Washington State Math Fellows
CCSS INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICE REFLECTION
The Shifts required by the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics are:
1.
Focus: Focus strongly where the Standards focus.
2.
Coherence: Think across grades, and link to major topics within grades.
3.
Rigor: In major topics pursue conceptual understanding, procedural skill and fluency, and
application with equal intensity.
Reflect on your confidence to implement the 3 CCSS Math shifts in your own classroom.
I can design and facilitate lessons that support students
in relating new concepts to prior skills and knowledge.
1
2
3
No connections
are made to
students’ prior
skills
I can pose high quality questions and problems that
prompt students to share their developing thinking
about the content of the lesson.
I have strategies to keep all students persevering
with challenging problems.
I have established a classroom culture in which
students explain their thinking and each other’s
thinking.
There is variety in what my students produce
1
My lessons explicitly build
on students’ prior skills and
knowledge and students
articulate these connections
2
3
Questions and
problems rarely
prompt students to
share their
developing thinking.
1
2
3
2
3
1
Once or twice
a year
4
Students regularly
explain and justify
their own and others’
thinking
2
3
Students
mostly produce
answers and
solutions.
Students reflect on their learning and learn from their
mistakes.
4
I have multiple strategies
to help students persist in
efforts to solve challenging
problems
Students are
rarely asked to
explain their
thinking.
1
4
Questions and problems
consistently prompt
students to share their
developing thinking
Most students do
not persist with
challenging
problems.
1
4
4
Students regularly
produce answers,
solutions, arguments,
explanations,
diagrams, models,etc.
2
3
4
Daily