Mathematics Instruction and Tasks in a PLC at Work: (Develop a Standards-Based Math Curriculum in Your Professional Learning Community)

Part of the Every Student Can Learn Mathematics series

Improve your students' comprehension and perseverance in mathematics. This user-friendly book is divided into two parts, each covering a key team action for mathematics instruction in a PLC at Work™. First you'll examine high-quality research-affirmed math lesson design elements. Then you'll learn how to implement them within your lesson routines and activities. The book features team discussion tools, sample lesson designs, strategies for improving student discourse, online resources for instructional support, and more.

Implement instructional strategies and methods of teaching mathematics, in a professional learning community:

• Plan for the use of balanced rigorous mathematical practices and routines to teach each content standard during core instruction.
• Identify mathematics content standards students must learn in a unit and the appropriate math activities and tasks needed to develop understanding, application, and fluency progressions of mathematical concepts.
• Understand the importance of communicating the why of mathematical skills and essential learning standards to students.
• Implement instructional strategies for math that ensure the formative learning of all students during lessons.

Contents:

Introduction

Part I: Team Action 1: Develop High-Quality, Essential, and Balanced Lesson-Design Elements

Chapter 1: Essential Learning Standards: The Why of the Lesson

Chapter 2: Prior-Knowledge Warm-Up Activities

Chapter 3: Academic Language Vocabulary as Part of Instruction

Chapter 4: Lower- and Higher-Level Cognitive Demand Mathematical Task Balance

Chapter 5: Whole-Group Versus Small-Group Discourse Activity Balance

Chapter 6: Lesson Closure for Evidence of Learning

Chapter 7: Mathematics Lesson-Design Tool

Part II: Use Lesson Design Elements to Provide Formative Feedback and Foster Student Perseverance

Chapter 8: Understanding Student Learning and Perseverance: FAST Formative Feedback

Chapter 10: Prior Knowledge Warm Up Activities

Chapter 11: Vocabulary as Part of Instruction: Strategies

Chapter 12: Task Implementation

Chapter 13: Lesson Closure for Evidence of Learning

Chapter 14: Mathematics in a PLC at Work Lesson Design Samples

Chapter 15: A High Quality Tier 1 Mathematics Intervention Response to Lesson Progress

Epilogue

Appendix A

References and Resources

Index

Books in the Every Student Can Learn Mathematics series:

• Mathematics Assessment and Intervention in a PLC at Work™
• Mathematics Instruction and Tasks in a PLC at Work™
• Mathematics Homework and Grading in a PLC at Work™
• Mathematics Coaching and Collaboration in a PLC at Work™