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How to support productive struggle? 

Recognizing the Importance of effort as students work to make sense of new ideas
  • Teacher explicitly encourages students to persevere.
  • Teacher asks students to explain and justify how they solved a task.  Teacher values the quality of the explanation as much as the final solution.
allowing students to struggle with guidance without showing and telling procedure or ANSWER
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  • Teacher finds ways to support students without removing all of the challenges.
  • Teacher initiates a classroom discussion where students provide suggestions on next steps in solving a problem.
providing time for students to explore deeply the mathematical ideas
​Teacher provides wait time.
  • “Can you put your hands down and give everyone a minute to think?”
  • “Take your time to think…”
  • “Think in your head silently about this…”
  • “Let’s take some time to think…”
asking questions with the PURPOSE of advanced student thinking
  • Teacher asks students to write down what they know about a problem and what they wish they knew because it would help them solve the problem.
  • Teacher asks students questions that scaffold students’ thinking without stepping in to do the work for them.
asking question to help students better understand the task
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  • “I don’t know what to do next.”
  • Students ask questions related to the source.
  • Students help one another without telling their classmates what the answer is or how to solve the problem.
providing an environment where students respect and support each other with ideas
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  • Talk between teacher and students and among students is uniformly respectful, with little to no intervention needed by the teacher to correct disrespectful talk among students.
  • Students discuss and analyze incomplete and/or wrong answers respectfully and productively.
  • Home
  • Meet Our STAFF
  • Families
  • Attendance
  • Teachers
    • Kindergarten 4 yrs >
      • Ms. Oulahan
      • Ms. Seifert
    • Kindergarten 5 yrs >
      • Mrs Guager & Ms. Deleon
      • Ms. Zamora & Ms. A. Marin
    • 1st Grade >
      • Ms. Aviles & Ms. Velazquez
      • Ms. Thao-Yang
    • 2nd Grade >
      • Ms. Kegley
      • Ms. Pallo & Mr. Montilla
    • 3rd Grade >
      • Mr. Corona &Ms. E. Marin
      • Ms. Krueger
    • 4th Grade >
      • Ms. Danes
      • Ms. Ricardo
    • 5th Grade >
      • Ms. Reyes
      • Ms. Herber
    • 6th Grade >
      • Mr. Perez
      • Ms.
    • 7th Grade >
      • Mr. Schallock
      • Ms. Manzo
    • 8th Grade >
      • Mr. L. Lopez
      • Ms. Sturycz
    • ESL >
      • Ms. E. Colon & Ms. Steffes
    • Special Education >
      • Ms. Alfonzo
      • Ms. Gates & Mr. Aranda
    • Academic Interventionists >
      • Ms. Draver
    • Specialists >
      • Music
      • Physical Education
      • Library
      • School Counselor
  • Nurse
  • Academics
    • Reading
    • Writing
    • Mathematics
    • Vocabulary
    • Word Walls
    • Instructional Technology
  • PBIS
  • Parent Teacher Conferences
  • SPORTS
  • Spanish CLUB
  • In the Spotlight
  • Special Events
    • Guests
    • Celebrations
    • Open House
    • Music Concerts
  • CLC - After School Program
  • Contact Information