Learning to Lead Mathematics Professional Development
Description
Designed for mathematics professional development leaders, this set of case-based leadership materials helps build facilitation skills, content knowledge, and pedagogy to design and implement effective staff development programs.
This multimedia kit includes a user’s guide, as well as 2 DVDs with 44 seminars arranged into 7 modules containing notes, video clips, participant work, PowerPoint slides, and much more. The modules focus on mathematics and facilitation skills, reflect research on adult learning, and model a community of practice.
Unlike a typical guide for a specific professional development program, these materials focus on facilitation issues likely to be encountered in a variety of mathematics professional development situations including:
- Managing productive mathematical discussions
- Being mindful of equity issues in mathematics teaching
- Selecting appropriate mathematical tasks
- Deepening teachers’ knowledge of mathematics
This kit is ideal for those charged with supporting teacher leaders and others who lead mathematics professional development. Potential users include curriculum leaders, math-science partnership staff, university-district partnership staff, and mathematics teacher educators.
WestEd staff members work with groups of leaders to help develop and refine their skills, sensibilities, and long-term capacities enabling them to design and implement quality mathematics professional development.
Resource Details
Product Information
ISBN: 978-1-4129-1504-5Copyright: 2007
Format: Multimedia
Pages: 104
Publisher: Corwin Press
Available Previews
Praise for this Resource
“The most usable, unique, and rigorous professional development tools to come along for mathematics. An effective professional development tool to nurture teacher leaders.”
April Cherrington, Mathematics Coordinator, San Mateo County Office of Education, San Mateo, California“A valuable contribution to the field. These materials both acknowledge the complexity of the work and provide a carefully designed and sequenced curriculum for understanding it.”
Lew Romagnano, Professor of Mathematical Sciences, The Metropolitan State College of Denver, Denver, Colorado
Related Resources
-
Making Mathematics Accessible to English Learners: A Guidebook for Teachers, Grades 6-12
"This book's clear, understandable writing style makes complex ideas accessible. The authors explain how teaching strategies that are good for English learners are good for all diverse learners — this principle is the heart of equity." — Kathlan Latimer, Lecturer at University of California, Davis, CalTeach/MAST Program
$17.47 -
Mathematics Teacher Noticing: Seeing Through Teachers’ Eyes
Mathematics Teacher Noticing is the first book to examine research on the particular type of noticing done by teachers — how teachers pay attention to and make sense of what happens in the complexity of instructional situations. In the midst of all that is happening in a classroom, where do mathematics teachers look, what do they see, and what sense do they make of it?
$59.95 -
Designing Professional Development for Teachers of Science and Mathematics (3rd Edition)
With an inspiring blend of theory and practical wisdom, this expanded edition demonstrates how to design professional development for teachers that is directly linked to improving student learning.
$47.95
Stay Connected
Subscribe to the E-Bulletin and receive regular updates on research, free resources, solutions, and job postings from WestEd.
Your download will be available after you subscribe, or choose no thanks.
