When's the last time you asked someone to just show you how to do something, instead of figuring it out yourself? Now flip it: how often do you ask students to just go figure something out on their own?
In this episode, Christina digs into a pattern that surfaced again and again while interviewing presenters for the upcoming Math Summit: we preach productive struggle for kids, but rarely practice it ourselves. Kaneka Turner explains why "can you just teach the lesson so I can watch?" doesn't actually build the reasoning teachers need, the same reason "just tell me" doesn't work for kids either. Elham Kazemi and Allison Hintz share a deceptively simple fix for the instinct to rescue stuck kids one at a time instead of noticing patterns across the room. And Mona Iehl makes the case that kids won't productively struggle because we rarely give them the time to. Sometimes our help isn't actually helping.
Christina's takeaway: struggle isn't a kid problem or a teacher problem. It's a stance toward not-knowing that applies to all of us.
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