The Five Practices in Practice [Middle School]
Successfully Orchestrating Mathematics Discussions in Your Middle School Classroom
Margaret (Peg) Smith
- University of Pittsburgh, USA
Miriam Gamoran Sherin
- Northwestern University, USA
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Take a deep dive into the five practices for facilitating productive mathematical discussions
Take a deeper dive into understanding the five practices—anticipating, monitoring, selecting, sequencing, and connecting—for facilitating productive mathematical conversations in your middle school classrooms and learn to apply them with confidence. This follow-up to the modern classic, Five Practices for Orchestrating Productive Mathematics Discussions, shows the five practices in action in middle school classrooms and empowers teachers to be prepared for and overcome the challenges common to orchestrating math discussions.
The chapters unpack the five practices and guide teachers to a deeper understanding of how to use each practice effectively in an inquiry-oriented classroom. This book will help you launch meaningful mathematical discussion through
Take a deeper dive into understanding the five practices—anticipating, monitoring, selecting, sequencing, and connecting—for facilitating productive mathematical conversations in your middle school classrooms and learn to apply them with confidence. This follow-up to the modern classic, Five Practices for Orchestrating Productive Mathematics Discussions, shows the five practices in action in middle school classrooms and empowers teachers to be prepared for and overcome the challenges common to orchestrating math discussions.
The chapters unpack the five practices and guide teachers to a deeper understanding of how to use each practice effectively in an inquiry-oriented classroom. This book will help you launch meaningful mathematical discussion through
- Key questions to set learning goals, identify high-level tasks, anticipate student responses, and develop targeted assessing and advancing questions that jumpstart productive discussion—before class begins
- Video excerpts from real middle school classrooms that vividly illustrate the five practices in action and include built-in opportunities for you to consider effective ways to monitor students’ ideas, and successful approaches for selecting, sequencing, and connecting students’ ideas during instruction
- “Pause and Consider” prompts that help you reflect on an issue—and, in some cases, draw on your own classroom experience—prior to reading more about it
- “Linking To Your Own Instruction” sections help you implement the five practices with confidence in your own instruction
The book and companion website provide an array of resources including planning templates, sample lesson plans and completed monitoring tools, and mathematical tasks. Enhance your fluency in the five practices to bring powerful discussions of mathematical concepts to life in your classroom.
"This books takes 5 Practices for Orchestrating Productive Mathematics Discussions to the next level as readers experience what these practices look like in real mathematics classrooms in middle school. The authors specifically address the challenges one might face in implementing the classrooms by providing recommendations and concrete examples to avoid these challenges. This book is a must read for teachers who want to amplify their classroom implementation of the five practices."
Cathy Martin, Executive Director of Curriculum & Instruction
Denver Public Schools
Contents
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
About the Authors
Preface
Preface
Chapter 1 – Introduction
- The Five Practices in Practice: An Overview
- Purpose and Content
- Classroom Video Context
- Meet the Teachers
- Using this Book
- Norms for Video Viewing
- Getting Started!
Chapter 2 – Setting Goals and Selecting Tasks
- Part 1 – Unpacking the Practice: Setting Goals and Selecting Tasks
- Part 2 – Challenges Teachers Face: Setting Goals and Selecting Tasks
- Conclusion
Chapter 3 – Anticipating Student Responses
- Part 1 – Unpacking the Practice: Anticipating Student Responses
- Part 2 – Challenges Teachers Face: Anticipating Student Responses
- Conclusion
Chapter 4 – Monitoring Student Work
- Part 1 – Unpacking the Practice: Monitoring Student Work
- Part 2 – Challenges Teachers Face: Monitoring Student Work
- Conclusion
Chapter 5 – Selecting and Sequencing Student Solutions
- Part 1 – Unpacking the Practice: Selecting and Sequencing Student Solutions
- Part 2 – Challenges Teachers Face: Selecting and Sequencing Student Solutions
- Conclusion
Chapter 6 – Connecting Student Solutions
- Part 1 – Unpacking the Practice: Connecting Student Solutions
- Part 2 – Challenges Teachers Face: Connecting Student Responses
- Conclusion
Chapter 7 – Looking Back and Looking Ahead
- Why Use the Five Practices Model
- Getting Started with the Five Practices
- Plan Lessons Collaboratively
- Observe and Debrief Lessons
- Reflect on Your Lesson
- Video Clubs
- Organize a Book Study
- Explore Additional Resources
- Conclusion
Appendix A – Web-based Resources for Tasks and Lesson Plans
Appendix A – Web-based Resources for Tasks and Lesson Plans
Appendix B – Monitoring Chart
Appendix B – Monitoring Chart
Appendix C – Mrs. Mossotti’s Monitoring Chart
Appendix C – Mrs. Mossotti’s Monitoring Chart
Appendix D – Hold All Students Accountable
Appendix D – Hold All Students Accountable
Appendix E – Lesson Planning Template
Appendix E – Lesson Planning Template
Index
Index
Resources
Companion Website
http://resources.corwin.com/5practices-middleschoolAdditional materials
Description
Take a deep dive into the five practices for facilitating productive mathematical discussions
Take a deeper dive into understanding the five practices—anticipating, monitoring, selecting, sequencing, and connecting—for facilitating productive mathematical conversations in your middle school classrooms and learn to apply them with confidence. This follow-up to the modern classic, Five Practices for Orchestrating Productive Mathematics Discussions, shows the five practices in action in middle school classrooms and empowers teachers to be prepared for and overcome the challenges common to orchestrating math discussions.
The chapters unpack the five practices and guide teachers to a deeper understanding of how to use each practice effectively in an inquiry-oriented classroom. This book will help you launch meaningful mathematical discussion through
Take a deeper dive into understanding the five practices—anticipating, monitoring, selecting, sequencing, and connecting—for facilitating productive mathematical conversations in your middle school classrooms and learn to apply them with confidence. This follow-up to the modern classic, Five Practices for Orchestrating Productive Mathematics Discussions, shows the five practices in action in middle school classrooms and empowers teachers to be prepared for and overcome the challenges common to orchestrating math discussions.
The chapters unpack the five practices and guide teachers to a deeper understanding of how to use each practice effectively in an inquiry-oriented classroom. This book will help you launch meaningful mathematical discussion through
- Key questions to set learning goals, identify high-level tasks, anticipate student responses, and develop targeted assessing and advancing questions that jumpstart productive discussion—before class begins
- Video excerpts from real middle school classrooms that vividly illustrate the five practices in action and include built-in opportunities for you to consider effective ways to monitor students’ ideas, and successful approaches for selecting, sequencing, and connecting students’ ideas during instruction
- “Pause and Consider” prompts that help you reflect on an issue—and, in some cases, draw on your own classroom experience—prior to reading more about it
- “Linking To Your Own Instruction” sections help you implement the five practices with confidence in your own instruction
The book and companion website provide an array of resources including planning templates, sample lesson plans and completed monitoring tools, and mathematical tasks. Enhance your fluency in the five practices to bring powerful discussions of mathematical concepts to life in your classroom.
"This books takes 5 Practices for Orchestrating Productive Mathematics Discussions to the next level as readers experience what these practices look like in real mathematics classrooms in middle school. The authors specifically address the challenges one might face in implementing the classrooms by providing recommendations and concrete examples to avoid these challenges. This book is a must read for teachers who want to amplify their classroom implementation of the five practices."
Cathy Martin, Executive Director of Curriculum & Instruction
Denver Public Schools
Contents
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
About the Authors
Preface
Preface
Chapter 1 – Introduction
- The Five Practices in Practice: An Overview
- Purpose and Content
- Classroom Video Context
- Meet the Teachers
- Using this Book
- Norms for Video Viewing
- Getting Started!
Chapter 2 – Setting Goals and Selecting Tasks
- Part 1 – Unpacking the Practice: Setting Goals and Selecting Tasks
- Part 2 – Challenges Teachers Face: Setting Goals and Selecting Tasks
- Conclusion
Chapter 3 – Anticipating Student Responses
- Part 1 – Unpacking the Practice: Anticipating Student Responses
- Part 2 – Challenges Teachers Face: Anticipating Student Responses
- Conclusion
Chapter 4 – Monitoring Student Work
- Part 1 – Unpacking the Practice: Monitoring Student Work
- Part 2 – Challenges Teachers Face: Monitoring Student Work
- Conclusion
Chapter 5 – Selecting and Sequencing Student Solutions
- Part 1 – Unpacking the Practice: Selecting and Sequencing Student Solutions
- Part 2 – Challenges Teachers Face: Selecting and Sequencing Student Solutions
- Conclusion
Chapter 6 – Connecting Student Solutions
- Part 1 – Unpacking the Practice: Connecting Student Solutions
- Part 2 – Challenges Teachers Face: Connecting Student Responses
- Conclusion
Chapter 7 – Looking Back and Looking Ahead
- Why Use the Five Practices Model
- Getting Started with the Five Practices
- Plan Lessons Collaboratively
- Observe and Debrief Lessons
- Reflect on Your Lesson
- Video Clubs
- Organize a Book Study
- Explore Additional Resources
- Conclusion
Appendix A – Web-based Resources for Tasks and Lesson Plans
Appendix A – Web-based Resources for Tasks and Lesson Plans
Appendix B – Monitoring Chart
Appendix B – Monitoring Chart
Appendix C – Mrs. Mossotti’s Monitoring Chart
Appendix C – Mrs. Mossotti’s Monitoring Chart
Appendix D – Hold All Students Accountable
Appendix D – Hold All Students Accountable
Appendix E – Lesson Planning Template
Appendix E – Lesson Planning Template
Index
Index
Resources
Companion Website
http://resources.corwin.com/5practices-middleschoolAdditional materials
Reviews
The Five Practices in Practice [Middle School]
Successfully Orchestrating Mathematics Discussions in Your Middle School Classroom
February 2019 | 232 pages | Corwin
| Format | Published Date | ISBN | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paperback | 01/01/2025 | 9781544321189 | $39.95 |
| Lifetime | 01/01/2025 | 9781544321202 | $36.00 |
Take a deep dive into the five practices for facilitating productive mathematical discussions
Take a deeper dive into understanding the five practices—anticipating, monitoring, selecting, sequencing, and connecting—for facilitating productive mathematical conversations in your middle school classrooms and learn to apply them with confidence. This follow-up to the modern classic, Five Practices for Orchestrating Productive Mathematics Discussions, shows the five practices in action in middle school classrooms and empowers teachers to be prepared for and overcome the challenges common to orchestrating math discussions.
The chapters unpack the five practices and guide teachers to a deeper understanding of how to use each practice effectively in an inquiry-oriented classroom. This book will help you launch meaningful mathematical discussion through
Take a deeper dive into understanding the five practices—anticipating, monitoring, selecting, sequencing, and connecting—for facilitating productive mathematical conversations in your middle school classrooms and learn to apply them with confidence. This follow-up to the modern classic, Five Practices for Orchestrating Productive Mathematics Discussions, shows the five practices in action in middle school classrooms and empowers teachers to be prepared for and overcome the challenges common to orchestrating math discussions.
The chapters unpack the five practices and guide teachers to a deeper understanding of how to use each practice effectively in an inquiry-oriented classroom. This book will help you launch meaningful mathematical discussion through
- Key questions to set learning goals, identify high-level tasks, anticipate student responses, and develop targeted assessing and advancing questions that jumpstart productive discussion—before class begins
- Video excerpts from real middle school classrooms that vividly illustrate the five practices in action and include built-in opportunities for you to consider effective ways to monitor students’ ideas, and successful approaches for selecting, sequencing, and connecting students’ ideas during instruction
- “Pause and Consider” prompts that help you reflect on an issue—and, in some cases, draw on your own classroom experience—prior to reading more about it
- “Linking To Your Own Instruction” sections help you implement the five practices with confidence in your own instruction
The book and companion website provide an array of resources including planning templates, sample lesson plans and completed monitoring tools, and mathematical tasks. Enhance your fluency in the five practices to bring powerful discussions of mathematical concepts to life in your classroom.
"This books takes 5 Practices for Orchestrating Productive Mathematics Discussions to the next level as readers experience what these practices look like in real mathematics classrooms in middle school. The authors specifically address the challenges one might face in implementing the classrooms by providing recommendations and concrete examples to avoid these challenges. This book is a must read for teachers who want to amplify their classroom implementation of the five practices."
Cathy Martin, Executive Director of Curriculum & Instruction
Denver Public Schools
Table Of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- Preface
- Chapter 1 – Introduction
- The Five Practices in Practice: An Overview
- Purpose and Content
- Classroom Video Context
- Meet the Teachers
- Using this Book
- Norms for Video Viewing
- Getting Started!
- Chapter 2 – Setting Goals and Selecting Tasks
- Part 1 – Unpacking the Practice: Setting Goals and Selecting Tasks
- Part 2 – Challenges Teachers Face: Setting Goals and Selecting Tasks
- Conclusion
- Chapter 3 – Anticipating Student Responses
- Part 1 – Unpacking the Practice: Anticipating Student Responses
- Part 2 – Challenges Teachers Face: Anticipating Student Responses
- Conclusion
- Chapter 4 – Monitoring Student Work
- Part 1 – Unpacking the Practice: Monitoring Student Work
- Part 2 – Challenges Teachers Face: Monitoring Student Work
- Conclusion
- Chapter 5 – Selecting and Sequencing Student Solutions
- Part 1 – Unpacking the Practice: Selecting and Sequencing Student Solutions
- Part 2 – Challenges Teachers Face: Selecting and Sequencing Student Solutions
- Conclusion
- Chapter 6 – Connecting Student Solutions
- Part 1 – Unpacking the Practice: Connecting Student Solutions
- Part 2 – Challenges Teachers Face: Connecting Student Responses
- Conclusion
- Chapter 7 – Looking Back and Looking Ahead
- Why Use the Five Practices Model
- Getting Started with the Five Practices
- Plan Lessons Collaboratively
- Observe and Debrief Lessons
- Reflect on Your Lesson
- Video Clubs
- Organize a Book Study
- Explore Additional Resources
- Conclusion
- Appendix A – Web-based Resources for Tasks and Lesson Plans
- Appendix B – Monitoring Chart
- Appendix C – Mrs. Mossotti’s Monitoring Chart
- Appendix D – Hold All Students Accountable
- Appendix E – Lesson Planning Template
- Index
Recent Product Reviews:
The only reason for not adopting the book is because "The Five Practices in Practice (9-12)" book was released. In the future, I may jigsaw the 5P middle school and 5P 9-12.
Dr Jamalee Stone, College Of Education, Black Hills State University
Every middle school math teacher needs to understand the practices in this book and know how to use them effectively in the classroom. Use of these practices will empower middle school students to understand mathematics and feel like they can do math!
Lois A. Williams, Ed.D., Adjunct Professor, Mathematics Education Consultant, Author, Mary Baldwin University
This is a powerful and readable guide to shifting our middle school mathematics instruction toward maximizing our students' learning. But it's the clarity and familiarity of the challenges we all face when trying to implement these five practices - and the practicality and detail of the guidance provided in each chapter to address these challenges - that set this book apart and make it so useful for professional growth.
Steve Leinwand, Researcher/Change Agent, American Institutes for Research
This books takes 5 Practices for Orchestrating Productive Mathematics Discussions to the next level as readers experience what these practices look like in real mathematics classrooms in grades 6-8. Readers will engage in analysis of videos and student work as they deepen their understanding of the five practices. The authors specifically address the challenges one might face in implementing the classrooms by providing recommendations and concrete examples to avoid these challenges.
Cathy Martin, Executive Director, Curriculum & Instruction, Denver Public Schools
Smith and Sherin have hit a home run with this book. Research has shown the importance of effective discussion in the mathematics classroom. This book provides the structure and practices to implement discussion as well as classroom scenarios and illustrations to bring those practices to light. It is a must read for any middle school teacher and those who work with middle school teachers. Student understanding of math will be improved through the implementation of the ideas in this book.
Kevin Dykema, 8th Grade Math Teacher, Mattawan Consolidated Schools