What exactly do your students need to know by the end of each unit of mathematics study throughout the school year? This practical resource empowers teacher teams to collectively plan for and deliver highly effective units of study in grades 6-8. The authors clearly outline how to generate essential learning standards, create a team unit calendar, identify prior knowledge, and complete many other essential collaborative tasks.
Use this resource to provide intermediate grade-level students with a more equitable mathematics learning experience
- Understand how to collaboratively plan mathematics units in grades 6-8 as a professional learning community (PLC).
- Study the seven unit-planning elements and learn how to incorporate each in essential unit design.
- Review the role of the PLC at Work® process in enhancing student learning and teacher collaboration.
- Observe three model units, one for each grade, for ratios and proportional reasoning.
- Receive tools and templates for effective unit planning.
Contents:
Acknowledgments
Table of Contents
About the Authors
Introduction
Part One: Mathematics Unit Planning and Design Elements
Chapter 1: Planning for Student Learning of Mathematics in Grades 6 8
Chapter 2: Unit Planning as a Collaborative Mathematics Team
Part Two: Ratios and Proportional Reasoning Examples, Grades 6 8
Chapter 3: Grade 6 Unit--Ratios and Rates
Chapter 4: Grade 7 Unit--Proportional Reasoning
Chapter 5: Grade 8 Unit--Linear Functions and Equations
Epilogue
Appendix A: Create a Proficiency Map
Appendix B: Team Checklist and Questions for Mathematics Unit Planning
References and Resources
Index
Sarah Schuhl is a consultant specializing in professional learning communities, mathematics, common formative and summative assessment, school improvement, and RTI. She has been a secondary mathematics teacher, high school instructional coach, and K-12 mathematics specialist for more than 20 years.
Timothy D. Kanold, PhD, is an award-winning educator, author, and consultant and national thought leader in mathematics. He is former director of mathematics and science and served as superintendent of Adlai E. Stevenson High School District 125, a model professional learning community (PLC) district in Lincolnshire, Illinois.
Jessica Kanold-McIntyre is an educational consultant and author committed to supporting teacher implementation of rigorous mathematics curriculum and assessment practices, blended with research-informed instructional practices. She works with teachers and schools around the country to meet the needs of their students. Specifically, she specializes in building and supporting the collaborative teacher culture through the curriculum, assessment, and instruction cycle.
Suyi Chuang is the professional learning supervisor for Loudoun County Public Schools in Ashburn, Virginia. Suyi also serves the school district as a certified project-based learning (PBL) facilitator and formerly served the district as a supervisor of K-12 mathematics
Matthew R. Larson, PhD, an award-winning educator and author, served as the K-12 mathematics curriculum specialist for Lincoln Public Schools in Nebraska for more than twenty years. He served as president of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) from 2016 to 2018. Dr. Larson has taught mathematics at the elementary through college levels and has held an honorary appointment as a visiting associate professor of mathematics education at Teachers College, Columbia University.
Mignon Smith is an assistant principal at a middle school in the District of Columbia. Previously, she served as a math instructional specialist (grades K-8), curriculum planner, math department chair, grade-level chair, and math and physics teacher. She has taught in public, charter, and private school environments across elementary, middle, and high school.
