The Michigan Mathematics and Science Teacher Leadership Collaborative generated a number of resources to support mathematics instruction and facilitation of professional development for mathematics teachers in the middle grades. As with the entire project, most of these focus on developing deep understanding of content with students. Due to the nature of many of the resources, which were generated through partnerships with Vermont’s OGAP project, some of the resources listed below are not widely available on this website, but are open to MMSTLC participants through the project’s Moodle site.
Overview
• Introduction to MMSTLC professional development
• Goals for MMSTLC professional development
• Professional learning tasks (PLTs)
• Menu of professional learning tasks
Design principles
• Practiced-based approach to professional development
• Mathematical Tasks Framework and practice-based approach
• Why focus on proportionality?
• Why use OGAP?
Facilitation principles
• Norms for “doing” mathematics
• Mathematical knowledge needed for teaching
• Selecting and sequencing of activities
• Routines for using narrative cases
• Routines for analyzing student work
• Protocol–Thinking Through a Session (TTSP)
• Protocol–Analyzing Student Work