Accelerating K–8 Math Instruction
A Comprehensive Guide to Helping All Learners
Nicki Newton (Author), Melanie Harding (Foreword by)
9780807768167
Paperback / softback, published 26 May 2023
208 pages
25.4 x 18 x 1 cm, 0.367 kg
"This book would be an asset to classroom teachers, math specialists, and math intervention teachers in elementary and middle schools."—Teachers College Record
Schools have been using various approaches to address the struggles that students are having with mathematics learning that have been compounded by the pandemic. There is an overwhelming consensus by both educators and researchers that we need to adapt acceleration rather than remediation as a tool to counteract the challenges that students currently face. Acceleration is about equity, which allows all our students to access an engaging, standards-based, academically rigorous, grade-level curriculum. In this book, educational consultant Dr. Nicki Newton shows K–8 teachers how to accelerate mathematics instruction so that all students learn and work on grade level, receive the right scaffolding when they need it, and feel a sense of achievement and success. Educators will in turn experience lower frustration and the joy of helping students thrive. Taking a deep dive into in-school acceleration, chapters address research, planning, assessment, pedagogy, teaching math vocabulary, lesson planning, goal setting and motivation, and action planning. Readers will learn how to use acceleration to get everybody motivated to learn and to create pathways of achievement.
Book Features:
- Unpacks accelerating instruction as a way of saying "everybody is invited to this party."
- Looks at how acceleration provides a pathway to helping academically challenged students achieve and move in step with their grade-level standards.
- Offers detailed ways to plan, implement, and evaluate accelerated math lessons in grades K–8.
- Provides numerous tools, templates, and strategies so readers can use ideas right away.
- Contents (Tentative)
- Foreword
- Acknowledgment
- Introduction
- Acceleration Is Not Remediation
- Phrases We Need to Know
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- 1. Research on Acceleration
- What Is Acceleration? What Is the Shift?
- Why Do We Accelerate?
- What Are the Benefits of Accelerating?
- How Do We Accelerate?
- Summary
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- 2. Unpacking Prior Knowledge: Assessment as the Key to Acceleration
- The Importance of Prior Knowledge
- What Prior Knowledge Should Be Prioritized?
- Trickiness of Prior Knowledge
- The Role of Prior Knowledge in Accelerating Math
- Explicitly Tapping into Prior Knowledge
- Activating Prior Knowledge Posters
- Metacognition
- Graphic Organizers to Tap into Prior Knowledge
- Schema/Prior Knowledge Maps
- Summary
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- 3. Acceleration and the Teaching of Math Vocabulary
- Directly Teaching the Vocabulary
- Practicing the Vocabulary
- Weaving the Vocabulary Throughout the Lesson
- Summary
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- 4. Acceleration Lesson Plan Format
- Instruction Plan
- Assessment Plan
- Progress Monitoring
- Keeping Track Throughout the Lesson
- Planning Checklists
- Reflecting on the Acceleration Process
- Summary
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- 5. Acceleration and Pedagogy
- Eight Recommendations for Mathematical Intervention
- Explicit and Systematic Instruction
- Math Intervention Lesson
- Distributed and Deliberate Practice
- Visualization
- Manipulatives
- Diagrams and Graphic Organizers
- Visuals for Word Problems
- Number Paths and Number Lines
- Graphic Organizers
- Visual Displays
- Choosing the Best Graphic Organizers
- Word Problems
- Fluency
- Math Think Alouds
- Emergent Bilinguals
- Building Mathematical Proficiency
- Math Practices and Processes
- Professional Development
- Summary
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- 6. Acceleration: A Primary Classroom Example
- Jamal
- A Week of Scaffolding the Bridging 10 Strategy
- Tracking a 1-Week Acceleration Cycle
- A Week of Acceleration
- Evaluating the Acceleration Cycle
- Supporting the Acceleration Cycle
- Summary
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- 7. Acceleration: An Upper Elementary Example
- Lucy
- Two Weeks of Scaffolding Division: Big Division Ideas
- Tracking a Two-Week Acceleration Cycle
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- 8. Acceleration: A Middle School Example
- Mario
- Learning Trajectory of Division
- Two Weeks of Scaffolding Fraction Division: Big Fraction Ideas
- Tracking a Two-Week Acceleration Cycle
- Prior Knowledge: Trace of Dividing Fractions by Fractions
- Lesson 1: Dividing a Whole Number by a Fraction
- Lesson 2: Dividing a Whole Number by Any Fraction
- Dividing a Unit Fraction by a Whole Number
- Dividing a Fraction by a Fraction
- Progress Monitoring
- Daily Exit Slips
- Example of Mapping an Acceleration Cycle
- Reflecting on the Acceleration Cycle
- Supporting the Acceleration Cycle
- Summary
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- 9. Connecting Progress Monitoring, Goal Setting, and Motivation
- Progress Monitoring for Acceleration
- Goal Setting
- Student Goal Setting
- High Quality Feedback and Motivation
- Motivation and Growth Mindset
- Summary
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- Epilogue. Acceleration in Action: A Classroom Example
- Christine King
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- References
- About the Author
