High-Quality Tasks for Improving Instruction Posted: Wed,
05/09/2012 - 11:02am Updated: Fri, 02/22/2013 - 2:56pm In June
of 2012, the Indiana Department of Education and the Indiana
Council of Teachers of Mathematics (ICTM) will host regional
workshops to help teachers better understand the Common Core
Standards for Mathematical Practice (SMPs) and their connection
to the RISE Evaluation and Development System. To find workshop
dates in your area and to register, please visit the ICTM
website and download this flyer. A key focus of the workshops
will be analyzing student work to understand student proficiency
in mathematical practices. To help with this, teachers should
bring examples of student work on open-ended items. Teachers can
choose from the tasks listed below (two tasks offered for each
grade level) and use one of these tasks with students prior to
the workshop. This work will then be discussed at the June
workshops. To better understand the tasks, please view the brief
introductory video that accomp