Toward Excellence in K-8 Mathematics (1997) / Chapter Skim
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Recommendations for Improving Teaching
Recommendations for Improving Teaching
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With the advent of the NCTM Standards, new state frameworks, and new state-level eighth grade assessments, as well newly developed instructional materials, the mathematical responsibilities of these teachers have increased significantly. The recommended curricular topics for the middle grades now include a much greater emphasis on patterns and functions, algebra, and areas of statistics, probability, geometry, and measurement (NCTM, ~ 9894.
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Depar~nent of Education could jointly commission papers about the role of content knowledge in teaching effectiveness and disseminate them widely to teacher preparation institutions. Enhance mathematics professional development experiences for preservice and inservice middle grades mathematics teachers.
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Additional professional development could be centered around helping teachers understand the nature and scoring of extended response items. For the proposed national test to be a useful tool, it must be set in a broader assessment context that includes classroom assessment consonant with it, and with the K-S reforms.
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