1 / 12

Creating Standards-Based Math Units: A Guide for Elementary Educators

This comprehensive guide helps elementary educators develop math units aligned with national, state, and local standards, emphasizing enduring understandings. Learn how to design units that prioritize essential content and foster student learning. Discover strategies for vertical alignment and effective teaching practices. Enhance your math curriculum development skills with this practical resource.

hank
Download Presentation

Creating Standards-Based Math Units: A Guide for Elementary Educators

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Writing Standards-Based Elementary Mathematics Units Sarah Hancock Sara Levine Kathy Stroud

  2. Introductions • Who are you? • Why are you here? • Who are we?

  3. Beginning to write your unit • Our units should be based on national math content strands and standards - not textbook resources • Units should be planned using a hierarchy of standards - national, state, textbook

  4. National Standards • National Council of Teachers of Mathematics http://www.nctm.org • Principles and Standards for School Mathematics http://standards.nctm.org/ • NCTM Curriculum Focal Points Focal Points

  5. State • Missouri Mathematics Learning Goalshttp://www.dese.mo.gov/divimprove/curriculum/math/ • Missouri Grade Level Expectationshttp://www.dese.mo.gov/divimprove/curriculum/GLE/MAgle2.0.html

  6. Local • Textbook • Investigations

  7. Clarifying Content Priorities • Discriminating among standards • Big Ideas and Enduring Understandings (EU) • Important to know and do (Need to know) • Worth being familiar with (Nice to know)

  8. Modeling - what you really do! • Find standards from national, state, and local resources • Isolate the standards • Sort standards

  9. Guided Practice • Step 1 - find standards for your grade and cut them apart • Step 2 - eliminate duplicate ideas - keep the one with broader wording • Step 3 - sort using “enduring, need, nice” and tape on your chart - chunk like items in the same area • Step 4 - form Enduring Understandings

  10. Vertical Alignment • Identify flow of EUs from grade to grade • Create matrix of EUs and EQs

  11. Teaching and Tuning • How do the interactions you have with your students help you tune your unit?

  12. Questions

More Related