Professional+Reading

Bridging the Gap Between Standards and Achievement http://www.ashankerinst.org/downloads/bridging_gap.pdf
"Those who engage in professional development should be willing to say explicitly what new knowledge and skill educators will learn as a consequence of their participation, how this new knowledge and skill will be manifested in their professional practice, and what specific activities will lead to this learning.
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Paul Cobb - Vanderbuilt University has undertaken research focusing on effective practices that allow improvement in mathematics teaching and learning to be reproduced to scale - translating successful instruction from the classroom to across teams and schools. Cathy Curwood shares her notes from the presentation held in Melbourne on November 7
 * Paul Cobb Presentation**

Mathematics
(This is the reading required for the TaLC Coaches Forum on the 4th September)
 * [[file:Converting mathematics tasks to learning opportunities.rtf]] Sullivan, Clarke and Clarke, 2009**

//**Numeracy in Practice:** Teaching, Learning and Using Mathematics //, Paper No. 18, June 2009, Education Policy and Research Division, DEECD. This paper is a companion volume to //Literacy Teaching and Learning in Victorian Schools. [|Numeracy in Practice]//

**A National Advisory Mathematics Panel** was created to ensure proficiency and knowledge of mathematics into the 21st century throughout the United States. The panel was charged with making recommendations to the President and secretary of Education, using best practice research to advance the teaching and learning of mathematics. This report was released on the 13th march 2008 and contains a list of 45 recommendations that are worth looking at. []

[|A Problem With Problem Solving: Teaching thinking without teaching knowledge] The Mathematics Educator 2007, Vol. 17, No. 2, 7–14 (Look at Page 2, for structures for Problem Solving. (Example used is Tables and Chairs, SNMY)

Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers Standards for Exemplary Teachers of Mathematics. (these standards are the result of extensive research from throughout Australia. They are an excellent resource for discussion.)
 * Decimals:** [[file:longer_is_larger.pdf]]
 * Fractions:** [[file:fractions.pdf]] Some Advice for making the teaching of Fractions a research-based, practical and effective experience in the middle years.

Coaching
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'What works well vs what works best' thinking
Geoff Petty's 'Evidence-based ICT draft (Nov 2007) doc from Rod. Includes an excellent overview of top ten active learning methods from big research samples.