Mathematics Instruction
Prompt:
Pretend you are an instructional leader in a school where all the teachers are teaching mathematics as “stand and deliver.”
Pretend you are an instructional leader in a school where all the teachers are teaching mathematics as “stand and deliver.”
Explain to the teachers the current way they are teaching and why it would be modified.Outline strategies you would employ as an instructional leader to promote change school-wide.
Describe the current instruction in the school (use the Rethinking Teacher Supervision and Evaluation textbook to support your claim).
● What does mathematics instruction looks like in the school? How is the material being taught? Provide an example.
● Why is this type of instruction not beneficial for students?
Explain how instruction should be modified.
● Why is it important for teachers to rethink how they teach mathematics curriculum?
● What strategies would you suggest for the teachers?
● What examples can you provide to illustrate how you would modify instruction from a teacher’s perspective?
Outline strategies you might employ as an instructional leader to modify instruction school-wide.
● Which strategies would you implement first? Why?
● How would you prepare the faculty/the community so that this change can be successfully implemented and sustained?
● What resources would be necessary to implement and sustain this strategy?
Describe the current instruction in the school (use the Rethinking Teacher Supervision and Evaluation textbook to support your claim).
● What does mathematics instruction looks like in the school? How is the material being taught? Provide an example.
● Why is this type of instruction not beneficial for students?
Explain how instruction should be modified.
● Why is it important for teachers to rethink how they teach mathematics curriculum?
● What strategies would you suggest for the teachers?
● What examples can you provide to illustrate how you would modify instruction from a teacher’s perspective?
Outline strategies you might employ as an instructional leader to modify instruction school-wide.
● Which strategies would you implement first? Why?
● How would you prepare the faculty/the community so that this change can be successfully implemented and sustained?
● What resources would be necessary to implement and sustain this strategy?
Guidelines for Submission:
Your paper must be submitted as a two- to three-page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point.Times New Roman font, one-inch margins, and at least three sources cited in APA format.