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The Fostering Algebraic Thinking Toolkit-A Guide For Staff Development

Science & Math

Driscoll, Mark

Nikula, Johannah

Goldsmith, Lynn

Hammerman, James

Humez, Andrea

Zawojewski, Judith

Mathematics

Heinemann

The Fostering Algebraic Thinking Toolkit

  The Fostering Algebraic Thinking Toolkit is a set of professional development materials.  The Toolkit features four separate modules.  The second and fourth include a video   This module takes a step beyond analysis of written student work

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ANDERSON, Carl

Words, Language & Grammar

    The Fostering Algebraic Thinking Toolkit is a set of professional development materials.  The Toolkit features four separate modules.  The second and fourth include a video   This module focuses on systematically recording information gained through analysis.

Mark Driscoll and codevelopers of The Fostering Algebraic Thinking Toolkit: A Guide for Staff Development will conduct the secondFostering Algebraic Thinking Facilitation Institute at the Education Development Center in Newton, Massachusetts, from July 21 to July 25, 2003.Commenting on their experience at the 2002 Institute, participants cited a range of new insights and skills they gained, including how todesign with purpose infuse facilitation into listening and questioning employ different strategies to manage group dynamics capitalize on diversity in mathematical thinking. As one participant noted, "It was great to learn and network with other professionals and to think more deeply about improving my techniques as a facilitator and presenter."For more information about the Institute, contact Angela Martino at 617.969.7100, ext. 2524, oramartino@edc.org. The Fostering Algebraic Thinking Toolkit is a set of professional development materials whose goal is to help mathematics teachers in grades 6-10 learn to identify, describe, and foster algebraic thinking in their students. Underlying the Toolkit is a core belief that good mathematics teaching begins with understanding how mathematics is learned. The focus here is on how students think about mathematics.The Toolkit features four separate modules containing notes for the facilitator and reproducible blackline masters for the workshop participants. Each module concentrates on a different kind of classroom evidence and, in facilitated sessions, asks teachers to collect student and/or teacher data to share and analyze with colleagues. A module can be covered in four three-hour sessions.The first module, Introduction and Analyzing Written Student Work gives participants an opportunity to analyze students' written work for evidence of algebraic thinking, and to become comfortable with the language of the algebraic habits of mind, before moving on to one of the other modules. Each of the three remaining modules builds on the work done here.Asking Questions of StudentsTogether with the accompanying video, this module offers a change both in the type of student data considered-from written to real time-and in the emphasis of the module-from understanding to fostering student thinking. Of the four modules, this one puts the least emphasis on looking at student thinking and focuses more specifically on the relationship between teacher intentions and teacher questions.

The Fostering Algebraic Thinking Toolkit (Asking Questions of Students) with VHS Tape

The Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study has shown that American schools have consistently helped students understand algebraic and statistical concepts, leading to high achievement internationally. Now it's time to do the same for geometry. Mark Driscoll, author of the powerful and popular Fostering Algebraic Thinking, takes up the challenge and leads you to new, research-based ways to improve how your students conceptualize and apply geometric ideas. With Fostering Geometric Thinking any math teacher can discover essential, practical ideas for helping students cultivate geometric habits of mind that lead to success in this crucial mathematical subject. The book focuses on rigorous, problem-based teaching that encourages students to deepen their thinking in three key geometric strands: 
<ul>
<li>geometric properties </li> <li>geometric transformations </li> <li>measurement of geometric objects.</li> </ul>
Fostering Geometric Thinking shows you how the interplay of these strands helps students devise multiple solutions and develop a broader sense of geometric principles. It's loaded with helpful resources, including: <ul>
<li>engaging problems to use in your classroom</li> <li>examples of student solutions to these problems</li> <li>transcripts of classroom interactions</li> <li>a DVD featuring in-the-field footage of students working through open-ended problems highlighted in the book.</li> </ul> Geometry is a vital component of mathematical understanding, and it's time that it received the same attention that algebra and statistics do. With engaging problems and straightforward suggestions that can help students deepen, recognize, and describe their thinking, Fostering Geometric Thinking is the resource you need to ensure that when it comes to geometry, your students know all the angles.

Fostering Geometric Thinking: A Guide for Teachers, Grades 5-10

Wing DiMatteo, Rachel

Egan, Michael

Practiced by teachers all across the U.S. and around the world, lesson study is widely recognized for the dynamic mix of learning opportunities it provides: <ul>
<li>classroom-based feedback on students' mathematical thinking and understanding </li> <li>mathematical knowledge for teaching and enrichment in the teaching craft </li> <li>collaborative observation research that addresses local challenges</li> <li>development of professional learning community</li> </ul>
The steps of the lesson study cycle are simple to follow, but its real power is in ongoing, rich team discussions. Strong leadership fosters a team's development as a learning community. A Mathematics Leader's Guide to Lesson Study in Practice helps mathematics leaders, coaches, administrators, and team members alike develop the momentum for deep professional learning. Jane Gorman, June Mark, and Johannah Nikula share the best practices they've learned in leading lesson study teams, training lesson study coaches, and launching lesson study programs in schools. Their Guide offers support for leaders and teams by focusing on three essential elements: <ul>
<li>Deepening your understanding of the goals, themes, and principles of lesson study and honing your capacity to apply that understanding</li> <li>Developing skills in the processes of the lesson study cycle</li> <li>Strengthening the connections of your work with the work of school, district, and the teaching profession in support of your growth and effectiveness as a professional. </li> </ul>
Readers will find a mix of practical advice, detailed guides to each phase of the cycle, stories of team practice, strategies for facilitation, and much more. They'll read first-hand how teams have moved from novices to mentors in lesson study, changing the professional culture in their schools. The Mathematics Leader's Guide is ideal for book study for teams who want to enrich their participation in lesson study. Taking teams beyond understanding how to get started, the Guide provides a resource to use across many cycles and years to continually deepen lesson study practice.

A Mathematics Leader's Guide to Lesson Study in Practice

Gorman, Jane

Mark, June

As educators across the U.S. and around the world know, lesson study gives teachers powerful classroom-based feedback that helps them evaluate their students' thinking and understanding. They become stronger instructional decision makers skilled at improving their own effectiveness. That translates into lasting benefits for teachers, students, and the entire school community. Through lesson study teachers develop a community for ongoing learning about mathematics and the craft of teaching. Through multiple cycles of lesson research they make real progress on long-term goals. Now, there is a ready resource to bring the benefits of lesson study to teachers in your school. Jane Gorman, June Mark, and Johannah Nikula have been leaders in lesson study for over a decade. They've helped novice and experienced lesson study teams enrich their professional learning. In Lesson Study in Practice: A Mathematics Staff Development Course, they share their wealth of experience and best practices. Their course offers a structured introduction to lesson study in a learn-by-doing format. Participants develop the mathematical knowledge for teaching that they need while they work through a full lesson study cycle. The course includes10 ready-to-go sessions complete with activities, professional readings, handouts, facilitator notes, and slides, DVD with video of the case study team in the classroom and in meetings, and comprehensive advice on organization, logistics, and the facilitation process. Both novice teams and experienced teams who want to enhance their practice are sure to find great value in the course and their instruction will be enriched. Give teachers and leaders a proven model for lasting learning and real results in improved practice.

Lesson Study in Practice: A Mathematics Staff Development Course

Language is deeply involved in learning mathematics as students both communicate and think about mathematical ideas. Because of this, teachers of English learners have particular challenges to overcome. Mathematical Thinking and Communication addresses perhaps the most significant challenge: providing access to mathematics for these students. For all students-and English learners in particular-access means finding effective, authentic ways to make language clear and thinking visible so they can reason more, speak more, and write more in mathematics. Based on extensive research and collaboration with teachers, coaches, and schools, Mark Driscoll, Johannah Nikula, and Jill Neumayer DePiper outline four principles for designing instruction that creates this kind of access: challenging tasks, multimodal representations, development of mathematical communication, and repeated structured practice. Starting from the perspective that English learners are capable of mathematical thinking (even as they are learning to express their ideas verbally), the authors highlight techniques for using gestures, drawings, models, manipulatives, and technology as tools for reasoning and communication. By embedding these visual representations into instruction-and encouraging their regular use-teachers support engagement in problem solving, facilitate mathematical dialogue, and notice evidence of students' thinking that propels them to create more engaging and equitable instruction. Enhanced by an extensive online collection of companion professional development resources, this book highlights classroom-ready strategies and routines for fostering mathematics success in all students and helping them recognize their potential.

Mathematical Thinking and Communication: Access for English Learners

Education & Teaching

Neumayer DePiper, Jill

Schools & Teaching

The Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study has shown that American schools have consistently helped students understand algebraic and statistical concepts, leading to high achievement internationally. Now it's time to do the same for geometry. Mark Driscoll, author of the powerful and popular Fostering Algebraic Thinking, takes up the challenge and leads you to new, research-based ways to improve how your students conceptualize and apply geometric ideas. With Fostering Geometric Thinking any math teacher can discover essential, practical ideas for helping students cultivate geometric habits of mind that lead to success in this crucial mathematical subject. The book focuses on rigorous, problem-based teaching that encourages students to deepen their thinking in three key geometric strands: <ul>
<li>geometric properties </li> <li>geometric transformations </li> <li>measurement of geometric objects.</li> </ul> Fostering Geometric Thinking shows you how the interplay of these strands helps students devise multiple solutions and develop a broader sense of geometric principles. It's loaded with helpful resources, including: <ul>
<li>engaging problems to use in your classroom</li> <li>examples of student solutions to these problems</li> <li>transcripts of classroom interactions</li> <li>online resources featuring in-the-field footage of students working through open-ended problems highlighted in the book.</li> </ul> Geometry is a vital component of mathematical understanding, and it's time that it received the same attention that algebra and statistics do. With engaging problems and straightforward suggestions that can help students deepen, recognize, and describe their thinking, Fostering Geometric Thinking is the resource you need to ensure that when it comes to geometry, your students know all the angles.

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The Fostering Algebraic Thinking Toolkit-A Guide For Staff Development

The Fostering Algebraic Thinking Toolkit

The Fostering Algebraic Thinking Toolkit

The Fostering Algebraic Thinking Toolkit (Asking Questions of Students) with VHS Tape

Fostering Geometric Thinking: A Guide for Teachers, Grades 5-10

A Mathematics Leader's Guide to Lesson Study in Practice

Lesson Study in Practice: A Mathematics Staff Development Course

Mathematical Thinking and Communication: Access for English Learners

Fostering Geometric Thinking: A Guide for Teachers, Grades 5-10