Learning Opportunities

Building Thinking Classrooms

Presented By

Peter Liljedahl

Series Sessions

Date Time
Monday, December 09, 2019 9:00 AM - 3:30 PM

Location

In Person Holy Spirit PD Centre - 3rd Floor 620 12 Street B North, Lethbridge, AB

Building Thinking Classrooms

We know that problem solving is an effective way for students to learn to think mathematically and to acquire deep knowledge and understanding of the mathematics they are learning. Simply problematizing the mathematics curriculum, however, does not help constitute the practice that teachers want or students need. Equally, infusion of problem-based learning into the mathematics curriculum does not help with the transformations we want to see in our classrooms. What we need are a set of practices that, along with good problems, can build thinking classrooms. In this workshop, Dr. Peter Liljedahl looks at a series of such practices, emerging from 15 years of research that can help to build an environment conducive to problem-based learning. He will unpack his research that has demonstrates that a problem-based learning environment and culture can quickly be established, even in classrooms where students resist change.

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