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Rigor put within reach!
Rigor: Everyone is talking about it, and now the Common Core has made it policy. But how exactly do you design a math classroom where achieving that goal is guaranteed? This first-of-its-kind guidebook will help teachers and leaders across the grades make that goal a reality. You'll not only come to understand once and for all what rigor is, you'll also learn how to consistently apply that ideal from math classroom to math classroom.
Using their Proficiency Matrix as a framework, Hull, Harbin Miles, and Balka offer proven strategies for successful implementation of the CCSS mathematical practices—with practical tools you can use right away. Whether working individually or as part of a team, you'll learn how to: Define rigor in the context of each mathematical practice; Identify and overcome potential issues and obstacles, including differentiating instruction, monitoring classrooms, and using data; Relate specific roles and goals for students, teachers, math leaders, school leaders, and collaborative teams; Use assessment tools to guide work and monitor progress
With action checklists and record sheets, self-assessments, a teacher planning guide, and much more, this is the only resource you need to guide your team to rigor—and your students to achievement.
Inputs and Outcomes
Readers have extensively studied mathematical rigor, how to attain rigor, possible problems, and workable solutions. In the following sections, we highlight changing the system. Schools are highly developed operating systems with standardized structures and norms. For real change to occur, the system (operating orders and norms) must change. In this respect, schools may be viewed as functions. Functions have inputs and outcomes. Leaders and leadership teams determine the inputs and then monitor outcomes.
The focus of this book is on implementing the Standards for Mathematical Practice, with the goal of instituting mathematical rigor. To successfully support the implementation of the Practices and achieve the goal, leaders and leadership teams are provided suggestions for specific actions that need to happen. Two of ...
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