The engaging, practice-based curricula listed below provide leadership guides for educators to use as they provide professional development for teachers and administrators working to effectively implement Standards-based curricula such as Investigations. Some developers conduct leadership development seminars to prepare facilitators to implement the professional development curriculum with colleagues.
Relearning to Teach Arithmetic (RTA) is a professional development curriculum designed for use by a group of teachers working together. RTA helps teachers think critically about how their students develop understanding of whole number operations and the implications for instruction. Although addition and subtraction tend to be an emphasis in primary grades, while multiplication and division become the focus in grades 3-5, we recommend that teachers in all elementary grades work together in order to think about how these ideas develop, K-5, across the grades.
Bridges is a professional development curriculum for elementary school teachers implementing Standards-based curricula. Local school personnel can use Bridges to implement approximately 60 two-hour sessions. The curriculum is intended to strengthen teachers' mathematical understanding and confidence, as well as model pedagogical techniques. The modular structure allows staff developers to tailor sessions to their local needs. One Bridges component is focused specifically on Investigations.
Developing
Mathematical Ideas
(DMI)
is a professional development
curriculum designed to
help teachers examine the
major ideas of K-7 mathematics
and how children develop
those ideas. At the heart
of the materials are sets
of classroom episodes (cases)
illustrating student thinking
as described by their teachers.
Participants explore mathematics
in lessons led by facilitators;
share and discuss the work
of their own students;
view and discuss videotapes
of mathematics classrooms;
write their own classroom
episodes; analyze lessons
taken from innovative elementary
mathematics curricula;
and read overviews of related
research.
Click here to learn from authors about DMI curriculum and leadership development, or call 413.538.2063.
Lenses
on Learning (LOL)
is a professional development
curriculum series designed
to help administrators
think deeply about teaching
and learning mathematics.
In the process, they consider
the implications for their
role as administrators
and how to support their
staff when implementing
Standards-based curriculum
such as Investigations.
They are asked to examine
their beliefs, how children
learn, and what teachers
must do to create an environment
that supports each child
as s/he learns mathematics.
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Mathematics Assessment Resources Service (MARS) offers leadership development workshops and professional development curriculum for teacher leaders and others who provide the professional development for mathematics teachers in grades 3-9. Sessions deepen and broaden participant understanding of student learning and prepare leaders to facilitate the same sessions in their local setting, using the same well-developed materials.
Mathematics Education Collaborative (MEC): Engaging Communities in Support of Quality Mathematics in Schools. "MEC Offerings bring communities together in pursuit of and support for high quality 21st Century mathematics programs in schools...and include the following five series...facilitated by a team of expert instructors, each having years of successful experience as a classroom teacher and extensive experience working with adults": Community Engagement, Mathematics, Classroom Connections, Leadership, and Higher Ed Collaborations.