Summary
Contents
This resource offers math activities, planning activities, and a facilitator’s guide for developing mathematics leaders’ coaching practice and knowledge of math teaching and learning.
Taking the Lead as a Teacher of Teachers
Taking the Lead as a Teacher of Teachers
Chapter Elements
- Case: Encountering Venus
- Math Activity: Exploring Story Problems
- Focus Questions Activity
Case Description
This longer case, written by an experienced math coach, describes a coaching context that unfolds over a series of days. It offers a poignant and intelligent example of a coach who is unafraid to teach a “willing, but far from novice” teacher by giving her homework assignments and setting up opportunities for the teacher to examine and reveal her practice. The case follows the thread of a story of developing collaboration by describing first the introductory meeting with Venus, a teacher of students with special needs, then a math interview with Venus' students, and, finally, debriefs with ...
