MATHEMATICS FOR TEACHING to Inform Instructional Quality In Making Sense of Mathematics for Teaching to Inform Instructional Quality, Melissa D. Boston, Amber G. Candela, and Juli K. Dixon provide a compelling process for focusing on and improving the quality of K–12 teachers’ mathematics instruction. The authors present a set of rubrics—the Instructional Quality Assessment (IQA) Mathematics Toolkit— as a framework to focus reflections, conversations, feedback, and the planning and teaching of mathematics. In line with the Making Sense of Mathematics for Teaching series, the tasks, questions, and evidence (TQE) process guides readers in improving the quality of their instruction and building their own understanding of and skill with mathematics.
“I highly recommend Making Sense of Mathematics for Teaching to Inform Instructional Quality for all mathematics teachers and instructional leaders who dare to deeply, and with a critical intentionality, examine their instructional quality. Framed by the tasks, questions, and evidence (TQE) process, this book challenges readers to critically examine their practice using practical, user-friendly, and downloadable Instructional Quality Assessment (IQA) rubrics, observation tools, and summary sheets.”
—Sarah B. Bush Associate Professor, K–12 STEM Education, University of Central Florida
“The IQA toolkit . . . provides a set of accessible rubrics that draw teachers’ attention to aspects of practice that matter most—task selection and implementation, teacher questions, and the quality of student contributions. These research-based tools are perfect for guiding teachers’ planning for and reflection on instruction and have the potential to change the nature of how teachers and their students work in the classroom.”
—Margaret (Peg) Smith Professor Emerita, University of Pittsburgh
Readers will: Use the IQA rubrics as a road map for improving their mathematics instruction
Discover how efficient tasks and improved teacher questioning lead to student success Guide student mastery of the material Watch short, engaging videos of real classrooms in action demonstrating the various strategies throughout the book Visit go.SolutionTree.com/mathematics to download the free reproducibles in this book.
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Apply the TQE process to successfully improve instructional quality
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