Scaling the Teaching Curve: A PCMI Teacher Program Residential Workshop Monday, July 29 Photos Leveraging Artifacts of Student Thinking

Students in mathematics classrooms produce tangible artifacts from worksheets to group posters on a daily basis. Even when tied to instructional goals, artifacts are rarely leveraged to capitalize on their value beyond evidence of student time/effort. We examined the impact of positioning this residue of student thinking as an underused natural resource of the mathematics classroom. We explored ways to effectively use artifacts to:

1. enhance teachers' practice in collaboration with colleagues and in informing instruction.
2. benefit individual students as tools for metacognitive reflection, maps of learning and fodder for directed feedback.
3. serve as public invitation and support for deeper mathematics learning offered to each and every learner in an entire classroom community.

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