Math Workshop: Five Steps to Implementing Guided Math, Learning Stations, Reflection, and More

Math Workshop: Five Steps to Implementing Guided Math, Learning Stations, Reflection, and More is an essential resource for any teacher, school, or district looking to shift or enhance how math is taught. It includes lesson plan examples and templates that will help you visualize and implement a math workshop model in any classroom.Successfully implement the transformational math workshop model of instruction through five accessible, manageable steps:Step 1: Understand Math WorkshopStep 2: Prepare Your Students for Math WorkshopStep 3: Decide Your Math Workshop StructureStep 4: Facilitate Your Math WorkshopStep 5: Reflect on and Refine Your Math WorkshopEducators are invited to embrace Math Workshop as their own personal “instructional coach,” first exploring what Jennifer Lempp refers to as “three buckets” that need to be in place for a highly successful math workshop:Classroom ArrangementRoutines and ProceduresMathematics CommunityGuidance for Getting Started with Math WorkshopThe resource then offers “Twenty Days to a Classroom Culture That Works,” which includes 20 minilessons that support the communication and practice of expectations surrounding the workshop model. From there, it explores three classroom-tested math workshop structures, providing practical ideas for routines, focus lessons, guided math groups, learning stations, and reflections so you can get started with math workshop in your classroom today.Streaming Video and Reproducibles IncludedThe streaming video clips invite you inside K–5 classrooms for a seeing-is-believing look at math workshop in action. Seeing clips of actual teachers and students engaged in math workshop is the next best thing to observing the model in a classroom.Templates, tools, and ideas are included and also available for download. Read more