Taking Action: Implementing Effective Mathematics Teaching Practices in Grades 9-12

by Melissa Boston, Stephen Miller, Fredrick Dillon

Melissa Boston, Frederick Dillon, Margaret Smith, and Stephen Miller   Are you ready to take your teaching to the next level? Taking Implementing Effective Mathematics Teaching Practices in Grades 9 12  offers a coherent set of professional learning experiences designed to foster teachers understanding of the effective mathematics teaching practices and their ability to apply those practices in their own classrooms. The book examines in depth what each teaching practice would look like in a high school classroom, with narrative cases, classroom videos, and real student work, presenting a rich array of experiences that bring the practices to life.   Chapters are sequenced to scaffold teachers exploration of the effective mathematics teaching practices and furnish activities and materials for hands-on learning experiences around each individual teaching practice and across the set of the eight effective practices as a whole. Specific examples of each practice are presented in context, providing real-life instantiations of what the practice looks and sounds like in the classroom, with a careful analysis that links the practice to student learning and equity.   The reader is invited to personally engage in two types of activities that run throughout the Analyzing Teaching and Learning , in which tasks or situations are presented to the reader to consider, work out, and reflect on, and Taking Action in Your Classroom , in which concrete suggestions are provided for exploring specific teaching practices in the classroom. Tools, such as a lesson plan template, a task analysis guide, and five practices for orchestrating productive discussions are offered to assist teachers in applying the ideas discussed in the book to their own practices.   For teachers who aspire to ambitious teaching that will provide each and every one of their students with more opportunities to experience mathematics as meaningful, challenging, and worthwhile, Taking Implementing Effective Mathematics Teaching Practices in Grades 9 12 is certain to be your number one go-to resource.

Genres: Teaching

260 pages, Paperback

Published May 1, 2017

Reviews

[Chris · Rating 5 out of 5]

*Establish mathematical goals to focus learning.
**Implement tasks that promote reasoning and problem solving
**Build procedural fluency from conceptual understanding

*Facilitate meaningful mathematical discourse
**Pose purposeful questions
**Use and connect mathematical representations
**Elicit and use evidence of student thinking
**Support productive struggle in learning mathematics

[Laura Mansfield · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm obsessed with this book. So much work in the math education has been directed towards middle school and this is finally and amazing resource for HS. With the book you get access to videos of real classrooms with students that are diverse across race, class, and ability level. One of the most "real" books for educators and I will certainly be using it as a resource throughout the school year.