Classroom Discussions in Math: A Facilitator’s Guide to Support Professional Learning of Discourse and the Common Core, Grades K-6 - Softcover

Anderson, Nancy Canavan; Chapin, Suzanne H.; O’Connor, Catherine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1935099124 ISBN 13: 9781935099123

Publisher: Math Solutions, 2011

Synopsis

Classroom Discussions in Math: A Facilitator's Guide to Support Professional Learning of Discourse and the Common Core provides preservice and inservice instructors, coaches, and facilitators with real, classroom-based video examples that illustrate the principles and practices covered in the authors’ best-selling book, Talk Moves: A Teacher’s Guide for Using Classroom Discussions in Math, Grades K–6,Third Edition. Ideally, the three components—facilitator’s guide, DVDs, and teacher’s guide—are used together. The video examples demonstrate how the talk tools described in the book can be used successfully in typical classrooms.
This resource offers
• 75 video clips, totaling five hours of video filmed in actual grades K–6 classrooms;
• 20 sessions, totaling thirty to forty hours of professional development experiences;
• 12 lesson plans aligned to Common Core State Standards; and
• more than twenty ready-to-use reproducible handouts.
 
FACILITATOR’S GUIDE
The 240-page guide offers twenty professional development sessions centered on video clips illustrating best talk practices in action. The sessions are divided into chapters that correspond to the chapters in Talk Moves: A Teacher’s Guide for Using Classroom Discussions in Math, Grades K–6, Third Edition (available separately). Included in each of the sessions are activities to use in conjunction with the video clips, reproducible handouts, discussion questions, and assignments for participants.
 
TWO DVDs
The accompanying two DVDs organize the seventy-five video clips in two ways for viewing convenience: by chapter and by grade level. The labels on all video clips indicate the section of the facilitator’s guide in which the clips are used. The clips range from one to fifteen minutes in length with a total viewing time of approximately five hours.
CD OF REPRODUCIBLES
The accompanying CD contains a Lesson Planning Template and two sets of reproducibles—session handouts and lesson plans—in printable PDF format.
 

About this title

About the Author

Nancy Canavan Anderson has taught mathematics to students from kindergarten through grade eight. She has also worked as an instructor for preservice teachers and a consultant for Math Solutions. She received her doctoral degree in mathematics education from Boston University.
Suzanne H. Chapin is a professor of mathematics education at Boston University. She is interested in mathematics curricula, the education of the gifted, and how to further the mathematics achievement of economically disadvantaged students. Over the past twenty-five years, Chapin has directed many projects and written many books in these areas.
Catherine O’Connor is a professor in linguistics and education at Boston University. She works with teachers and researchers to study language use in classrooms.
 

Edition details

• Publisher: Math Solutions
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1935099124
• ISBN 13: 9781935099123
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240