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Cultivating a Math Coaching Practice - Book Cover Look Inside

Cultivating a Math Coaching Practice

A Guide for K-8 Math Educators
By: Amy Morse

Foreword by Deborah Schifter

Deepen your understanding of math coaching practices!

Recognizing the importance of math coaching as a support for teachers, this case-based resource helps math coaches and administrators develop their knowledge of math teaching and learning as well as hone their coaching skills. Field-tested in a number of school districts nationwide, this concise guide presents readers with firsthand accounts of coaching practices, cases that highlight a variety of mathematics and coaching issues, and:

  • Math activities that strengthen a coach's content knowledge
  • Planning activities to support thoughtful coach-teacher interactions
  • A detailed facilitator's guide for staff developers leading professional development for math coaches

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Cultivating a Math Coaching Practice - Book Cover Look Inside
Product Details
  • Grade Level: K-6
  • ISBN: 9781412971065
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Year: 2009
  • Page Count: 216
  • Publication date: April 22, 2009
Price: $42.95
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Description

Description

"This new resource draws on cases of coaching practice to provide grounded opportunities for communities of math coaches to strengthen their practice. It is an exciting and important resource for anyone responsible for the professional development of math coaches."
—Linda Ruiz Davenport, Senior Program Director of Elementary Mathematics
Boston Public Schools, MA

"Written case studies of math coaching are essential tools to facilitate the professional development of our mathematics coaches who work hand-in-hand with over 200 schools in our district."
—Lance Menster, Manager of Elementary Mathematics
Houston Independent School District, TX

Deepen your understanding of math coaching practices!

Given the current demands of a math teaching practice, this case-based resource helps math coaches, prospective coaches, and administrators develop their knowledge of math content, hone their coaching skills, and enhance their ability to provide professional development for teachers in Grades K–8.

Field-tested in a number of school districts nationwide, this concise guide presents authentic accounts of coaching practice, dilemmas, and insights. The cases, written by practicing math coaches, emphasize developing a deep understanding of mathematics, analyzing students' ideas and teachers' beliefs about learning, and cultivating teacher learning and growth. Amy Morse provides:

  • Math activities that strengthen a coach's math content knowledge
  • Planning activities to support thoughtful coach-teacher interactions
  • A detailed facilitator's guide for staff developers leading professional development opportunities for math coaches, providing a detailed agenda, specific examples of participants' questions, and facilitator responses

Cultivating a Math Coaching Practice gives math leaders the tools to help teachers create quality math programs and bolster student achievement.


Key features

  • Unique case-based approach presents readers with authentic accounts of coaching practice, dilemmas, and insights
  • Cases emphasize the following themes: mathematics for teaching, analyzing students' ideas and teachers' beliefs about learning, issues of authority in coaching, and avenues for cultivating collaboration with teachers and principals toward refining teaching practices.
  • Each case is accompanied by a related math activity to strengthen coach math content knowledge or a planning activity designed to support thoughtful consideration for the coach's next steps, and focus question activities
  • Facilitation notes for session leaders provide a detailed agenda and practical facilitation support. In addition, facilitation notes include specific examples of participants' questions and ideas and facilitator responses
  • Cases and support materials have been carefully field-tested in a variety of sites
Author(s)

Author(s)

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Amy Morse
Amy Morse is a national leader in designing and providing professional development for math coaches and district leaders responsible for coaching programs. In 1997, Amy joined Education Development Center where, as a project director, she works on teacher and coach development programs. In this capacity she worked for many years with the Boston Public Schools (BPS) Elementary Math Department to design and facilitate the professional development for the district’s elementary math coaches. At present, she directs Professional Development for Math Coaching institutes for EDC’s Math Leadership program http://www.edc.org/MLP. Amy travels extensively, working as a consultant to school districts in various stages of implementing a math coaching strategy and is the director of the Center for the Professional Development of Coaching and Math Leadership at EDC.
Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Foreword by Deborah Schifter

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Introduction

1. Observing, Studying, Analyzing, Planning: Preparing to Coach

Case: Moving Between Models

Math Activity: Models, Fractions, and Percents

Focus Questions Activity

2. Discerning and Responding: Coaching in Real Time

Case: Analyzing Multiplication

Math Activity: How Do You Know?

Focus Questions Activity

3. Strategic Coaching: Goal-Centered Modeling in the Classroom

Case: "It's 30 Less and 90 More": A Case About Listening to Children's Ideas

Math Activity: Angles and Angle Measurement

Focus Questions Activity

4. Reaching a New Teacher: Math as the Conduit

Case: A Case of Coaching: Multiplication and Division Journal Entries

Math Activity: Looking Beneath the Surface

Focus Questions Activity

5. Preparing for Thoughtful Dialogue

Transcript 1

Transcript 2

Transcript 3

6. Purposeful Planning and Facilitation

Case: Coaching in a Group: Moving From 1:1 to 1:?

Focus Questions Activity

Planning Activity: Facilitating Group Learning

7. Refining and Reimagining One's Coaching Practice

Case: Learning About Counting, Learning About Coaching

Focus Questions Activity

Planning Activity: Cultivating Collaborative Study

8. Cultivating Relationships With Administrators and Other Leadership Colleagues

Case: Crafting an Invitation: Shifting From Isolation to Inclusion

Focus Questions Activity

Planning Activity: Considering Collaboration and Communication

9. Taking the Lead as a Teacher of Teachers

Case: Encountering Venus

Math Activity: Exploring Story Problems

Focus Questions Activity

10. Maintaining a Focus on Mathematics

Case: Struggling to Keep Math at the Center

Focus Questions Activity

11. Framing the Connection Between Coach and Teacher Goals

Case: Unsatisfied in the Seminar

Focus Questions Activity

Planning Activity: Meeting the Challenge

12. Examining the Role of Authority in Coaching

Case: Claiming Authority

Focus Questions Activity

Planning Activity: Two Posters Activity

Facilitation Guide

Chapter 1 Facilitation Notes

Chapter 2 Facilitation Notes

Chapter 3 Facilitation Notes

Chapter 4 Facilitation Notes

Chapter 5 Facilitation Notes

Chapter 6 Facilitation Notes

Chapter 7 Facilitation Notes

Chapter 8 Facilitation Notes

Chapter 9 Facilitation Notes

Chapter 10 Facilitation Notes

Chapter 11 Facilitation Notes

Chapter 12 Facilitation Notes

Reviews

Reviews

Quote by Lance Menster, Manager of Elementary Mathematics, Houston Independent School District, TX: “Written case studies of math coaching are essential tools to facilitate the professional development of our mathematics coaches who work hand-in-hand with over 200 schools in our district. We are pleased to have this book developed by Amy Morse and a cadre of math coaches to support our math leadership efforts.”
“Written case studies of math coaching are essential tools to facilitate the professional development of our mathematics coaches who work hand-in-hand with over 200 schools in our district. We are pleased to have this book developed by Amy Morse and a cadre of math coaches to support our math leadership efforts.”
Lance Menster, Manager of Elementary Mathematics
Houston Independent School District, TX
Quote by Linda Ruiz Davenport, Senior Program Director of Elementary Mathematics, Boston Public Schools, MA: "This new resource draws on cases of coaching practice to provide grounded opportunities for communities of math coaches to strengthen their practice. It is an exciting and important resource for anyone responsible for the professional development of math coaches."
"This new resource draws on cases of coaching practice to provide grounded opportunities for communities of math coaches to strengthen their practice. It is an exciting and important resource for anyone responsible for the professional development of math coaches."
Linda Ruiz Davenport, Senior Program Director of Elementary Mathematics
Boston Public Schools, MA

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    Price: $42.95
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    Review Copies

    Review copies may be requested by individuals planning to purchase 10 or more copies for a team or considering a book for adoption in a higher ed course. To request a review copy, contact sales@corwin.com.