This course equips teachers with a powerful, structured model for facilitating mathematics discussions that are grounded in students' thinking. Centered on the five practices—anticipating, monitoring, selecting, sequencing, and connecting—the approach emphasizes intentional planning before instruction so teachers can guide discourse purposefully rather than relying on improvisation in the moment.
Participants learn how to design lessons that make students’ mathematical reasoning visible, and how to orchestrate discussions that highlight key ideas, deepen understanding, and move learning forward. Because meaningful mathematical discourse rarely emerges by chance, the course provides concrete guidance for creating classroom environments where all students are encouraged to reason, share, and build on one another’s ideas.