Bringing Math Students Into the Formative Assessment Equation: Tools and Strategies for the Middle Grades - Softcover

Creighton, Susan; Tobey, Cheryl Rose; Karnowski, Eric E.; Fagan, Emily R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 148335010X ISBN 13: 9781483350103

Publisher: Corwin, 2015

Synopsis

Make formative assessment work for you―and your math students!

 

Finally, formative assessment that adds up! This research-based, teacher-tested guide, written specifically for middle school mathematics teachers, will help you teach more effectively and turn your students into self-regulated learners. As you implement instructional strategies, your students will start monitoring, assessing, and communicating about their own progress. Features include: 

• A clear and manageable six-aspect instructional model
• Detailed strategies for helping students own their successes
• Real-life examples from middle school mathematics teachers
• Useful resources and a companion website to help you implement formative assessment in your classroom

About this title

About the Author

Susan Janssen Creighton is a senior mathematics associate at Education Development Center (EDC) in Massachusetts. She has worked in mathematics education for 30 years, both in schools and at EDC, where her work has focused largely on K–12 mathematics curriculum development and mathematics teacher professional development. Currently, her work focuses on helping mathematics teachers adopt and successfully implement formative assessment practices, and on supporting teachers’ understanding and use of the CCSS Standards for Mathematical Practice. As a member of the NSF-funded project, Formative Assessment in Mathematics Classrooms: Engaging Teachers and Students (FACETS), she was a lead facilitator for several of the participating districts.

Creighton has written print and online materials for numerous clients, including the international Department of Defense schools, the Columbus, Ohio public schools, the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards, Everyday Learning publishers, the PBS TeacherLine project, the Massachusetts Dept. of Education, and the E-Learning for Educators project funded by the U.S. Dept. of Education. She has also served as the director of the MathScape Curriculum Center, a national center that supported the implementation of the NSF-funded mathematics curriculum MathScape developed at EDC, for which she was also one of the writers, and has led numerous teacher professional development opportunities for middle and high school teachers on the teaching and learning of mathematics. Prior to coming to EDC, she taught middle school and high school mathematics for a number of years in Portland and Saco, Maine and in Brookline, Massachusetts.  She received a B.A. mathematics and a M.Ed. in Secondary Education, with a concentration in curriculum, both from the University of New Hampshire. She currently lives in western Massachusetts with her husband, her two teenagers, and the world’s softest dog.

Review

 "This book not only provides the skills for both teachers and students to take part in the formative assessment process, but demonstrates a high level of the thinking required when teachers plan lessons."
Author: Lyneille Meza, Coordinator of Data & Assessment

"This book would be extremely helpful in helping my students learn to focus 1) consider and articulate the mathematics understanding, 2) shift their focus to making sense of student understanding, and 3) realize that true teaching is then acting on the gap between the understandings the student holds and the full set of understandings that you would like them to hold."
Author: Grace Kelemanik, Consultant & Mathematics Content Teacher Educator

"This book was outstanding, and I would recommend it to any math educator.  The depth of research integrated into practice is extensive and, as a result, is the most practical book I have seen related to either formative assessment or mathematics.  The most helpful aspect of the book is the affective nature so often ignored in educational works.  The self-regulation aspects, as well as the ownership and involvement emphasized in the book went beyond the traditional cognitive strategies endorsed in most books."
Author: Marc Simmons, Principal

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"The ideas [in this book] are brought to life with mathematics examples of teachers and students in the classroom. The teacher voices, comments, and quotes lend credibility and are a big component of the book’s strengths as well as the visuals and graphics."

Author: Rita Tellez, Math Coordinator

Edition details

• Publisher: Corwin
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 148335010X
• ISBN 13: 9781483350103
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 312