The Math Coach Field Guide: Charting Your Course - Softcover

Burns, Marilyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0941355721 ISBN 13: 9780941355728

Publisher: Math Solutions, 2006

Synopsis

The role of a math coach is demanding and often undefined. In this edited collection, veteran math coaches share their expertise, providing glimpses into the unique trials, false starts, and successes they have faced in their positions. The authors ask and answer such questions as What makes an effective math coach? and What pitfalls do math coaches encounter and what can they do about them?

About this title

From the Inside Flap

Math coaches and specialists assigned the task of improving mathematics instruction face an enormous and complex challenge. Most coaches take on this responsibility with a title and a charge, but seldom with a road map. The Math Coach Field Guide: Charting Your Course provides just the kind of guidance needed to help coaches in this demanding and often undefined role as they strive to support teachers in their teaching of math. In this collection of eleven articles, veteran math coaches share their expertise, providing glimpses into the unique trials, false starts, and successes they have experienced in their positions. The authors ask and answer such questions as What makes a math coach effective? What is important for a coach to think about in the role of supporting both eager and reluctant teachers? and What pitfalls do math coaches encounter and what can they do about them? Though The Math Coach Field Guide was written by coaches for other coaches, teacher leaders, school administrators, and mathematics supervisors will all find it to be an invaluable resource.

About the Author

Marilyn Burns is one of today's most highly respected mathematics educators. Over the course of more than 50 years, Marilyn has taught children, led in-service sessions, spoken at conferences, contributed to professional journals, written more than a dozen books for children, and created more than 20 professional development resources for teachers and administrators.

In 1984, Marilyn formed Math Solutions Professional Development, an organization dedicated to the improvement of math instruction in Grades K 8. Working with a highly qualified team of in-service leaders, Marilyn offered specialized courses to teachers and administrators nationwide. In collaboration with Scholastic in 2007, Marilyn developed Do The Math, a 13-module intervention program that focuses on Number and Operations. Do The Math targets addition and subtraction, multiplication, division, and fractions. In 2011, Marilyn developed Do The Math Now!, extending Do The Math to serve students in grades 6 and up. In 2012, working with a team of Math Solutions colleagues, Marilyn developed a web-based formative assessment tool suitable for grades 5 and up, Math Reasoning Inventory (MRI), funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Also in 2012, Marilyn and Scholastic developed Math Reads, a program that helps teachers use children s literature for teaching mathematics. Marilyn continues to teach regularly in the classroom, finding the experience essential to developing and testing new ideas and materials.

Edition details

• Publisher: Math Solutions
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0941355721
• ISBN 13: 9780941355728
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144