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Discussion Questions from "Improving High School Math Performance: Solutions for a Vexing Problem", Center for Strengthening the Teaching Profession, October 2008

We're working with the Center to arrange a series of webinar meetings built around these discussion questions (you can read or download the report from the "Research Reports" page on their web site).


#1 What are the qualities of effective mathematics instruction? Has your district defined effective instruction?
#2 Why, over the most recent three-year period, do have we have fewer additional teachers with endorsements in high school math?
#3 How do teachers in your school and/or district learn to use a variety of instructional strategies?
#4 How does a teacher set up a learning environment that encourages students to take risks? How does a new math teacher learn to do this?
#5 What resources are available to teachers who want to learn how to differentiate instruction?
#6 What tools do teachers use to understand which students need help, what they're struggling with and what kinds of interventions are necessary?
#7 How do supports for students and teachers contribute to teachers' effectiveness and student achievement? How can we assure that all schools have the supports students need?
#8 How can assessments be better integrated into everyday instruction?



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These are all great questions but I'd like to focus initially on a classroom teacher audience/discussion, so I think some are more relevant and appropriate than others for that group; my personal favorites would be 4, 8, 3, 7(not the second part of it), and 5, in that order. I don't think most teachers would have a good sense of 2 (opinions, perhaps, but probably not much evidence), and 1 is an interesting question but a bit nebulous (although that quality might also mean it would spark a provocative discussion).
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