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Study a Module
Plan to Teach
Study a Module
Begin your planning process by familiarizing yourself with the module’s story. Use the following guide to help you review the module as a whole.
Preview the Learning
Module Resource
Read the Overview to preview the learning.
Read the Before This Module and After This Module sections in the Overview to understand the coherence between modules.
Guiding Questions
• What big ideas does the module teach? • How do the topic titles relate to the module title?
What does that tell me about how the concepts are organized? • Which strategies, models, and language will my students use?
• What concepts, skills, and language can I expect my students to bring to the new learning? • How does the work of this module support learning in future modules?
Investigate the Development of Learning
Module Resource
Review the Contents to see the module’s structure.
Read the Why section for insight into the module’s instructional design and pedagogical choices.
Guiding Questions
• How do the lesson objectives relate to the topic titles? What does that tell me about the development of learning across the module? • How many lessons are in the module and in each topic? • How does my school’s calendar work with the number of instructional days?
• What does the Why section tell me about the module’s design? • In what ways does this information change the way
I’m thinking about the content, sequence, models, strategies, and language in this module?
Module Resource
Read the Achievement Descriptors: Overview section to get a quick sense of the major learning in the module.
Preview the additional module resources: • Terminology • Math Past • Materials
Guiding Questions
• What are the Achievement Descriptors for this module? • How do the Achievement Descriptors relate to the content standards?
• What familiar terminology will I reinforce as I teach the module? What new terminology will I introduce as I teach the module? • How does the Math Past provide human and/or historical context for the learning of this module? • What materials do I need to gather for the lessons in this module? What do I need to prepare in advance?
explore the assessment
Module Resource
Read the Achievement Descriptors: Proficiency Indicators section to understand what proficiency looks like in this module.
Preview the Module Assessment to see one way that students may be assessed on their learning.
Review the Observational Assessment Recording Sheet to see what you might expect to see in the classroom as a result of the instruction in this module.
Guiding Questions
• What does proficiency with the content of this module look like? • How will I use this information to evaluate student performance?
• Which content appears on the Module Assessment? • How does the Module Assessment assess the learning in this module? • How do the models, strategies, and language of the module appear in this assessment? • What variety of strategies might students employ? • How do the assessment items add to my understanding of the mathematics this module develops?
• Which content appears on the Observational
Assessment Recording Sheet? • How will I record and assess the learning in this module? • How do the indicators add to my understanding of the mathematics this module develops?
