The Five Practices in Practice [Elementary]: Successfully Orchestrating Mathematics Discussions in Your Elementary Classroom (Corwin Mathematics Series) - Softcover

Smith, Margaret (Peg); Bill, Victoria L.; Sherin, Miriam Gamoran

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1544321139 ISBN 13: 9781544321134

Publisher: Corwin, 2019

Synopsis

Take a deep dive into the five practices for facilitating productive mathematical discussions

Enhance your fluency in the five practices―anticipating, monitoring, selecting, sequencing, and connecting―to bring powerful discussions of mathematical concepts to life in your elementary classroom. This book unpacks the five practices for deeper understanding and empowers you to use each practice effectively.

•  Video excerpts vividly illustrate the five practices in action in real elementary classrooms 
•  Key questions help you set learning goals, identify high-level tasks, and jumpstart discussion
•  Prompts guide you to be prepared for and overcome common challenges

Includes planning templates, sample lesson plans and completed monitoring tools, and mathematical tasks.  

About this title

About the Authors

Margaret (Peg) Smith is a Professor Emerita at University of Pittsburgh. Over the past three decades she has been developing research-based materials for use in the professional development of mathematics teachers. She has coauthored several books including Five Practices for Orchestrating Productive Discussions (with Mary Kay Stein), the middle and high school versions of the Taking Action series (with Melissa Boston, Fredrick Dillon, Stephen Miller, and Lynn Raith), and The 5 Practices in Practice: Successfully Orchestrating Mathematics Discussion in Your Classroom series (with Victoria Bill, Miriam Gameron Sherin, and Michael Steele). In 2006 she received the Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award given annually to honor outstanding faculty at the University of Pittsburgh. In 2009 she received the award for Excellence in Teaching in Mathematics Teacher Education from AMTE. In April 2019 she received the Lifetime Achievement Award from NCTM.

Victoria Bill is a former elementary and middle school mathematics teacher. She is currently a Fellow and lead of the mathematics team with the Institute for Learning at the Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh.  She has been designing and facilitating professional development with administrators, coaches and teachers in urban districts for more than 20 years. She also develops curriculum, intervention materials and performance-based assessments. Bill was the Co-Pi on a collaborative research project between researchers from the LRDC, the IFL, and the Tennessee Department of Education in which an instructional Mathematics Coaching Model was developed. Bill regularly speaks at the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, National Supervisors of Mathematics, and National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Research Conferences. She is co-author of the NCTM best seller Taking Action: Implementing Effective Mathematics Teaching Practices Grades k-5.  

Edition details

• Publisher: Corwin
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1544321139
• ISBN 13: 9781544321134
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240