Deflategate explained
Workshop Overview
Your Post Day 1 Homework
CIQ: selected results
The Foundations of PSS
To what extent do the observations you made about PSS yesterday align with the foundations of PSS?
What are the different ways we can behave with an EM as instructors?
How does PSS fit into a required BME course at Georgia Tech?
Where in your course will PSS have the greatest impact on your students' learning?
A template for creating your own PSS session
Identify as many forms of troublesome knowledge that you can that your students bring to your course
What problem context(s) and question(s) might you ask to elicit and confront these troublesome knowledge?
What are the different dimensions of a problem's difficulty that you can adjust to get your students in their zone of proximal development?
Modify the difficulty of Deflategate
Work on developing your own PSS session
How can you promote the 3Cs in PSS?
Group reflection on today's work
Review the group reflections from yesterday
Compare and contrast these examples of a teacher's feedback to their students: which best promote learning and why?
How to talk with your students to maximize their learning
Table talk strategies to "teach for thinking"
Practicing Table Talk - Scenario 1 from Deflategate
Practicing Table Talk - Scenario 2 from Deflategate
Watch this video - what do you observe with respect to table talk?
Practice using the ICAP framework - categorize these student behaviors
How to take the ICAP "temperature" of your class
How to carry out a formal observation of your students' level of cognitive engagement
ICAP observation form
What to look for when you work with a student team - the "Desk Crit"
An example Desk Crit form for Deflategate
Now, continue to develop your PSS problem - this time thinking from a desk crit perspective
Play time! Imagine and role play a desk crit scenario in your course
Work on your problem
Getting peer feedback on the PSS session you are developing using the "Critical Response Process"
What barriers or challenges do you expect to encounter when you use PSS in your course?
3-2-1 reflection
Walkabout
Review the 3-2-1 reflections from yesterday
What was the rhyme and reason for how we ran this workshop?
Next steps: Coaching!
A final word and your feedback please!
What do you think about this Meetup course? We need your feedback.
Conclusion
An example syllabus for a PSS course
Example surveys we give students on the first day of class and prior to reforming the table teams
Article on troubleshooting
