MCP Teaching Approach

We talk about the MCP instructional approach being curriculum independent because the approach allows the pedagogy to focus on the critical features of instruction (Hiebert, J., Carpenter, T., Fennema, E., Fuson, K., Wearne, D., Murray, H., Oliver, A., & Human, P., 1997). Regardless of the curriculum, the MCP teachers are expected to include in their pedagogy the following activities:

• posing a problem or frame an activity;
• allowing students to work freely, circulating to monitor, encourage, and strategically guide students;
• questioning students to probe thinking and to evoke deeper understanding;
• encouraging students to develop multiple representations and identify mathematical connections;
• encouraging students to communicate reasoning and justification for their work;
• facilitating discussions about student solutions and problem-solving strategies;
• documenting the on-going assessment throughout the lesson; and
• grounding instructional strategies for the next lesson on assessment.
  
   
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