Overview
NCTM is in the process of creating a video library to highlight the Eight (8) Effective Math Teaching Practices from
Principles to Actions We are looking for videos in PK–2, 3–5, 6–8, and 9–12 grade bands.
Why Submit a Video?
- Enhance your teacher portfolio.
- Impact teaching and learning in the classroom - inspire others!
- Contribute beyond your classroom, share your expertise with the field. Your video may be used for:
- NCTM Professional Learning offerings
- Improving the profession by sharing your classroom and experiences
- Inspiring other teachers
Submit a Video
Guidelines
- Submit a 3-5 minute clip showcasing one or more of
NCTM’s eight effective teaching practices. Longer video footage will be accepted that we can edit into shorter clips. Please do not submit any videos longer than 10 minutes.
- Although videos do not need to be professionally filmed, we would appreciate the highest quality video that you can capture. (Video Tips and Settings)
- Please make sure that any student dialogue is easily heard.
- You do not have to be an NCTM member to submit a video clip.
- If your video includes students, please obtain and submit student permission forms.
- Your video will be reviewed by a team of volunteers. Not all videos will be added to the video library.
- View a sample video highlighting one of the Effective Teaching Practices:
The Case of Jeffrey Ziegler and the S-Pattern Task.
- *These videos might be exemplars but they were professionally done. We do not expect your videos to be professional videos.
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Effective Teaching Practices
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Establish mathematics goals to focus learning
Effective teaching of
mathematics establishes clear goals for the mathematics that students are
learning, situates goals within learning progressions, and uses the goals to
guide instructional decisions.
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Implement tasks that promote reasoning and problem solving
Effective teaching of
mathematics engages students in solving and discussing tasks that promote
mathematical reasoning and problem solving and allow multiple entry points
and varied solution strategies.
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Use and connect mathematical representations
Effective teaching of mathematics
engages students in making connections among mathematical representations to
deepen understanding of mathematics concepts and procedures and as tools for
problem solving.
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Facilitate meaningful mathematical discourse
Effective teaching of mathematics
facilitates discourse among students to build shared understanding of
mathematical ideas by analyzing and comparing student approaches and
arguments.
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Pose purposeful questions
Effective teaching of mathematics uses
purposeful questions to assess and advance students’ reasoning and sense
making about important mathematical ideas and relationships. |
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Build procedural fluency from conceptual understanding
Effective teaching of
mathematics builds fluency with procedures on a foundation of conceptual
understanding so that students, over time, become skillful in using
procedures flexibly as they solve contextual and mathematical problems.
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Support productive struggle in learning mathematics
Effective teaching of
mathematics consistently provides students, individually and collectively,
with opportunities and supports to engage in productive struggle as they
grapple with mathematical ideas and relationships.
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Elicit and use evidence of student thinking
Effective teaching of mathematics uses
evidence of student thinking to assess progress toward mathematical
understanding and to adjust instruction continually in ways that support and
extend learning.
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