The Teacher's Guide to Flexible Interviewing in the Classroom: Learning What Children Know About Math by Herbert P. Ginsburg, Luz Stella Lopez, Susan F. Jacobs, Luz S. Lopez, Susan Jacobs

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  • 211pp

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  • ISBN-13: 9780205265671
  • Edition Number: 1
  • Pub. Date: January 1998
  • Publisher: Allyn & Bacon, Inc.

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  • Pub. Date: January 1998
  • Publisher: Allyn & Bacon, Inc.
  • Format: Textbook Paperback, 211pp

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To teach effectively, teachers need to understand what the child means; discover what the shy child is thinking; or why the student from a different culture refuses to answer. Curriculum improvements such as computers will not be truly effective unless teachers understand how children think and what they know. The Standards of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics urge teachers to go in new directions and conduct more "authentic" assessments of students. This book helps teachers understand and use one essential form of assessment aimed at uncovering children's thinking about math and other subjects - the flexible interview. The authors' goal is to help elementary level teachers understand and use flexible interviewing. They describe practical ways of using flexible interviews in the classroom in order to learn what children know about math. The methods described were developed and tested by real classroom teachers. Elementary school teachers of any subject. A Longwood Professional Book

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Helps teachers understand and use a form of assessment aimed at uncovering children's thinking about mathematics. Discusses how teachers can prepare children for work with interviewing, how to conduct interviews with individuals and groups, and how to teach children to interview each other. Sample classroom assignment sheets show actual student work followed by the student's own assessment of the strategy used to solve the problems. A list of specific questions that teachers may use as the basis for interviews is presented, organized by topics in the mathematics curriculum from grade K through five. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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