Preview
DTE modules were designed to support teachers in developing expertise in specific areas of elementary mathematics. Modules integrate four core elements of teacher professional learning including mathematical knowledge for teaching, student thinking, teaching practices, and learning from one’s own practice. Modules build on current research, providing practice-based experiences and routines to help teachers develop increasingly sophisticated and detailed insight into mathematics teaching. Three modules are currently available:
REPRESENTING AND COMPARING FRACTIONS
FRACTIONS
- Mathematics: representation, definition, equivalence, and comparison of fractions
- Teaching: practices of using representations in classroom teaching
- Student thinking: students’ ideas and approaches for representing and comparing fractions
- Learning from practice: professional practices for documenting and analyzing images of blackboards and other public spaces to improve teaching and learning
SUPPORTING REASONING AND EXPLANATIONS
REASONING AND EXPLANATIONS
- Mathematics: using mathematical reasoning, explanations, and language
- Teaching: supporting mathematical practices in the classroom
- Student thinking: examining ways students make sense of and explain mathematics
- Learning from practice: studying the teaching and learning of mathematical practices through video workshops
GEOMETRIC MEASUREMENT AND SPATIAL REASONING
GEOMETRIC MEASUREMENT
- Mathematics: concepts, methods, and tools used in linear, 2D, and 3D measurement
- Teaching: using learning trajectories to assess and analyze curriculum
- Student thinking: understanding trajectories of children’s reasoning about linear, 2D, and 3D measurement
- Learning from practice: studying learning trajectories of one’s own students through the use of anecdotal notes and video
