Facilitators Guidebook For Use Of Mathematics Situations In Professional Learning

Author : Rose Mary Zbiek
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1641130814
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Facilitator's Guidebook for Use of Mathematics Situations in Professional Learning written by Rose Mary Zbiek and published by IAP. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The depth and breadth of a mathematics teacher’s understanding of mathematics matter most as the teacher engages in the daily work of teaching. One of the major challenges to teachers is to be ready to draw on the relevant mathematical ideas from different areas of the school curriculum and from their postsecondary mathematics experiences that can be helpful in explaining ideas to students, making instructional decisions, creating examples, and engaging in other aspects of their daily work. Being mathematically ready and confident requires teachers to engage in ongoing professional learning that helps them to connect mathematics to events like those they live on a daily basis. The purpose of this volume is to provide teachers, teacher educators, and other facilitators of professional learning opportunities with examples of authentic events and tools for discussing those events in professional learning settings. The work shared in Facilitator’s Guidebook for Use of Mathematics Situations in Professional Learning (Guidebook) resulted from a collaborative effort of school mathematics supervisors and university mathematics educators. The collaborators joined their varied experiences as teachers, coaches, supervisors, teacher educators, and researchers to suggest ways to scaffold activities, encourage discussion, and instigate reflection with teacher–participants of differing mathematics backgrounds and with varying teaching assignments. Each guide has ideas for engaging and furthering mathematical thought across a range of facilitator and participant mathematics backgrounds and draws on the collaborators’ uses of the Situations with in-service and prospective teachers. The events and mathematical ideas connected to each event come from Situations in Mathematical Understanding for Secondary Teaching: A Framework and Classroom-Based Situations. A Situation is a description of a classroom-related event and the mathematics related to it. For each of six Situations, school and university collaborators developed a facilitator’s guide that presents ideas and options for engaging teachers with the event and the mathematical ideas. The Guidebook also contains suggestions for how teachers and others might develop new Situations based on events from their own classrooms as a form of professional learning. Both teacher educators and school-based facilitators can use this volume to structure sessions and inspire ideas for professional learning activities that are rooted in the daily work of mathematics teachers and students.

Author : Babette Moeller
Publisher : Corwin
ISBN 13 : 9781412941488
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Math for All (K-2) written by Babette Moeller and published by Corwin. This book was released on 2013-01-29 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrate a collaborative, inclusive approach for teaching mathematics in Grades K-2! This complete resource guides you in leading the highly acclaimed Math for All program for K-2 teachers. Staff developers will find a user-friendly facilitator's guide and DVD (including presentations and video case studies) for conducting a series of five workshops. With the Math for All Participant's Book, this resource helps you: Show general and special education teachers how to collaborate to meet the needs of all students, including those with disabilities, and support the CCSS Demonstrate how to identify students' different strengths and challenges Build familiarity with the key neuro-developmental functions that shape children's learning Suggested use: Order one comprehensive package for the facilitator plus as many individual Math for All Participant's Books as needed for each individual in your group. Includes: Participant book, Facilitator's Guide, 2 DVDs

Author : Steven Benson
Publisher : Corwin Press
ISBN 13 : 9781412905206
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Facilitator's Guide to Ways to Think about Mathematics written by Steven Benson and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Facilitating mathematical investigations with teachers will help improve their teaching! Because a student's learning depends so heavily on teacher quality, districts and state departments of education, colleges, and universities are called upon to strengthen their teacher preparation and professional development programs. Yet college mathematics courses are often criticized for being disconnected from the mathematics that teachers are asked to teach. The Facilitator's Guide to Ways to Think About Mathematics is designed to close this gap. National and state standards and frameworks suggest that mathematical investigation, problem solving, and exploratory learning should play a central role in mathematics lessons. It is therefore necessary for teachers to experience mathematical explorations as learners themselves, which places new demands on professional development facilitators and preservice educators. This guide provides resources for facilitators to use while they are planning and implementing courses and workshops using Ways to Think About Mathematics. This guide and the accompanying CD-ROM contain: Commentary on the activities Pedagogical suggestions (materials sequencing, promoting active participation, adapting to the needs of particular teachers) Various solution strategies Additional reading and problems tied to the content of the main text Sample solutions for all problems and discussion questions Ways to Think About Mathematics and the Facilitator's Guide will provide staff developers, preservice educators, and math department chairs with all the necessary tools to provide high-quality staff development in secondary mathematics. The materials were funded by the National Science Foundation and successfully field-tested in a wide variety of professional development and preservice settings. CD-ROM is PC and Mac compatible and not sold separately.

Author : M. Kathleen Heid
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1681231158
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mathematical Understanding for Secondary Teaching written by M. Kathleen Heid and published by IAP. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A perennial discussion about teacher development is the optimal content background for teachers. In recent years, that discussion has taken center stage in the work of mathematics education researchers, mathematicians, mathematics professional developers, and mathematics education policymakers. Much of the existing and prior work in this area has been directed toward mathematical knowledge for teaching at the elementary level. The work described in this volume takes a sometimes-neglected approach, focusing on the dynamic nature of mathematical understanding rather than on a stable description of mathematical knowledge, and on mathematics for secondary teaching rather than mathematics for teaching at the elementary level. The work reported in Mathematical Understanding for Secondary Teaching: A Framework and Classroom-Based Situations is a practice-based response to the question of what mathematical understandings secondary teachers could productively use in their teaching. For each of more than 50 events, our team of almost 50 mathematics educators who were experienced mathematics teachers developed descriptions of the mathematics that teachers could use—each of those descriptions (consisting of the event and the mathematics related to the event) is what we call a Situation. We developed our Framework for Mathematical Understanding for Secondary Teaching (MUST) based on an analysis of our entire set of Situations. We call the work practice-based because the MUST framework is based on actual events that we witnessed in our observations of secondary mathematics practice. Groups of mathematics teachers can use this volume to enhance their own understandings of secondary mathematics. School leaders and professional developers in secondary mathematics will find our MUST Framework and Situations useful as they work with teachers in enhancing and deepening their understanding of secondary mathematics. Mathematics teacher educators and mathematicians who teach mathematics to prospective and in-service secondary teachers will be able to couch their mathematical discussions in the Situations—examples that arise from secondary mathematics classrooms. They will be able to use this volume as they design courses and programs that enhance mathematics from the perspectives identified in the MUST framework. Policymakers and researchers can use our MUST framework as they consider the mathematics background needed by teachers.

Author : Babette Moeller
Publisher : Corwin Press
ISBN 13 : 9781544386706
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Math for All Facilitator's Guide, Grades 3-5 written by Babette Moeller and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2019-05-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mathematics professional development program for inclusive classrooms Developed by the Education Development Center and Bank Street College of Education, this research-based professional development program will show general and special education teachers how to collaborate to provide a high-quality, standards-based mathematics education to all students, including those with disabilities. The Math for All learning experiences will help teachers: Assess students' strengths and needs Use multiple instructional strategies to teach specific math concepts Tailor lessons based on individual students' strengths and needs to help them achieve high-quality learning outcomes in mathematics Math for All emphasizes how the neurodevelopmental demands of a math lesson interact with individual students' strengths and needs. The program is designed to provide step-by-step guidance for adapting materials, activities, and instructional strategies to make lessons accessible to all students. An extensive facilitation guide provides detailed background and support for leading five, day-long (30 hours total) professional learning sessions. The accompanying participant book includes the handouts for use by teams of general and special education teachers, math coaches, instructional support specialists and aides. Accompanying video clips provide case examples of specific math lessons for team analysis, reflection, and application.

Author : Antonia Cameron
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Working with the Ratio Table, Grades 5-8 written by Antonia Cameron and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In their series of professional books for teachers, Young Mathematicians at Work, Catherine Twomey Fosnot and Maarten Dolk described Mathematics in the City, an innovative project where teachers helped young children construct a deep understanding of number and operation in a math-workshop environment. Now they and two colleagues from the project have developed a flexible, video-based, digital context for inquiry into the teaching and learning of mathematics that will change how professional development is conducted. Designed for you, the workshop leader or college instructor, the Working with the Ratio Table Resource Package enables your in- or preservice teachers to not only watch but interact with video that depicts classroom teachers as they listen to, question, and interpret students' thinking; develop connections between mathematical ideas and strategies; and, ultimately, develop vibrant mathematical communities in their classrooms. The Resource Package includes three valuable components: A completely interactive CD-ROM, where your workshop participants can explore-independently or under your guidance-videos of instruction and assessment; sample children's work over time to analyze development; take and save notes on what they see; capture specific frames or footage; and then email their captured video clips and notes to other members of your professional development workshop. The context of the classroom will be at the fingertips of your participants for exploration. A Professional Development Overview Manual that provides general advice on how you can use the CD-ROM for staff development. A Facilitator's Guide whose field-tested content is specific to the CD-ROM and includes helpful suggestions for using video clips and student examples on the CD to design rich professional development experiences; sample dialogue to help you anticipate what your participants might say; tips for facilitating discussions among teachers; and descriptions of the mathematical ideas being explored. In Working with the Ratio Table, your workshop participants will observe sixth graders as they construct some of the big ideas related to fractions, making connections between ratios and equivalence and uncovering landmark division strategies like comparison through common denominators. By studying the use of carefully crafted problems designed both to generate a range of solution strategies and to highlight the power of ratio tables and other models for division, teachers will discover what a valuable tool real-life contexts are for building a solid foundation in mathematics. System Requirements for CD-ROM Windows/PC Pentium II Processor 266MHz (or higher) Windows 98 (or higher) 64 MB RAM (more recommended) SVGA Color Display (or better) 4x CD-ROM Drive (or faster) Sound Card 16-bit Flash(TM) Player and Acrobat Reader(R) Quicktime 6.0 (or higher) Mac PowerPC Processor G3/233MHz (or higher) System 9.2 or 10.2 (or higher) 64 MB RAM (more recommended) SVGA Color Display (or better) 4x CD-ROM Drive (or faster) Sound Card 16-bit Flash(TM) Player and Acrobat Reader(R) Quicktime 6.0 (or higher) *Please note CD-ROM is not compatible with Mac OS X 10.7

Author : Nanette Seago
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
ISBN 13 : 9780325006826
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Learning and Teaching Linear Functions written by Nanette Seago and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 2004-02-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on videos of real classroom teaching, these materials better equip teachers to prepare and implement lessons that will help students develop conceptual understanding of linear functions.

Author : Catherine Miles Grant
Publisher : Corwin Press
ISBN 13 : 1412972795
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Secondary Lenses on Learning Participant Book written by Catherine Miles Grant and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2009-08-11 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This participant book, in combination with the facilitator's guide, forms a comprehensive professional development program designed to improve the efforts of site-based mathematics leadership teams for middle and high schools. Secondary Lenses on Learning prepares leaders to explore concepts in middle and high school algebra as a window into content, instruction, and assessment. You will learn how to assess the strengths and needs of your mathematics programs, set goals, and generate plans for ongoing improvement by engaging in extended explorations and conversations based on readings, problem-based activities, cases, and videos.

Author : David A. Sousa
Publisher : Corwin Press
ISBN 13 : 141296590X
Total Pages : 57 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Facilitator's Guide, How the Brain Learns Mathematics written by David A. Sousa and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The text offers a unique and simplified four-step model for teaching mathematics to PreK--12 students that helps teachers consistently relate what learners experience in the classroom to concrete, real-world applications.

Author : Anthony E. Kelly
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317639634
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Design Research Methods in Education written by Anthony E. Kelly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-16 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook presents the latest thinking and current examples of design research in education. Design-based research involves introducing innovations into real-world practices (as opposed to constrained laboratory contexts) and examining the impact of those designs on the learning process. Designed prototype applications (e.g., instructional methods, software or materials) and the research findings are then cycled back into the next iteration of the design innovation in order to build evidence of the particular theories being researched, and to positively impact practice and the diffusion of the innovation. The Handbook of Design Research Methods in Education-- the defining book for the field -- fills a need in how to conduct design research by those doing so right now. The chapters represent a broad array of interpretations and examples of how today’s design researchers conceptualize this emergent methodology across areas as diverse as educational leadership, diffusion of innovations, complexity theory, and curriculum research. This volume is designed as a guide for doctoral students, early career researchers and cross-over researchers from fields outside of education interested in supporting innovation in educational settings through conducting design research.