Thought Exercise Field Guide: 100 Chart

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

Change isn't always easy within the complexity of a classroom environment, but our learners deserve the opportunities that come when we open up new possibilities. We're here for you as you go through your journey, and our hope is that this Field Guide will soon be tattered and torn, having almost been in "your back pocket" as you push into new terrain as a teacher. Our Field Guides are the antithesis of a textbook teacher edition. A Field Guide helps you navigate through small changes — in this case by adding a Thought Exercise into the cadence of your daily Math Block — but make a radical impact on your work. It’s written for you. It’s not meant to be a recipe book, or to tell you exactly what, when, and how to do something. We assume that the work you are doing is much more complex, and that you need to talk it over, to see it in action, and to try it out...and then repeat. We aren’t just helping you fill the class minutes you have — we want you to become an even better teacher for having opened this Field Guide. Our Field Guides contain both practical information and important background thoughts that will usher you forward towards running a Math Block. The best way to use this guide is to start by really studying the content we’ve included for you. There’s a lot here, and you’ll likely come back again and again to use our words, photos, artifacts, and videos to deepen your learning. This 75-page Field Guide discusses the pedagogy of a Thought Exercise and how Thought Exercises fit within our Math Block, the language we use, how our 100 Chart is different, and specific directions. In addition, you’ll have all of the 100 Chart Thought Exercise prompts we used across a whole year, for all four of our bands, as well as a video playlist that gives you a chance to study the 100 Chart Thought Exercise in action.