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.
Refining and Reimagining One's Coaching Practice
Refining and Reimagining One's Coaching Practice
Chapter Elements
- Case: Learning About Counting, Learning About Coaching
- Focus Questions Activity
- Planning Activity: Cultivating Collaborative Study
Case Description
In Learning About Counting, Learning About Coaching, the coach-author describes a Kindergarten classroom observation, interviews with several students as they engage in counting activities, and her subsequent questions about effective coaching debriefs. Elaine, a coach with past experience as a high school math teacher, becomes intrigued with the varied strategies for counting in Kindergarten, and over the course of one classroom visit, she is bursting with questions and a new appreciation for the children's effort involved in sorting out counting as an idea. She describes the ensuing teacher debrief, which, she soon realizes, falls short of its ...
