Questions to Support Discourse | These questions are located throughout your TIG. Use these questions as you facilitate lessons to assess students’ sense-making and reasoning, to gauge what they know, and to generate evidence of student learning. |
Chunking the Activity | This section of the Lesson Facilitation Guide offers suggestions for breaking the activity into smaller, meaningful chunks to support student processing, along with recommended check-in points for teachers to monitor student progress. |
Talk the Talk | Talk the Talk can be found at the end of each lesson so students can assess and monitor their own understanding, and you can interpret how well they have demonstrated the learning outcomes and prepare for what’s next. |
Interactive Quick Checks | Interactive Quick Checks are auto-evaluated, technology-enhanced checkpoints of understanding available in CLC at the end of each lesson session to give teachers immediate feedback concerning their students’ understanding and progress. A session represents approximately 45 minutes of instruction. |
Assignment: Practice Section | Assignments, available in the textbook and in CLC, can be found at the end of each lesson so students can reflect on and practice the new concepts of the lesson. |
Skills Practice | Skills Practice, available in both printable and interactive formats, provides practice problems that target each lesson’s skills, concepts, and applications. These resources are included with every set of lesson resources. |
End of Topic Assessment | Located in CLC, as printable or interactive assessments, End of Topic Assessments include short-answer and open-ended questions. |
Topic Self-Reflection | Students self-assess their ability to demonstrate understanding of the TEKS within the topic from given “I can” statements. |
Performance Tasks | Problem-based activities that are aligned with selected priority math standards taught in the course. |