UW helps teachers see how students learn
The News Tribune - Tacoma, WA
November 21, 2006
In a training partnership with the University of Washington, Bethel teachers are learning how to be more effective at watching students learn and plumbing the depth of their understanding.
It’s an approach that works with any curriculum, from Tacoma’s back-to-basics Saxon Math to the word-problem math of recent years, said Elham Kazemi, associate professor of mathematics education at the University of Washington.
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Lenses on Learning
A University of Washington program helps administrators improve the teaching and learning of mathematics.
Over the past five years, within the context of a National Science Foundation grant called Expanding the Community of Mathematics Learners, the University of Washington has collaborated with six Puget Sound-area school districts to improve mathematics instruction in elementary schools.
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Supporting Elementary Mathematics through LongTerm
Professional Education
Elham Kazemi
To appear in Curriculum in Context
Journal of Washington State Association of Supervision & Curriculum Development
Around the state, there is a buzz about improving mathematics teaching and learning. We
are bombarded, almost daily, with what our students and schools cannot do. Transforming
mathematics teaching and learning is not likely to happen overnight, but it does depend on our
efforts to build capacity for systems to learn and to learn together. The good news is that there
now exists an array of professional resources to help. When embedded in a longterm,
coherent
plan and used skillfully, these resources can support schools and districts to develop more
coherent and robust instruction that aims for mathematical fluency for all students.
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