The
National Science Foundation-funded Mathematics for All project,
conducted by Bank Street College of Education and the Education
Development Center, has developed professional development resources
to support teachers as they improve preK-6, standards-based
mathematics education for all students, including students with
disabilities. The resources consist of video-taped mathematics
lessons from a range of different elementary classrooms that include
students with disabilities, multimedia resources related to the
lessons (for example, samples of student work and curriculum
materials), and facilitated learning experiences that incorporate
clips from the video-taped math lessons. The materials have been used
in 35 pre-service and 16 in-service teacher education courses across
the country, reaching about 1,400 practicing or future teachers and
the approximately 35,000 students they teach.
Results
from pilot- and field-tests show that the resources improve
pre-service and in-service teachers’ knowledge of how to analyze
the demands of a mathematical task, how to assess strengths and needs
of individual students, and how to make decisions about adapting
mathematics lessons to support students with diverse strengths and
needs. Emerging findings suggest that these changes have resulted in
improved lesson planning and teaching practices, including
differentiated instruction.
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Video
from case lessons allows teachers to observe the strengths and
needs of individual students.
Credit: Andrea Brothman
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