What to Look for in Mathematics Classrooms (Principal Magazine November/December 2006)

By Barbara Scott Nelson and Annette Sassi

To understand what is happening in today’s math class and make informed judgments about the adequacy of the instruction, principals need to listen to students’ mathematical thinking and assess the teacher’s capacity also to listen and to make instructional moves that help students’ mathematical thinking progress. The first step in learning to do this is for principals to take every opportunity they can to learn to listen to students’ mathematical thinking, themselves.

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