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Classroom Discussions: Seeing Math Discourse in Action, Grades K–6

Overview

Individual Components

Video Clips of PD Sessions

What People are Saying

Author Bios

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Classroom Discussions: Seeing Math Discourse in Action, Grades K–6 provides preservice and inservice instructors, coaches and facilitators with real, classroom-based video examples that illustrate the principles and practices covered in the authors' best-selling book, Classroom Discussions: Using Math Talk to Help Students Learn, Grade K–6, Second Edition. Ideally the three components – guide, DVD, and book – are used together. The video examples demonstrate how the talk tools described in the book can be used successfully in typical classrooms.

Discussion questions for viewing each video clip

Nancy Anderson, Suzanne Chapin, and Cathy O'Connor
240 pages

ISBN: 978-1-935099-12-3
Price: $229.95


Individual Components
		Watch The accompanying two DVDs organize the seventy-four video clips in two ways for viewing convenience: by chapter and by grade level. The labels on all video clips indicate the section of the facilitator's guide in which the clips are used. The clips range from one to fifteen minutes in length with a total viewing time of approximately five hours.
		Discuss The guide offers twenty professional development sessions centered on video clips illustrating best talk practices in action. The sessions are divided into chapters that correspond to the chapters in Classroom Discussions: Using Math Talk to Help Students Learn, Grades K–6, Second Edition (available separately). Included in each of the sessions are activities to use in conjunction with the video clips, reproducible handouts, discussion questions, and assignments for participants. This multimedia professional learning resource offers: 75 video clips, totaling 5 hours of video Organized by chapter AND grade level for easy finding 20 sessions, totaling 30 to 40 hours of professionals development experience Sessions illustrating best talk practices Sessions correspond to the chapters in the Classroom Discussions book 12 lesson plans aligned to Common Core State Standards Lesson planning template including sessions handouts and lesson plans More than 20 ready-to-use reproducible handouts
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Sample of Video Clips
Grade 1 Professional Development Session 1.1—A First Encounter with Productive Math Discourse: How did she solve it?
Click to play clip 1.1b (3:19)	In this clip, the teacher has the students solve addition of three numbers and explain it to their partner. The partner then repeats back what the first student said. Download Session 1.1—Getting Started: Mathematics Learning with Classroom Discussions Download Reproducible for Session 1.1
Grade 5 Professional Development Session 1.3—Who Can Repeat? Finding the volume of a rectangular prism
Click to play clip 1.3a5 (1:46)	In this clip, a student gives his way of finding the volume of a rectangular prism. The teacher asks others to repeat. Download Session 1.3—Talk Moves That Help Students Orient to The Thinking of Others Download Reproducible for Session 1.3
Grade 6 Professional Development Session—A First Encounter with Productive Math Discourse: Is three-fifths less than three-fourths?
Click to play clip 4.2	In this clip sixth-grade students talk about the strategies that they used to find the percent representation of seven-eighths. Download Session 4.2—Talking About Computational Procedures: Representing Fractions as Percents Download Reproducible for Session 4.2

What Teachers Say About Math Talk
Click to play clip	Teacher Clip: Clip from Classroom Discussions: Seeing Math Discourse in Action, Grades K–6, A Multimedia Professional Learning Resource

What People Are Saying
	"In my view, the second edition of Classroom Discussions: Using Math Talk to Help Students Learn (Chapin, O'Connor, and Anderson 2009) is the single best book available for learning about and implementing academically productive talk in the classroom. And now, with the companion facilitator's guide, DVDs, and CD package—Classroom Discussions: Seeing Math Discourse in Action—there is nothing comparable. With its classroom video examples from kindergarten through grade 6, this combined resource gives a description of the practices and examples of them in action in urban classrooms—a window into using talk tools to promote learning. And while the facilitator's guide, DVDs, and CD reproducibles focus on mathematics, the principles and practices discussed and illustrated therein are just as powerful in teaching English language arts, science, social studies, or history. The talk tools work extraordinarily well with English language learners and students who have struggled academically. If you need to select one resource for a study group of teachers interested in transforming their practice, this is the one to get." Sarah Michaels Professor of Education and Senior Research Scholar Jacob Hiatt Center for Urban Education Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts
	"I have used Classroom Discussions: Using Math Talk to Help Students Learn (Chapin, O'Connor, and Anderson 2009) for years in my work with teachers and have found it to be the most effective tool for learning to lead discussions in which students not only talk about but also learn math. Seeing what a productive mathematical discussion looks like, with all of the complexities that come with real children in a real school classroom, is the first step toward being able to lead one. Unpacking what is going on in such a discussion, understanding the routines in the teacher's actions and how they are adapted to particular content and particular students is the next step, followed by trying it out and working through the results with a group of peers. The companion facilitator's guide, enhanced with videos and reproducible lesson plans, provides an even richer support across the full spectrum of elementary mathematics." Magdalene Lampert Professor of Teaching and Teacher Education University of Michigan Author of Teaching Problems and the Problems of Teaching back to top ^


Author Bios
	Suzanne H. Chapin is a professor of mathematics education at Boston University. She is interested in mathematics curricula, the education of the gifted, and how to further the mathematics achievement of economically disadvantaged students. Over the past 25 years, she has directed many projects and written many books in these areas. She is the co-author of Classroom Discussions: Using Math Talk to Help Students Learn, Grades K–6, Second Edition and Classroom Discussions: Seeing Math Discourse in Action.
	Nancy Anderson has taught mathematics to students from kindergarten through grade 8. Currently, Nancy is a doctoral student in mathematics education and an instructor for preservice elementary teachers at Boston University. Nancy is also a Math Solutions consultant. She is the co-author of Classroom Discussions: Using Math Talk to Help Students Learn, Grades K–6, Second Edition and Classroom Discussions: Seeing Math Discourse in Action.
	Catherine O’Connor is a professor of education and linguistics. She is director of the graduate program in Applied Linguistics at Boston University. O’Connor works with teachers and researchers to study language use in classrooms. She is the co-author of Classroom Discussions: Using Math Talk to Help Students Learn, Grades K–6, Second Edition and Classroom Discussions: Seeing Math Discourse in Action.