Accelerating K–8 Math Instruction - Nicki Newton

Accelerating K–8 Math Instruction

A Comprehensive Guide to Helping All Learners

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
208 Seiten
2023
Teachers' College Press (Verlag)
978-0-8077-6816-7 (ISBN)
43,55 inkl. MwSt
Shows K-8 teachers how to accelerate mathematics instruction so that all students learn and work on grade level, receive the right scaffolding when they need it, and feel a sense of achievement and success. Educators will in turn experience lower frustration and the joy of helping students thrive.
Schools have been using various approaches to address the pandemic-related struggles that students are experiencing with mathematics. There is an overwhelming consensus among both educators and researchers that we need to adopt acceleration rather than remediation as a tool to counteract the challenges that students currently face. Acceleration is about equity, which allows all our students to access an engaging, standards-based, academically rigorous, grade-level curriculum. In this book, educational consultant Dr. Nicki Newton shows K–8 teachers how to accelerate mathematics instruction so that all students learn and work on grade level, receive the right scaffolding when they need it, and feel a sense of achievement and success. Educators will in turn experience less frustration and the joy of helping students thrive. Including numerous strategies, tools, and downloadable templates, this book addresses research, planning, assessment, pedagogy, teaching math vocabulary, lesson planning, goal setting and motivation, and action planning. Readers will learn how to use acceleration to get everybody motivated to learn and to create pathways of achievement.


Book Features:




Unpacks accelerating instruction as a way of saying “everybody is invited to this party.”
Looks at how acceleration provides a pathway to helping academically challenged students achieve and move in step with their grade-level standards.
Offers detailed ways to plan, implement, and evaluate accelerated math lessons in grades K–8.
Provides strategies, tools, and downloadable templates so readers can use ideas right away.

Nicki Newton is an education consultant (drnickinewton.com) who works with schools and districts around the United States and Canada on K–8 math curriculum (including best practices, guided math, and math centers) as well as curriculum mapping. She has taught elementary school, middle school, and graduate school.

Contents (Tentative)


Foreword


Acknowledgment


Introduction

Acceleration Is Not Remediation

Phrases We Need to Know




1. Research on Acceleration

What Is Acceleration? What Is the Shift?

Why Do We Accelerate?

What Are the Benefits of Accelerating?

How Do We Accelerate?

Summary




2. Unpacking Prior Knowledge: Assessment as the Key to Acceleration

The Importance of Prior Knowledge

What Prior Knowledge Should Be Prioritized?

Trickiness of Prior Knowledge

The Role of Prior Knowledge in Accelerating Math

Explicitly Tapping into Prior Knowledge

Activating Prior Knowledge Posters

Metacognition

Graphic Organizers to Tap into Prior Knowledge

Schema/Prior Knowledge Maps

Summary




3. Acceleration and the Teaching of Math Vocabulary

Directly Teaching the Vocabulary

Practicing the Vocabulary

Weaving the Vocabulary Throughout the Lesson

Summary




4. Acceleration Lesson Plan Format

Instruction Plan

Assessment Plan

Progress Monitoring

Keeping Track Throughout the Lesson

Planning Checklists

Reflecting on the Acceleration Process

Summary




5. Acceleration and Pedagogy

Eight Recommendations for Mathematical Intervention

Explicit and Systematic Instruction

Math Intervention Lesson

Distributed and Deliberate Practice

Visualization

Manipulatives

Diagrams and Graphic Organizers

Visuals for Word Problems

Number Paths and Number Lines

Graphic Organizers

Visual Displays

Choosing the Best Graphic Organizers

Word Problems

Fluency

Math Think Alouds

Emergent Bilinguals

Building Mathematical Proficiency

Math Practices and Processes

Professional Development

Summary




6. Acceleration: A Primary Classroom Example

Jamal

A Week of Scaffolding the Bridging 10 Strategy

Tracking a 1-Week Acceleration Cycle

A Week of Acceleration

Evaluating the Acceleration Cycle

Supporting the Acceleration Cycle

Summary




7. Acceleration: An Upper Elementary Example

Lucy

Two Weeks of Scaffolding Division: Big Division Ideas

Tracking a Two-Week Acceleration Cycle




8. Acceleration: A Middle School Example

Mario

Learning Trajectory of Division

Two Weeks of Scaffolding Fraction Division: Big Fraction Ideas

Tracking a Two-Week Acceleration Cycle

Prior Knowledge: Trace of Dividing Fractions by Fractions

Lesson 1: Dividing a Whole Number by a Fraction

Lesson 2: Dividing a Whole Number by Any Fraction

Dividing a Unit Fraction by a Whole Number

Dividing a Fraction by a Fraction

Progress Monitoring

Daily Exit Slips

Example of Mapping an Acceleration Cycle

Reflecting on the Acceleration Cycle

Supporting the Acceleration Cycle

Summary




9. Connecting Progress Monitoring, Goal Setting, and Motivation

Progress Monitoring for Acceleration

Goal Setting

Student Goal Setting

High Quality Feedback and Motivation

Motivation and Growth Mindset

Summary




Epilogue. Acceleration in Action: A Classroom Example

Christine King




References


About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum
Vorwort Melanie Harding
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 178 x 254 mm
Gewicht 295 g
Themenwelt Schulbuch / Wörterbuch
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulpädagogik / Grundschule
ISBN-10 0-8077-6816-2 / 0807768162
ISBN-13 978-0-8077-6816-7 / 9780807768167
Zustand Neuware
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