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Cultivating Engagement and Belonging in Secondary Mathematics
Engage students in learning mathematics while cultivating a sense of belonging. This helpful guide for secondary mathematics teachers shows you how to shape equitable classrooms by evaluating beliefs and practices that keep students and teachers stuck. Research-backed strategies and personal stories illustrate effective ways to resolve unproductive power dynamics, promote emotional literacy, and create a classroom environment conducive to optimal learning.
This book will help secondary mathematics teachers:
- Develop strategies to discern the reasons students are struggling with mathematics
- Learn sustainable methods for perceiving unasked questions and target solutions focused on underlying needs
- Navigate challenging classroom behavior
- Cultivate a supportive classroom environment and reframe zero-sum interactions with students
- Evaluate traditional grading and assessments and reform current practices to align with research-based best practice and students’ best interests
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction: Teacher, Where You From?
Chapter 1: I Don’t Have a Pencil
Chapter 2: When Am I Ever Going to Use This?
Chapter 3: Not Today, Ms. Lenhardt
Chapter 4: I’m Always in Trouble!
Chapter 5: I’m Not a Math Person
Chapter 6: I Don’t Give Grades; My Students Earn Them
Chapter 7: If Only Students Knew Their Facts
Chapter 8: I Have 250 Students Every Semester. I Can’t Possibly…
Epilogue
Appendix A: Research Influences
Appendix B: Sources for Mathematics Lessons and Professional Learning
REPRODUCIBLES
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
SUGGESTED RESOURCES
Books
- DuFour, R., DuFour, R., Eaker, R., Many, T. W., & Mattos, M. (2016). Learning by doing: A handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work (3rd ed.). Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
