Chapter 8

Elicit and Use Evidence of Student Thinking

Reflect: 

After reading Chapter 8, please reflect on the questions below and post your response by Monday. Feel free to respond to any the questions provided or share something else that you intentionally did differently in regards to using student thinking within your lesson.

Please note: the prompts below are to help you reflect. There is not an expectation for you to respond to all {or even any} of the provided questions!

Respond:

Eliciting and Using Evidence of Student Thinking

Select a lesson that you will soon be teaching centered on a task that promotes reasoning and problem solving and has the potential to elicit multiple solution paths among your students.

• Establish clear mathematics learning goals for the lesson and consider what students might say, do or write as evidence of their thinking related to the goals. 
• Anticipate the solution strategies, both correct and incorrect, that students might use in working on the task, and create a monitoring chart for tracking student thinking. 
• Teach the lesson and reflect on the extent to which you elicited and made use of student thinking and the impact on student learning. 

Interact: 

On Tuesday, read your colleagues' reflections and respond to at least one other post by sharing a comment, insight, or interesting possibility by Friday.