division has worked hard to make Peter Liljedahl's Building Thinking Classrooms Model work. Here we share a number of tips on creating lessons easily from previous lessons through having participants try the lessons themselves.

00:10 Introductions
00:58 Background on using Building Thinking Classrooms
01:50 Initial reactions from staff and students
06:10 Aaron forgetting to close the Youtube window
06:27 Key of Building Thinking Classrooms and why you have all you need already
08:34 Algebra 1 Activity
11:48 Breaking down the Algebra 1 Activity
15:45 Where the activity can go
17:12 First Geometry activity - how to make graphic intensive problems work
21:50 Second Geometry activity - how to make Desmos activities work at the whiteboards
25:55 Algebra 2 - turning traditional lessons into Thinking activities easily
29:21 What do you do about student notes?
30:42 Challenges we've faced and how we met them
38:04 Resources for your classroom (including over 30 lessons from the West Chicago Math Division - link in presentation below)


Link to Presentation (https://bit.ly/WeGoWSMC-BTC) has links to everything you see.
Link to Spreadsheet of Lessons at WCCHS so far: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
Video in the introduction:    • D94 Departments In Focus - Building T...  



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