Keep Your Head Upand… Listening is

Hard

Max Ray

The Math Forum @ Drexel University

Keep Your Head Upand… Listening is

Hard

Max Ray

The Math Forum @ Drexel University

“When you feel yourself getting lost, don’t look

down, LOOK UP & LISTEN!”

-Ms. Thomas

Fast-Forward 15 Years…

Me, facilitating

Rough Workshop…

Tired faces

Crickets chirping

Off-task talking

Put-downs

Class clown behavior

Help!

A disaster, right?

“Activities were interactive.”

“Hands on work”

“Working with my peers to problem solve”

“The interactive role-play"

Getting Lost

How my plans look now:

On the path to “student-centered”…

We need to talk about what makes

this hard.

“Just listen to the students”

“Just shut up”“Listen TO, don’t listen

FOR”“Make thinking visible”

What makes a “listening to” approach hardin math class?

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What makes a “listening to” approach hardin math class?

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What makes a “listening to”

approach hard?What is a useful &

reasonable outcome for each path?

How will you all know the path(s) you’re on?

I Know I’m Challenged:

Rushing through the summing up

Spending too much time listening

Talking too much

The consensus is the students’

The consensus is super useful

When you don’t know the reasonable outcomes…

“When you feel yourself getting lost, don’t look down,

LOOK UP & LISTEN!”

Is it possible to resolve the tension the first time through?

What are we gonna do about it?

When you are still lost after listening… share that experience and

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