On the afternoon of Tuesday, September 20th, 2024, Robert J. Tait Staff engaged in Professional Development using the book Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics, by Simon Fraser University Professor of Education, Peter Liljedahl. In his book, Professor Liljedahl shares 14 Teaching Practices that can create conditions for student thinking - students thinking more deeply and in longer duration in math activities. The Teaching Practices that Tait Staff focused on through this afternoon were:

Types of Tasks That Can Be Used in a Thinking Classroom

How to Form Collaborative Groups in a Thinking Classroom

Where Students Work in a Thinking Classroom

Following this Professional Development afternoon, teachers took some of the ideas shared back to their classrooms to be used with their students, and to help create lessons and activities that could be used to deepen the thinking for their students when they engaged in mathematics.