What exactly do your students need to know by the end of each unit of mathematics study throughout the school year? This practical resource empowers teacher teams to collectively plan for and deliver highly effective units of study in grades 6-8. The authors clearly outline how to generate essential learning standards, create a team unit calendar, identify prior knowledge, and complete many other essential collaborative tasks. Use this resource to provide intermediate grade-level students with a more equitable mathematics learning experience Understand how to collaboratively plan mathematics units in grades 6-8 as a professional learning community (PLC). Study the seven unit-planning elements and learn how to incorporate each in essential unit design. Review the role of the PLC at Work® process in enhancing student learning and teacher collaboration. Observe three model units, one for each grade, for ratios and proportional reasoning. Receive tools and templates for effective unit planning. Contents: Acknowledgments Table of Contents About the Authors Introduction Part One: Mathematics Unit Planning and Design Elements Chapter 1: Planning for Student Learning of Mathematics in Grades 6-8 Chapter 2: Unit Planning as a Collaborative Mathematics Team Part Two: Ratios and Proportional Reasoning Examples, Grades 6-8 Chapter 3: Grade 6 Unit--Ratios and Rates Chapter 4: Grade 7 Unit--Proportional Reasoning Chapter 5: Grade 8 Unit--Linear Functions Epilogue Appendix A: Create a Proficiency Map Appendix B: Team Checklist and Questions for Mathematics Unit Planning References and Resources Index

Provides specific information on how to transform schools into results-oriented professional learning communities, describing the best practices that have been used by schools nationwide.

Increase student learning with engaging lesson plans and high-level tasks. In this user-friendly guide, mathematics teachers will discover more than 40 strategies for ensuring students learn critical reasoning skills and retain understanding. Each chapter is devoted to a different Standard for Mathematical Practice and offers an in-depth look at why the standard is important for students' understanding of mathematics.

Written specifically for the preservice and inservice middle school math teacher, this practical guide to teaching mathematics to preadolescents draws on the latest research and more than 100 years of combined teaching experience. Taking an empirical focus, the aim of this book is to give the middle school math teacher preparing to enter the classroom what they need, when they need it. Its organization is intuitive, moving from the general/macro to the specific. Preservice and inservice middle school math teacher.

This leader companion to the grade-level teacher guides illustrates how to sustain successful implementation of the Common Core State Standards for mathematics. Discover what students should learn and how they should learn it. Comprehensive research-affirmed analysis tools and strategies will help collaborative teams develop and assess student demonstrations of deep conceptual understanding and procedural fluency.

This teacher guide illustrates how to sustain successful implementation of the Common Core State Standards for mathematics, grades K–2. Discover what students should learn and how they should learn it at each grade level. Comprehensive research-affirmed analysis tools and strategies will help you and your collaborative team develop and assess student demonstrations of deep conceptual understanding and procedural fluency

Build collective teacher efficacy and students' mathematical thinking using the Mathematics in a PLC at Work(TM) lesson-design process. This second edition of the popular Mathematics Instruction and Tasks book guides preK-12 teacher teams in ensuring improved mathematics achievement. Gain new and enhanced understanding of research-affirmed instructional routines, and learn how to efficiently elicit high levels of student engagement and self-efficacy. Implement instructional strategies and methods of teaching mathematics in a professional learning community. This book will help preK-12 mathematics teachers and teacher teams: Identify essential mathematics content standards students learn during a unit Understand the importance of communicating the why of the essential mathematics learning standards to students Plan for the use of balanced rigor and mathematical routines to teach each content standard during instruction Use a balance of appropriate mathematics activities and tasks needed to develop conceptual understanding, procedural fluency, and application of mathematical concepts and skills Implement instructional math routines that ensure the formative learning of all students during lessons Contents: Preface Introduction: The Mathematics at Work(TM) Lesson Design Framework Chapter 1: Essential Learning Standards--The Why of the Lesson Chapter 2: Prior-Knowledge Routines Chapter 3: Mathematics Language Routines Chapter 4: A Balance of Mathematical Tasks Chapter 5: Mathematical Discourse Routines Chapter 6: Lesson Closure Routines Chapter 7: High-Quality Tier 1 Mathematics Intervention Chapter 8: Analyzing the Effectiveness of Mathematics Instruction Epilogue Appendix A Appendix B: Cognitive-Demand-Level Task Analysis Guide Appendix C: Mathematics Instruction and Tasks in a PLC at Work Protocols and Tools