Math Talk Professional Learning

Today I facilitated a professional learning opportunity with about 10 teachers working with students grades kindergarten through 4th grade.  It was a fun and busy day of learning with fabulous discussions.  The content was developed utilizing online resources as well as content from Visible Learning for Mathematics (Hattie, Fisher, Frey), Talk Moves (Chapin, O'Connor, Anderson), and Number Talks (Parrish).  The books are fabulous, and I would highly recommend a read.  In the meantime, feel free to utilize some of the slides from these Google Slides I put together to help guide our work for the morning.

Math Talk Moves Resource

This is a quick resource to help teachers remember five of the key math talk moves.  The information on the bookmark is based on the information from the book, Talk Moves: A Teacher's Guide for Using Classroom Discussions in Math written by Chapin, O'Connor, and Anderson.  It should be noted that there are other talk moves detailed in the book, this is just a resource for five that tend to be particularly high-leverage in my experience.  See the PDF version of this resource here.