Professional Development

- Principles to Actions (NCTM)

Learning should focus on developing understanding of concepts and procedures through problem solving, reasoning and discourse.
All students need a range strategies/approaches from which to choose in solving problems.
Students can learn through solving contextual and non-contextual problems.
The role of the teacher is to engage students in tasks that promote reasoning/problem solving, and facilitate discourse that moves students toward a shared understanding of mathematics.
The role of the student is to engage in sense making of math, by using varied strategies and representations, justifying solutions, making connections, and considering the reasoning of others.
An effective teacher provides students with appropriate challenge, encourages perseverance in solving problems, and supports productive struggle in learning math.

Craft and execute units and lessons that are goal driven, by content standards and standards for mathematical practice.
Implement tasks that promote reasoning/problem solving, allowing for multiple entry points and varied solution strategies.
Use and connect mathematical representations to deepen understanding of math concepts and procedures and as tools for problem solving.
Facilitate meaningful discourse among students to build shared understanding of ideas, by analyzing and comparing student approaches and arguments.
Pose purposeful questions to assess and advance students’ reasoning and sense making.
Effectively support productive struggle as students grapple with mathematical ideas and relationships.
Elicit and use evidence of student thinking to drive their instruction.
Differentiate their math instruction appropriately to meet the needs of struggling and advanced learners.

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