Professional Development Mathematics

Powerful Mathematics Practices

Kirsten Sundell — Thu, 09 May 2019 20:05:00 +0000

[image:8399, image right w35]SREB’s Powerful Mathematics Instructional Practices help teachers take a balanced approach to math instruction in which they use formative assessment lessons to check students’ understanding of math concepts and correct any misunderstandings.

Teachers using these practices challenge students with complex assignments that engage students in a productive struggle.

What Do the Practices Look Like?

Our Powerful Mathematics Instructional Practices Rubric offers examples of teacher and student behaviors and learning artifacts found in classrooms that embrace these six practices:

Planning for and ensuring a balanced approach to mathematics
Engaging students in assignments that matter
Utilizing questioning and feedback for deeper understanding
Using formative assessment data
Fostering a classroom environment that supports student ownership of learning
Reflecting on teaching practice

Customizable Design and Delivery

We offer professional learning support that is never one-size-fits-all.

SREB’s leadership and instructional coaches partner with district- and school-based leaders to conduct an initial curriculum and instruction review or consultation to inform the scope and sequence of a customized professional learning plan.

In a typical implementation, districts or schools undertake a cycle of professional learning and face-to-face and virtual coaching. After each cycle, SREB’s coaches work with school leaders to review and revise the professional learning plan based on classroom observations, teacher and principal conversations, and other data.

Our approach builds capacity and sustainability by developing local expertise to spread the practices to new and existing teachers.

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Powerful Mathematics Instructional Practices

Kirsten Sundell — Fri, 24 Aug 2018 17:05:00 +0000

Build students' procedural and reasoning skills and deepen their understanding of math concepts

[image:7056, image right w35]This quick-reference guide presents examples of teacher and student behaviors and learning artifacts found in classrooms that embrace SREB’s six Powerful Mathematics Instructional Practices.

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Not Made for Math? Think Again

Beth Day — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 12:00:00 +0000

How to Turn Every Student Into a Math Person

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Adrienne Dumas has heard it from kids for years, like so many teachers and parents: “I just don’t have a math brain.”

A math teacher at Northwest Rankin High School in Flowood, Mississippi, Dumas disagrees, and with good reason — her Algebra 1 and geometry students have a 100 percent passing rate for the past three years on the state test. Dumas and other teachers offer their tips for math success in a recent SREB High Schools That Work newsletter.

Making Math Matter

Diane James — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 15:24:00 +0000

High-Quality Assignments That Help Students Solve Problems and Own Their Learning

This report presents results of teacher and student surveys on how powerful Mathematics Design Collaborative practices are shifting how teachers teach. It also summarizes student achievement data from schools using the strategies in four states. In vignettes and testimonials, teachers who completed SREB professional development on MDC share how they have grown as teachers and how their students’ understanding of math concepts has improved.

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Math Classroom Strategies Steal the Show

David Raney — Mon, 05 Mar 2018 15:00:00 +0000

Joy Hofmeister, Oklahoma State Superintendent of Schools, visited Moore High School in December to look at its technology program. And she did, but she also got a pleasant surprise when principal Mike Coyle showed her to an Algebra 2 classroom.

Mathematics department chair Nancy Nix reported that the superintendent was “blown away by the level of student engagement and mathematical discourse.”

Engaging Students in Deeper Learning Through Powerful Literacy and Mathematics Assignments

Diane James — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:46:00 +0000

Too many students graduate high school without the foundational literacy and math skills needed to succeed in postsecondary education and careers. This can change if students are exposed to literacy and math practices that expose them to the types of grade-level assignments that will advance their achievement and prepare them for college and careers.

SREB offers professional development to teachers in powerful literacy and math practices that produce positive results. Read about survey results of more than 37,000 students.

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