Welcome to The Practice
Workshop: Advancing Mathematics with Teacher-Centered PD in Utah’s Jordan School District
For mathematics classrooms, the teaching moves, the pedagogical practices, and ways to structure mathematics classrooms to get the most out of student engagement, are different.
In this conversation, we explore that with Amy Kinder, the K-12 Mathematics Administrator for Utah’s Jordan School District and former president of the Utah Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
New Insights Help Teachers See Classroom Conversation Patterns Even More Clearly
There’s so much happening at once when you’re teaching. It’s nearly impossible to have a complete picture of what really happened during a lesson. Whether you’re teaching or observing. TeachFX is here to change that.
TeachFX class reports provide insights about the practices most relevant to your teaching goals.
Now, the student voice, teacher voice, and questioning insights in your TeachFX class reports help you see visible evidence of the dialogical patterns and instructional practices that support deeper learning in your classroom.
What is school for?
It seems we’ve fully moved on from talking about getting our schools and our students back to normal. There is no back. And, if we’re honest, there has never been a “normal.” There’s only change.
And as we navigate this constant – and constantly accelerating – change, many of us are now asking: What is school for?
Have you been wrestling with this question, too?
4 Ways It’s Now Even Easier to TeachFX Your Next Lesson
Recording your classes on TeachFX has never been easier, or more personalizable to you and your classroom’s unique needs. Let’s check out what’s new.
Who is engaged in our classrooms? Who isn’t? And how do we know?
Who is engaged in our classrooms? Who isn’t? And how do we know?
Student engagement, and its sibling term meaningful student engagement, are heavily used terms. The number of whitepapers and blog posts that purport to define what student engagement is, how to measure it, and how to maximize it – pandemic or not – is simply staggering.
How to generate deeper learning with instructional conversations
Experimental research (Saunders & Goldenberg, 2009) demonstrates that students who talk more learn more when that talk is focused on higher-order thinking. Here, we explore three talk moves teachers can try to help facilitate instructional conversations that support higher-order thinking.
New Reminders Make it Easier to TeachFX Your Class
We get it. There's a lot happening in your classroom. That’s why we designed our new Reminders features. We hope they support you in being intentional in your classroom. ✨
Whether setting a reminder to TeachFX your class, or creating custom reminders to reflect on your TeachFX class reports, TeachFX is here to make it a bit easier to make it happen.
The Power of Student Talk in the K12 Math Classroom
What is the function of student talk in a math classroom? And what is the role of a math teacher in relation to student learning?
How to Use the TeachFX-Zoom Integration
With our TeachFX-Zoom integration, teachers can automatically import any class they record on Zoom into TeachFX.
Doing so helps teachers gain the same insights about engaging students in their learning, and about their own teaching practice, as they would using TeachFX in person in the classroom.
What’s more, it’s helping teachers, school leaders, and district leaders to support more equitable classrooms.
