2/25/14

By the end of the meeting, teachers will be able to create an assessment to measure students’ problem solving skills after doing the first chunk of the TIPS Strategy. The teacher will also analyze student work from chunk 1 and implement the next steps in their classrooms.

Bellringer discussion

• Four Corners Activity (Rubric Connections)

• Student work analysis

• What are the next steps?

• Creating focus quizzes using resources

• New Resources

• The problem solving rubric

• Teachers develop a focus quiz that includes a

word problem and a justification box.

• Teacher facilitates the quiz

• Support Schedule

• Closure

What did you like

about the activity?

Did you have to

change some parts of

the activity? If so, why?

How did you reinforce

the TIPS Strategy after

the Four Corners

Activity?

What is the format of the quiz?

How many items will be included in the

test?

What rubric will be used to grade the

quiz?

Where can we get some word problems

for the quiz?

Is this measuring the effectiveness of the

TIPS Strategy or students’ problem

solving skills?

Format of the test must mirror the pre-test

we gave

Justification box

1 or 2 word problems

All are using the same rubric for multiple

choice questions and constructed

response questions.

Resources• Louisiana believes

• Eureka Math• New Zealand• Opusmath• Math Shell• others

Create a focus quiz to be given between tomorrow and next cluster meeting. This will include

a) the standard/topics discussed last week and this week

b) at least one word problem

BRING STUDENT WORK NEXT WEEK and

a completed HML sheet, that includes

quantitative and qualitative data from the

focus quiz.

Predict the result of your focus quiz for next week in terms of how many will be High, Medium and Low. (Make sure that the total is equal to the number of students taking the test).

What were the bases of your prediction?

What would be a good evidence that the TIPS strategy is helping students?