Season 3: Episode 13: Building Thinking Classrooms: Toolkit #2 – Thinking Tasks and Questioning

Join Jeff Harker and guests Amanda Ray and Mandy Ramey as they discuss Toolkit #2 of the Building Thinking Classrooms Framework.  You’ve started using a few practices, now what?  You’ll gain insights about growing your own thinking classroom and get advice about what works.

This is episode 2 of a 4 part series diving into Building Thinking Classrooms for Mathematics by Peter Liljedahl.  Join us here at Keep Indiana Learning for all 4 episodes leading up to our first Building Thinking Classrooms Conference, June 29-30, 2023, hosted by our partners at Franklin Community Schools.

Amanda Ramey graduated from IUPUC with a BA in Elementary Education and ESL dual license.  She’s taught mostly fifth grade for the last 13 years. The last seven years with a primary focus in math and social studies. “The Building Thinking Classrooms approach has transformed my teaching.  Students in my classroom are talking more about their thinking. They are working through that productive struggle and learning to rely on me less for validation of their work.  They are proving their work to me, which I absolutely love seeing day in and day out.”

Amanda Ray graduated from Franklin College with BA in Elementary Education.  She has taught 5th Grade for 20 years – every year teaching math, and sometimes an additional subject.  She is currently also teaching Social Studies.  “I do not consider myself a ‘math’ person, but have fallen head over heels in love with teaching math, especially using BTC practices.”