Elevating Clinical Practice in Mathematics Education

Cases That Showcase Teaching Practices in Action

Drew Polly, Christie S. Martin

• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Year: 2025
• Print ISBN:
  9781837085118
  9781837085101
• eBook ISBN:
  9781837085132
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Curricula

Elevating clinical practice in mathematics education has potential to greatly transform the preparation of effective mathematics teachers. In the current climate of education, clinical practice includes: (1) traditional undergraduates in an educator preparation program, (2) post-baccalaureate individuals who have a degree in another field who are working on their initial teacher license, and (3) teachers in residency programs where full-time teachers are simultaneously earning their license. This book provides cases of all three groups with an emphasis on how clinical practices and course work effectively prepares effective mathematics teachers. This book showcases 51 examples of clinical practice in mathematics education. The cases are organized in chapters with each chapter focused on one of the National Council for Teachers of Mathematics Effective Teaching Practices (NCTM, 2014). Each chapter includes cases aligned to the 8 Teaching Practices with discussion questions and an example clinical practice activity.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contemporary Issues in Clinically Based Teacher Education in Action
• Title page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Series Foreword: Rebecca West Burns and Eva Garin
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction and Orientation to This Book: Drew Polly and Christie S. Martin
• 1. Establish Mathematics Goals to Focus Learning: Drew Polly and Christie S. Martin
• Cases in Action
• 2. Implement Tasks That Promote Reasoning and Problem Solving: Drew Polly and Christie S. Martin
• Cases in Action
• 3. Use and Connect Mathematical Representations: Drew Polly and Christie S. Martin
• Cases in Action
• 4. Facilitate Meaningful Mathematical Discourse: Christie S. Martin and Drew Polly
• Cases in Action
• 5. Posing Purposeful Questions: Christie S. Martin and Drew Polly
• Cases in Action
• 6. Build Procedural Fluency From Conceptual Understanding: Drew Polly and Christie S. Martin
• Cases in Action
• 7. Support Productive Struggle in Learning Mathematics: Drew Polly and Christie S. Martin
• Cases in Action
• 8. Elicit and Use Evidence of Student Learning: Drew Polly and Christie S. Martin
• Cases in Action
• 9. Looking Across the Chapters: Drew Polly
• About the Authors