ROUNDING UP: SEASON 5 | EPISODE 6

Planning and teaching with a curriculum is a challenging process. It requires teachers to understand the relationship between the design of a lesson and the stated learning goal, and to recognize the role individual lessons play in a unit of study. What types of practices and protocols can help teachers navigate this important work?

Joining us to discuss this question are MLC Director of Professional Learning Corey Drake as well as Jamila Riser and Lynsey Gibbons, two of the architects of the Transforming and Understanding Professional Learning (TUPL) project at the University of Delaware.

BIOGRAPHIES

Dr. Lynsey Gibbons is an associate professor specializing in mathematics education at the University of Delaware. Her research focuses on designing for, facilitating, and examining teacher learning; and identifying tools and resources to support instructional leaders and teacher educators.

Dr. Jamila Riser is a mathematics educator, professional learning leader, and researcher with more than 40 years of experience supporting teachers, instructional coaches, administrators, and state leaders in strengthening mathematics teaching and learning.

RESOURCES

The Teaching Gap: Best Ideas from the World's Teachers for Improving Education in the Classroom book by James W. Stigler & James Hiebert

Discretionary spaces research by Deborah Loewenberg Ball

"Theories of Action Needed to Guide Emerging Models for Professional Learning" journal article by Lynsey K. Gibbons, James Hiebert, and Kelly McKie

The NTCM article Lynsey Gibbons mentioned is in press; the link will be added here once it is available. To be informed when the article is published, email podcast@mathlearningcenter.org.

CHAPTERS

00:00 - Introduction • The TUPL Project

02:37 - High-Quality Instructional Materials & Preservice Teachers

07:12 - Critical Moments & Learning Goals

16:06 - What Planning for Critical Moments Looks & Sounds Like

20:49 - Collaboratively Determining Learning Goals & Next Steps

27:47 - Pacing & Discretionary Spaces

33:31 - Resources, Protocols & Questions to Consider

42:14 - Wrapping Up: Engage with Rounding Up

TRANSCRIPT

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