Plan, focus, and lead:
Your toolkit for inspiring math teachers
Math coaches wear many hats. You think on your feet and have to invent, react,
and respond—often without time to prepare—in a myriad of professional contexts.
What’s your go-to resource for support?
Meet Everything You Need For Mathematics Coaching: Tools, Plans, and a Process
That Works for Any Instructional Leader. This one-stop, comprehensive toolkit
for improving mathematics instruction and learning is designed for busy math
coaches and teacher leaders who often have to rely on their own competencies.
Using the Leading for Mathematical Proficiency Framework, the authors position
student outcomes as the focus of all professional work and connect the Eight
Mathematical Practices for students with NCTM’s Eight Effective Teaching
Practices to help you guide teachers toward growing mathematics proficiency in
their classrooms.
This hands-on resource
details critical coaching and teaching actions, and offers nearly a hundred
tools for:
- Shifting classroom practice in a way that leads to
student math proficiency and understanding of mathematical concepts.
- Honing in on key areas, including content knowledge and
worthwhile tasks, student engagement, questioning and discourse, analysis
of student work, formative assessment, support for emergent language
learners and students with special needs, and more.
- Navigating a coaching conversation.
- Planning and facilitating professional learning
communities.
- Finding a focus for professional development or a
learning cycle.
- Making connections between professional learning
activities, teaching, and student learning.
- Using the coaching cycle—plan, gather data, reflect—to
build trust and rapport with teachers.
With examples from the
field, a comprehensive list of resources for effective coaching, and a plethora
of tools you can download and share with teachers, this toolkit is your
must-have guide to designing a professional learning plan and leading with
clarity and purpose.