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The CPALMS Beyond Standards video series serves to facilitate a deeper understanding and effective implementation of the K-5 mathematics standards for educators throughout the state.
As we explore the meaning behind the standards, strategies for instructional success, and student responses to various approaches, teachers have an opportunity to gain insight from leading researchers in education as well as hear directly from fellow teachers who are putting tried-and-true methods into practice in the field.
Spanning from Kindergarten through fifth grade, these videos are intended to lay out a solid foundation for effectively interpreting and implementing the standards to help guide our students to succeed in the classroom and beyond.
You have the choice to watch the videos one-by-one, as a playlist by grade band, or the entire series. Scroll down to view the list and get started.
Dr. Akihiko Takahashi shares the value of implementing the standards for our youngest students along with detailing the use of an understandable context and open-ended questions to help students be active learners as they relate to and reflect on the content they are learning.
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Dr. Takahashi continues the conversation on implementing the Mathematical Practice Standards with our young students by encouraging the use of manipulatives to build understanding and explain student thinking as well as teaching students to explain their reasoning.
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Dr. Takahashi elaborates on ways we can promote student engagement in mathematics through engaging, peer-to-peer mathematical conversations.
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First grade teacher Ms. Jeanne Wright adds to Dr. Takahashi's discussion of four specific teaching strategies by sharing how she implements those strategies in her first grade classroom. We see her students' responses to her use of an understandable context, open-ended questions, manipulatives, and student math conversations.
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Dr. Alice Gill lays out how the three shifts in instruction - focus, coherence, and rigor - are embedded in the standards themselves, using research findings to support their significance, and specifically zeroes in on the aspect of focus.
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Dr. Gill explores how shifting from teaching isolated math skills to implementing coherence and rigor in our math instruction provides rich, effective mathematical experiences for our children.
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Dr. Gill illustrates what the implementation of focus, coherence, and rigor in instruction looks like in Kindergarten.
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Kindergarten teacher Ms. Karen Lassiter values the "less is more" concept in how one can teach less topics, but teach them to a greater depth, using the principles of focus, coherence, and rigor in a Kindergarten classroom.
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Mr. Zachary Champagne defines the the three shifts in instruction - focus, coherence, and rigor - as they apply to teaching math in first and second grades. He discusses the importance of intense student engagement with the content in order to build deeper student understanding as well as a greater ability to reason.
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Mr. Champagne talks through some of the strategies that teachers might use to increase the rigor of instruction in our classrooms.
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Mr. Champagne answers the question, "How can we help first and second grade students understand number and operations?" He does so by describing some of the key components of the standards as they address our students' need for understanding and creating mathematically.
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First grade teacher MS. Stephanie Hajdin believes that the way she teaches today is "very different from the way [she] taught 3 or 4 years ago." She delves into detail about the impact the three shifts of instruction - focus, coherence, and rigor - have had on the way she teaches important mathematical skills, such as decomposition, to her young students.
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Dr. Tad Watanabe uses thought-provoking analogies to help illustrate the importance of the three shifts in instruction - focus, coherence, and rigor.
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Dr. Watanabe facilitates an understanding of how the three shifts can best be applied in an implementation of the standards when it comes to the big idea of fractions in third grade.
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Dr. Watanabe goes in-depth about the skill of problem-solving as, not only a goal, but as a tool for learning as presented in the standards.
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Third grade teacher Ms. Jillian Seybert invites us into her classroom to demonstrate how her students have benefited from the three shifts of instruction - focus, coherence, and rigor - as she applies these changes to her curriculum.
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Dr. Akihiko Takahashi emphasizes the value of the Standards for Mathematical Practice for our third through fifth grade students as well as three levels of teaching that produce different responses from our students.
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Dr. Takahashi details the importance of using the standards of mathematical practice to help students learn mathematics. He discusses how to use the task and the sequence of the lesson activities as well as the teacher’s role to promote the learning of mathematics through problem-solving.
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Dr. Takahashi describes how to make student thinking visible through students' note-taking and how to use these notes to promote mathematical reasoning and understanding.
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Dr. Takahashi explains the role and significance of questioning as we lead students through the problem solving process. He demonstrates how asking the appropriate question at the appropriate time can prompt the students’ use of the Standards for Mathematical practice.
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Fifth grade teacher Ms. Heather Williams shares how she uses “teaching through problem-solving” to build her students’ use of the Standards for Mathematical Practice. We see her students’ reactions to her methods for promoting understanding and reasoning.
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Ms. Linda Gojak pulls from 35 years of classroom teaching as well as time spent in educational leadership to share her knowledge regarding the meaning of the three shifts in instruction - focus, coherence, and rigor. She continues on to elaborate how these shifts can be successfully implemented in our fourth and fifth grade classrooms.
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Ms. Gojak presents specific activities and encourages us to reflect on how we might teach specific content standards while implementing the shifts in instruction. She explains that these strategies can be applied to the topic of fractions alongside many other topics as we implement focus, coherence, and rigor in teaching our upper-elementary school level students.
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Ms. Gojak expands the discussion to include the concepts of multiplication and rational thinking as she applies her presented strategies to these skills within the framework of enhancing focus, coherence, and rigor in our instruction.
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Fourth grade teacher Ms. Amy Spies shares the importance of devoting time to the standards and discusses the tools and strategies she uses to bring focus, coherence, and rigor into her instruction to help her students succeed.
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