Episode Details

Host Ana Torres and Classroom Insider Eric Cross lead a discussion with two classroom teachers who have been making the shift from delivering math to facilitating it. Amy Siegmundt teaches third grade in Lockland School District in Ohio, and Jeffrey Mashbitz teaches seventh and eighth grade in the Lower Merion School District in Pennsylvania. Amy and Jeffrey share practical strategies for making facilitation work in any math classroom, including using sentence starters to help students talk about math and instructional routines that put students in the driver's seat. After the roundtable, Ana and Eric reflect on key takeaways, including why a great curriculum is less like a script and more like a recipe. 

Show notes: 

• Learn more about Amplify Desmos Math.
• Watch Student Centered Math Practices on YouTube.
• Listen to all Beyond My Years' math episodes.
• Follow up on Instagram.
• Subscribe to Beyond My Years.
• Connect with Ana Torres.
• Connect with Eric Cross.

Quotes: 

"You have to embrace the noise, because the noise and the conversation is the learning." —Amy Siegmundt 

"The conceptual part is more of the focus now. Being a facilitator, you're paying more attention to why the math works and not just how to do the math." —Jeffrey Mashbitz

"A noisy classroom was actually a joyful classroom. I realized that later." —Ana Torres

"We can't expect students to know how to collaborate if you we haven't taught them." —Eric Cross