Enhancing Classroom Practice with Research behind Principles to Actions

Description

This book summarizes and synthesizes the research behind each of the guiding principles and essential elements of Principles to Actions : Ensuring Mathematical Success for All, and offers examples of what the principles and elements might look like in classroom practice. It is intended to be used by preservice teachers, in-service teachers, instructional coaches, administrators, professional developers, and math teacher educators. Title......Page 3 Contents......Page 5 Acknowledgments......Page 7 Introduction......Page 9 1. The Nature and Role of Goals in and for Mathematics Instruction......Page 11 2. Implementing Tasks That Promote Reasoning and Problem Solving: Successes and Obstacles in Making Day-to-Day Mathematics High Level......Page 23 3. Representations as Tools for Mathematical Understanding......Page 37 4. Eliciting, Supporting, and Guiding the Math: Three Key Functions of the Teacher's Role in Facilitating Meaningful Mathematical Discourse......Page 47 5. Repurposing Teacher Questions: Working toward Assessing and Advancing Student Mathematical Understanding......Page 59 6. Teaching to Build Procedural Fluency......Page 71 7. Key Questions to Guide Teachers in Supporting Productive Struggle in Learning Mathematics......Page 83 8. Eliciting and Using Evidence of Student Thinking: Giving Students Voice......Page 99 9. Providing Access to Equitable Mathematics Learning......Page 109 10. "The Right Stuff": Curriculum to Support the Vision of NCTM and CCSSM......Page 123 11. What (Research on) Technology in the Mathematics Classroom Can and Cannot Do......Page 139 12. Using Assessment to Enhance Mathematics Teaching and Learning......Page 151 13. Professionalism: Collaborating on Instruction......Page 163 Back Page......Page 174