DAY 8

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DAY 8
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TIMMS transcript focus questions

• To what extent is the teacher pushing students to
  think or probing for understanding? What is your
  evidence?
• To what extent are students using or learning
  procedures?
• What evidence did you see that students were
  making connections or were asked to make them?
  What kind of connections?
• What was the teachers goal for the class? Was it
  achieved?
• How did the questions in this transcript compare
  to those in the Hong Kong, Australia, and
  Tom/Lyle transcripts?

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Leading questions about the video

• a) How is she asking questions? Is she asking
  pushing students to think or probing for
  understanding?
• b) To what extent are students using procedures?
• c) To what extent are students making
  connections?
• d) What might she have done to set up the stage
  in her class so kids just didnt respond Thats
  what the calculator said the graph was.

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Whole room discussion

• What do the posters from Day 5, the class
  transcript, the article Never Say Anything a Kid
  Can Say, Blakes talk, and the video have in
  common?
• What sort of experiences would students need to
  be successful in activities such as these?
• Why is it important to carefully consider the
  questions and the type of questions you will ask?
• Is it important to balance the questions between
  pushing and probing? Why?