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Hi, I'm Daniel Bodansky,
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I'm going to be talking about the grade nine honors math demo class,
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we're going to be doing rational equations for this lesson.
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Um the objective is blessed is that students are going to be able to add
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and subtract rational expressions and you can see
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an example here of what that means.
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So, the context for this lesson, it's it's in a unit on rational equations,
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and we're in between lessons on finding the least common denominator
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and uh and multiply.
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So the first section that I'm asked to talk about is engagement strategies.
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So, first of all,
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we have to do now every day and are due now will be an inquiry with turn and talk
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and ask students to explain reasoning.
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Um my second method is named the steps and four equals paper, so
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then the steps will be a little bit inquiry as well,
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and uh then we'll have the students copy those,
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copy those steps that we've come up with down into their uh, into the math notebook,
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which is a normal procedure in class.
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Um We're also you'd be using a cold call and call and response
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and uh have an exit ticket every day.
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So the students know that they are accountable for the material that's in class,
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and then those actually tickets.
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And uh
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and our homework are used to
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inform my my seating charts for the next day.
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Uh so digital technology will be using in this class
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First, I have my
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agenda posted on manage back and the messages
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with all the links that the students need
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and we can sign post that way and tell them, tell them where we are in the lesson and
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um students just click a link and go where they need to go
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2nd. We're going to be using a graphing calculator does most
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um both to do the inquiry part and to
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check whether answers are reasonable or not.
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Third, we're going to be using quizzes as the exit ticket. This allows me to
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to get a really
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a fast turnaround on the on the exit ticket
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and uh and work on that data.
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And uh fourthly use Khan Academy for homework
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and that lets me get out of the
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percentage trap and into into whether the students
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have proficiency in the scale that we're looking at.
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Um student centered strategies.
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This is not a particularly student centered lessons.
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Um there's inquiry kind of grafted on top of a very direct instruction lesson
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and we tried some some more inquiry based lessons.
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When I first got here, we have a lot of our students are jumping up an extra year
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for honor students,
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so we have a skills gap, We have a prerequisite gap.
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We have work rate gap
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and our attempted
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things like flipped classroom made a lot of students frustrated and surveys
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indicated they want what they wanted something more direct instruction.
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So we're moving back to that for a little while until we kind of ameliorate these,
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these gaps
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and then we can move into into more,
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much more student choice,
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other things that we uh, that, uh, other techniques will be using a way time,
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cold call from the checking all the normal stuff.
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So thank you for listening to my explanation of my lesson.