The Teachers Guide to Flexible Interviewing in the Classroom: Learning What Children Know about Math Book

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 BookRead More