Math Workshop: Five Steps to Implementing Guided Math, Learning Stations, Reflection, and More, 1st edition

Published by Heinemann (June 3, 2022) © 2023

Paperback

ISBN-13: 9780325137506
Math Workshop: Five Steps to Implementing Guided Math, Learning Stations, Reflection, and More
Published 2022

Title overview

Math Workshop: Five Steps to Implementing Guided Math, Learning Stations, Reflection, and More is an essential resource for any teacher or school looking to shift or enhance how math is taught. It includes lesson plan examples and templates that will help you visualise and implement a math workshop model in any classroom.

Successfully implement the transformational math workshop model of instruction through five accessible, manageable steps:

  • Step 1: Understand Math Workshop
  • Step 2: Prepare Your Students for Math Workshop
  • Step 3: Decide Your Math Workshop Structure
  • Step 4: Facilitate Your Math Workshop
  • Step 5: Reflect on and Refine Your Math Workshop
Educators are invited to embrace Math Workshop as their own personal 'instructional coach', first exploring what Jennifer Lempp refers to as 'three buckets' that need to be in place for a highly successful math workshop:
  1. Classroom Arrangement
  2. Routines and Procedures
  3. Mathematics Community

Guidance for Getting Started with Math Workshop

The resource then offers 'Twenty Days to a Classroom Culture That Works', which includes 20 minilessons that support the communication and practice of expectations surrounding the workshop model. From there, it explores three classroom-tested math workshop structures, providing practical ideas for routines, focus lessons, guided math groups, learning stations, and reflections so you can get started with math workshop in your classroom today.

Streaming Video and Reproducibles Included

The streaming video clips invite you inside K-5 classrooms for a seeing-is-believing look at math workshop in action. Seeing clips of actual teachers and students engaged in math workshop is the next best thing to observing the model in a classroom.

Templates, tools, and ideas are included and also available for download.

Table of contents

Step 1 - Understand Math Workshop
An exploration of what Math Workshop is - and is not
  • Chapter 1: Math Workshop: What, Why, and When?
Step 2 - Prepare Your Students for Math Workshop
Best practices for establishing a Math Workshop community
  • Chapter 2: Twenty Days to a Classroom Culture That Works
Step 3 - Decide Your Math Workshop Structure
A focused look at three Math Workshop structures
  • Chapter 3: Task and Share Structure
  • Chapter 4: Focus Lesson, Guided Math, and Learning Stations Structure
  • Chapter 5: Guided Math and Learning Stations Structure
Step 4 - Facilitate Your Math Workshop
A focused look at each of the components in the three Math Workshop structures
  • Chapter 6: Number Sense Routine
  • Chapter 7: Learning Stations
  • Chapter 8: Guided Math
  • Chapter 9: Student Reflection
  • Chapter 10: You're Ready, You're Set, Go!
Step 5 - Reflect on and Refine Your Math Workshop
Additional support
  • Chapter 11: Reflecting on Implementation
  • Chapter 12: Refining Your Practice - FAQs

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