Table of Contents
Success Criteria for upside down teaching
How_to_Create_OpenEnded_Questions
Parallel-and-Open-Questions-Grades-K-3- Parallel-and-Open-Questions-Grades-3-5-
No more CUBES and Keywords!!!!! Try this: 3 READS
What is Upside-Down Teaching?
Turning Teaching Upside-Down Article by Cathy Seeley
Great article that focuses on why the struggle/grapple time is important.
Article and Task Planning Sheet:
Article-Orchestrating Discussions
Three Steps to Increase a Math Problem’s DOK Level
Open Task Resources
https://www.youcubed.org/tasks/
Illuminations Website
Which One Doesn’t Belong (AKA Odd One Out)
Videos:
Dr. Juli Dixon teaches a problem-based lesson in a 5th grade classroom.
Excellent video to show the whole process of upside-down teaching and thinking that goes on from the students and the teacher in a 5th grade classroom working on dividing decimals.
https://eleducation.org/resources/grappling-with-new-concepts-during-a-common-core-math-workshop
Another excellent video of a 3rd grade classroom to show upside-down teaching with commutative property of multiplication.
https://eleducation.org/resources/understanding-mathematics-through-grappling-and-discourse
Upside-Down Teaching of a 3rd grade class, focusing on discourse. Students work with fractions.