Planning for learning math experientially is especially important for reaching the students who we aren’t currently successful with:
- What Makes for Good Learning Experiences
- Motivating Students: Focus on 6 Strategies
- Student Motivation: What Level of Engagement are Your Students At
- Engaging Tasks
- Experiential Learning provides an opportunity to learn math “just in time,” rather than “just in case.”
- McMEL (Maine Center for Meaningful Engaged Learning) Motivation Page
So we turn to experiences to help create the conditions for student motivation and provide a reason for learning the math:
- Common Core Math Standards
- A Plain English Instructional Model
- The Advantages of a Plain English Instructional Model
Some of our planning will come from thinking about the Instructional Model and about creating an Experience:
- Context
- Experience (including role for the student, compelling scenario, and the thing they need to do- the task)
- How to manage the process and the students through the process
- What will be the final product, the demonstration of learning?
And some of our planning will come from thinking about the Instructional Model and the Math Standards:
- The math learning targets
- How to build foundational knowledge (just in time, not just in case)
- How to practice and deepen understanding
- Formative feedback
- Summative feedback
Blank Narrative Experiential Learning Planning Document (make a copy)
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