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Virtual Coaching: Choose-Your-Own-Adventure
The best way to improve your skills is with an in-person, personalized coach. However, if you don't have funding for personalized coaching, or just want some resources to consider, try using our free Virtual Coach. Here, you can choose the path that best works for you.
Introduction to Virtual Coaching
On this page, we have actionable next steps to help you and your students. Start with any topic and continue to dig into our resources.
Whether you've been teaching for 2 years or 35 years, we know there is always more to learn in this ever-changing field of education.
After watching each video or reading the recommendations, select the next step of your own path.
Standards for Math Practice
Introduction to Standards for Math Practice
To start, determine which of the 8 standards for math practice will be your focus. If you had to choose only one to focus on in the next 2-3 months, which of these standards would be your priority?
Some educators want to focus on all of the math practices to help their students out, but focusing on just 1 or 2 at a time can be much more manageable.
- Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them (Stop Annotating Word Problems)
- Reason abstractly and quantitatively
- Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others (Writing in Math)
- Model with mathematics
- Use appropriate tools strategically
- Attend to precision
- Look for and make use of structure
- Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning
Student Discourse
Student discourse is a great tool for many purposes:
- Student engagement and motivation
- Low-stakes opportunity for practice of both math and language
- Teachers can use an informal formative assessment
Motivating and Engaging Students
Teachers at all levels ask how they can engage more students. Here are some great ways we have found to do that.
Small Groups
There are many reasons to use small groups at every grade level. That said, sometimes creating an environment that allows students to be productive in those small groups can be a challenge.
Below are some great ideas that have repeatedly worked in many classrooms we work with.
Co-teaching
What works in co-teaching? These strategies have worked in other classrooms.
For Coaches... How Can We Be Most Effective?
So you're a coach? Maybe you are a new coach or maybe you are seasoned. Either way, you are likely hear to improve your ability to help teachers take some next steps. Below, are some great ideas that we have seen continually work to allow teachers to feel validated and motivated to try some new ideas.
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