Teacher Guides
Each lesson includes support for facilitation, which can be found in different places on the lesson page.
The Lesson at a Glance is an overview of the lesson and includes the length and the goals of each activity.
The Teacher Guide is a downloadable PDF that accompanies every digital lesson. It includes screenshots of each screen as well as teacher tips, sample responses, and student supports.
The Lesson Guide / Teacher Edition is a downloadable PDF that accompanies every print lesson. It includes preparation details and materials for the lesson, as well as tips for purposeful facilitation of each activity.
Teacher tips are suggestions for facilitation to support great classroom conversations. These include:
Teacher Moves: Suggestions for pacing, facilitation moves, discussion questions, examples of early student thinking, and ideas for early finishers, as well as opportunities to build and develop the math community in your classroom.
Sample Responses: One or more examples of a possible student response to the problem.
Student Supports: Facilitation suggestions to support students with disabilities and multilingual students.
Teachers Talk About Teacher Guides
I count on the pacing suggestions and go through the slides as if I am a student. I can then adjust based on what I know about my students.
–Mary Hornback Glisan, Williamsburg-James City County, VA
The pacing suggestions and teacher moves are key! These really allow you to anticipate where to have follow up whole class discussions and smaller check ins throughout a lesson.
–Nicole Johnson, East Irondequoit School District, Rochester, NYI find the suggested timings really helpful to gauge whether something is just a quick preview or somewhere we should spend a lot of time.
–Abigail Horsfall, Bellevue School District, Bellevue, WAThe "Support for Students with Disabilities" and "Support for English Language Learners" is also helpful. I will sometimes add the suggested sentence frames in as a slide to help me to remember to stop there and give the EL students a chance to work with the language.
–Kimberly Macey, Acton-Boxborough Regional School District, Acton, MA
Frequently Asked Questions
This lesson has both a teacher guide and a paper lesson guide. Which should I use?
Some lessons include both a print and a digital option, which means there is both a teacher guide (for the digital lesson) and a lesson guide (for the print lesson). Use the guide that matches the format you plan to use in your classroom.
Are the teacher tips on the screens the same as the ones on the digital Teacher Guide?
Yes!
Are there sample responses I can snapshot?
Every screen includes sample responses. Some teachers create their own student accounts that they populate with sample responses or other responses they want to reference throughout class.
