The Five Practices in Practice [High School]

Successfully Orchestrating Mathematics Discussions in Your High School Classroom
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Margaret (Peg) Smith - University of Pittsburgh, USA
Michael D. Steele - University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
Miriam Gamoran Sherin - Northwestern University, USA
The Five Practices in Practice [High School]
February 2020 | 280 pages | Corwin
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“This book makes the five practices accessible for high school mathematics teachers. Teachers will see themselves and their classrooms throughout the book. High school mathematics departments and teams can use this book as a framework for engaging professional collaboration. I am particularly excited that this book situates the five practices as ambitious and equitable practices.”

Robert Q. Berry, III

NCTM President 2018-2020

Samuel Braley Gray Professor of Mathematics Education, University of Virginia

Take a deeper dive into understanding the five practices—anticipating, monitoring, selecting, sequencing, and connecting—for facilitating productive mathematical conversations in your high school classrooms and learn to apply them with confidence. This follow-up to the modern classic, 5 Practices for Orchestrating Productive Mathematics Discussions, shows the five practices in action in high 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 high 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, 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.

Contents

List of Video Clips

List of Video Clips

Foreword – Dan Meyer

Foreword – Dan Meyer

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

About the Authors

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 One: Unpacking the Practice: Setting Goals and Selecting Tasks
  • Specifying the Learning Goal
  • Identifying a High-Level Task That Aligns With the Goal
  • Cori Moran’s Attention to Key Questions: Setting Goals and Selecting Tasks
  • Part Two: Challenges Teachers Face: Setting Goals and Selecting Tasks
  • Identifying Learning Goals
  • Identifying a Doing-Mathematics Task
  • Ensuring Alignment Between Task and Goals
  • Launching a Task to Ensure Student Access
  • Conclusion

Chapter 3: Anticipating Student Responses

  • Part One: Unpacking the Practice: Anticipating Student Responses
  • Getting Inside the Problem
  • Planning to Respond to Student Thinking
  • Planning to Notice Student Thinking
  • Cori Moran’s Attention to Key Questions: Anticipating
  • Part Two: Challenges Teachers Face: Anticipating Student Responses
  • Moving Beyond the Way YOU Solved the Problem
  • Being Prepared to Help Students Who Cannot Get Started
  • Creating Questions That Move Students Toward the Mathematical Goal
  • Conclusion

Chapter 4: Monitoring Student Work

  • Part One: Unpacking the Practice: Monitoring Student Work
  • Tracking Student Thinking
  • Assessing Student Thinking
  • Advancing Student Thinking
  • Cori Moran’s Attention to Key Questions: Monitoring
  • Part Two: Challenges Teachers Face: Monitoring Student Work
  • Trying to Understand What Students Are Thinking
  • Keeping Track of Group Progress
  • Involving All Members of a Group
  • Conclusion

Chapter 5: Selecting and Sequencing Student Solutions

  • Part One: Unpacking the Practice: Selecting and Sequencing Student Solutions
  • Identifying Student Work to Highlight
  • Purposefully Selecting Individual Presenters
  • Establishing a Coherent Storyline
  • Cori Moran’s Attention to Key Questions: Selecting and Sequencing
  • Part Two: Challenges Teacher Face: Selecting and Sequencing Student Solutions
  • Selecting Only Solutions Relevant to Learning Goals
  • Expanding Beyond the Usual Presenters
  • Deciding What Work to Share When the Majority of Students Were Not Able to Solve the Task
  • Determining How to Sequence Incorrect and/or Incomplete Solutions
  • Conclusion

Chapter 6: Connecting Student Solutions

  • Part One: Unpacking the Practice: Connecting Student Solutions
  • Connecting Student Work to the Goals of the Lesson
  • Connecting Different Solutions to Each Other
  • Cori Moran’s Attention to Key Questions: Connecting
  • Part Two: Challenges Teachers Face: Connecting Student Responses
  • Keeping the Entire Class Engaged and Accountable During Individual Presentations
  • Ensuring That Key Mathematical Ideas are Made Public and Remain the Focus
  • Making Sure That You Do Not Take Over the Discussion and Do The Explaining
  • Running Out of Time
  • 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
  • Frequency and Timing of Use of the Five Practices Model
  • Conclusion

Resources

  • Appendix A—Web-based Resources for Tasks and Lesson Plans
  • Appendix B—Monitoring Chart
  • Appendix C—Ms. Moran’s Monitoring Chart
  • Appendix D—Resources for Holding Students Accountable
  • Appendix E—Lesson-Planning Template
  • References
  • Index

Description

“This book makes the five practices accessible for high school mathematics teachers. Teachers will see themselves and their classrooms throughout the book. High school mathematics departments and teams can use this book as a framework for engaging professional collaboration. I am particularly excited that this book situates the five practices as ambitious and equitable practices.”

Robert Q. Berry, III

NCTM President 2018-2020

Samuel Braley Gray Professor of Mathematics Education, University of Virginia

Take a deeper dive into understanding the five practices—anticipating, monitoring, selecting, sequencing, and connecting—for facilitating productive mathematical conversations in your high school classrooms and learn to apply them with confidence. This follow-up to the modern classic, 5 Practices for Orchestrating Productive Mathematics Discussions, shows the five practices in action in high 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 high 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, 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.

Contents

List of Video Clips

List of Video Clips

Foreword – Dan Meyer

Foreword – Dan Meyer

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

About the Authors

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 One: Unpacking the Practice: Setting Goals and Selecting Tasks
  • Specifying the Learning Goal
  • Identifying a High-Level Task That Aligns With the Goal
  • Cori Moran’s Attention to Key Questions: Setting Goals and Selecting Tasks
  • Part Two: Challenges Teachers Face: Setting Goals and Selecting Tasks
  • Identifying Learning Goals
  • Identifying a Doing-Mathematics Task
  • Ensuring Alignment Between Task and Goals
  • Launching a Task to Ensure Student Access
  • Conclusion

Chapter 3: Anticipating Student Responses

  • Part One: Unpacking the Practice: Anticipating Student Responses
  • Getting Inside the Problem
  • Planning to Respond to Student Thinking
  • Planning to Notice Student Thinking
  • Cori Moran’s Attention to Key Questions: Anticipating
  • Part Two: Challenges Teachers Face: Anticipating Student Responses
  • Moving Beyond the Way YOU Solved the Problem
  • Being Prepared to Help Students Who Cannot Get Started
  • Creating Questions That Move Students Toward the Mathematical Goal
  • Conclusion

Chapter 4: Monitoring Student Work

  • Part One: Unpacking the Practice: Monitoring Student Work
  • Tracking Student Thinking
  • Assessing Student Thinking
  • Advancing Student Thinking
  • Cori Moran’s Attention to Key Questions: Monitoring
  • Part Two: Challenges Teachers Face: Monitoring Student Work
  • Trying to Understand What Students Are Thinking
  • Keeping Track of Group Progress
  • Involving All Members of a Group
  • Conclusion

Chapter 5: Selecting and Sequencing Student Solutions

  • Part One: Unpacking the Practice: Selecting and Sequencing Student Solutions
  • Identifying Student Work to Highlight
  • Purposefully Selecting Individual Presenters
  • Establishing a Coherent Storyline
  • Cori Moran’s Attention to Key Questions: Selecting and Sequencing
  • Part Two: Challenges Teacher Face: Selecting and Sequencing Student Solutions
  • Selecting Only Solutions Relevant to Learning Goals
  • Expanding Beyond the Usual Presenters
  • Deciding What Work to Share When the Majority of Students Were Not Able to Solve the Task
  • Determining How to Sequence Incorrect and/or Incomplete Solutions
  • Conclusion

Chapter 6: Connecting Student Solutions

  • Part One: Unpacking the Practice: Connecting Student Solutions
  • Connecting Student Work to the Goals of the Lesson
  • Connecting Different Solutions to Each Other
  • Cori Moran’s Attention to Key Questions: Connecting
  • Part Two: Challenges Teachers Face: Connecting Student Responses
  • Keeping the Entire Class Engaged and Accountable During Individual Presentations
  • Ensuring That Key Mathematical Ideas are Made Public and Remain the Focus
  • Making Sure That You Do Not Take Over the Discussion and Do The Explaining
  • Running Out of Time
  • 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
  • Frequency and Timing of Use of the Five Practices Model
  • Conclusion

Resources

  • Appendix A—Web-based Resources for Tasks and Lesson Plans
  • Appendix B—Monitoring Chart
  • Appendix C—Ms. Moran’s Monitoring Chart
  • Appendix D—Resources for Holding Students Accountable
  • Appendix E—Lesson-Planning Template
  • References
  • Index
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Successfully Orchestrating Mathematics Discussions in Your High School Classroom


February 2020 | 280 pages | Corwin

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“This book makes the five practices accessible for high school mathematics teachers. Teachers will see themselves and their classrooms throughout the book. High school mathematics departments and teams can use this book as a framework for engaging professional collaboration. I am particularly excited that this book situates the five practices as ambitious and equitable practices.”

Robert Q. Berry, III

NCTM President 2018-2020

Samuel Braley Gray Professor of Mathematics Education, University of Virginia

Take a deeper dive into understanding the five practices—anticipating, monitoring, selecting, sequencing, and connecting—for facilitating productive mathematical conversations in your high school classrooms and learn to apply them with confidence. This follow-up to the modern classic, 5 Practices for Orchestrating Productive Mathematics Discussions, shows the five practices in action in high 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 high 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, 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.


Table Of Contents:

  • List of Video Clips
  • Foreword – Dan Meyer
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Authors
  • 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 One: Unpacking the Practice: Setting Goals and Selecting Tasks
  • Specifying the Learning Goal
  • Identifying a High-Level Task That Aligns With the Goal
  • Cori Moran’s Attention to Key Questions: Setting Goals and Selecting Tasks
  • Part Two: Challenges Teachers Face: Setting Goals and Selecting Tasks
  • Identifying Learning Goals
  • Identifying a Doing-Mathematics Task
  • Ensuring Alignment Between Task and Goals
  • Launching a Task to Ensure Student Access
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 3: Anticipating Student Responses
  • Part One: Unpacking the Practice: Anticipating Student Responses
  • Getting Inside the Problem
  • Planning to Respond to Student Thinking
  • Planning to Notice Student Thinking
  • Cori Moran’s Attention to Key Questions: Anticipating
  • Part Two: Challenges Teachers Face: Anticipating Student Responses
  • Moving Beyond the Way YOU Solved the Problem
  • Being Prepared to Help Students Who Cannot Get Started
  • Creating Questions That Move Students Toward the Mathematical Goal
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 4: Monitoring Student Work
  • Part One: Unpacking the Practice: Monitoring Student Work
  • Tracking Student Thinking
  • Assessing Student Thinking
  • Advancing Student Thinking
  • Cori Moran’s Attention to Key Questions: Monitoring
  • Part Two: Challenges Teachers Face: Monitoring Student Work
  • Trying to Understand What Students Are Thinking
  • Keeping Track of Group Progress
  • Involving All Members of a Group
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 5: Selecting and Sequencing Student Solutions
  • Part One: Unpacking the Practice: Selecting and Sequencing Student Solutions
  • Identifying Student Work to Highlight
  • Purposefully Selecting Individual Presenters
  • Establishing a Coherent Storyline
  • Cori Moran’s Attention to Key Questions: Selecting and Sequencing
  • Part Two: Challenges Teacher Face: Selecting and Sequencing Student Solutions
  • Selecting Only Solutions Relevant to Learning Goals
  • Expanding Beyond the Usual Presenters
  • Deciding What Work to Share When the Majority of Students Were Not Able to Solve the Task
  • Determining How to Sequence Incorrect and/or Incomplete Solutions
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 6: Connecting Student Solutions
  • Part One: Unpacking the Practice: Connecting Student Solutions
  • Connecting Student Work to the Goals of the Lesson
  • Connecting Different Solutions to Each Other
  • Cori Moran’s Attention to Key Questions: Connecting
  • Part Two: Challenges Teachers Face: Connecting Student Responses
  • Keeping the Entire Class Engaged and Accountable During Individual Presentations
  • Ensuring That Key Mathematical Ideas are Made Public and Remain the Focus
  • Making Sure That You Do Not Take Over the Discussion and Do The Explaining
  • Running Out of Time
  • 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
  • Frequency and Timing of Use of the Five Practices Model
  • Conclusion
  • Resources
  • Appendix A—Web-based Resources for Tasks and Lesson Plans
  • Appendix B—Monitoring Chart
  • Appendix C—Ms. Moran’s Monitoring Chart
  • Appendix D—Resources for Holding Students Accountable
  • Appendix E—Lesson-Planning Template
  • References
  • Index

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