Teacher Facilitation

Overview

Facilitation means how the teacher builds discourse with students around math ideas.

 

Responsiveness

Effective teaching of math uses evidence of student thinking to assess progress toward understanding and adjust instruction in order to support and extend learning.

 

Student Errors

Effective math teaching facilitates discussion among students, building shared understanding of mathematical ideas. Students analyze and compare approaches.

 

Questioning

Effective math teaching uses purposeful questions to assess and advance students’ reasoning and sense making about important mathematical ideas and relationships.

 

Connections

Meaningful experiences that are connected to prior knowledge increase children’s confidence, competence, and interest in math.

Teachers should connect math language and symbols to quantities and actions in the world.