Exemplary practices for secondary math teachers /
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| Author / Creator: | Posamentier, Alfred S. |
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| Imprint: | Alexandria, Va. : Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, c2007. |
| Description: | viii, 231 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6419144 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. Starting Out as a Math Teacher Today
- To Whom Can a New Teacher Turn for Advice?
- What to Expect from Your Immediate Supervisor
- What Happens When You Close the Classroom Door?
- How Is Teaching Mathematics Now Different from When You Went to School?
- The Impact of Various Position Papers and Documents
- 2. The Teaching Assignment
- Is Your Textbook the Curriculum?
- Differentiation Within the Curriculum
- How Do You Get Ideas to Teach Something Beyond the Textbook?
- 3. Your Room as a Math Lab
- Arranging Your Room to Support Student Learning
- Technology in the Mathematics Classroom
- Creating a Mathematics Library in the Classroom
- 4. Using Your Textbook Effectively
- The Teacher's Edition
- Teacher's Edition Features
- How You Should Use Your Textbook
- Building a Personal Library of Textbooks and Other Math Books
- Selecting a New Text
- 5. Designing an Effective Lesson Plan
- What Are the Components of a Lesson Plan?
- Planning Paths of Differentiated Instruction
- Planning Group Work in the Mathematics Classroom
- Teacher-Centered Versus Student-Centered Instructional Models
- Solving Systems of Equations Using the Developmental Lesson Model and the Workshop Model
- Designing the Homework Assignment
- Routines for Checking Homework
- The Importance of Planning Your Board Work
- Incorporating Technology into Your Lessons
- Planning a Series of Lessons (Unit Planning)
- 6. Some Specific Ideas for Teaching Certain Lessons
- Angle Measurement with a Circle by Moving the Circle
- Sum of an Arithmetic Progression
- Introducing the Product of Two Negatives
- Rationalizing the Denominator
- The Pythagorean Theorem
- Introduction to Nonpositive Exponents
- Introducing the Notion of a Function
- Intuition Versus Justification
- Building Confidence in Probability
- Demonstrating the Need to Set Up a Sample Space in Probability
- Introducing the Law of Sines
- How to Use Questions Effectively-Or the Art of Classroom Questioning
- 7. Driving the Lesson with Challenging Problems
- Getting the Lesson Started
- Motivating the Lesson
- Concluding the Lesson
- 8. Reasoning and Problem Solving
- Teaching Problem Solving
- Where to Find Problems
- Problem of the Week
- Review of the Process
- 9. The Responsibility of Assessment
- Evaluative Assessment
- Diagnostic Assessment
- Designing the Classroom Test
- Informing Students of Their Grades
- Improving Their Test Scores
- Assessing Your Assessment
- The Class Did Poorly-Should You Curve Your Exam?
- Testing Students of Varying Ability Levels
- Handling Absentees on Test Days
- Comprehensive Assessment
- 10. Beyond the Classroom: Extracurricular Activities and Keeping Up with the Profession
- Extracurricular Activities
- Improving Your Professional Practice
- Appendix. What a Math Teacher Has to Know About Special Education
- Notes
- References and Resources
- Index
- About the Authors