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Fennell, Francis – National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 2011
"Achieving Fluency" presents the understandings that all teachers need to play a role in the education of students who struggle: those with disabilities and those who simply lack essential foundational knowledge. This book serves teachers and supervisors by sharing increasingly intensive instructional interventions for struggling students on…
Descriptors: State Standards, Disabilities, Special Education, Mathematics Instruction
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Fennell, Francis; Kobett, Beth McCord; Wray, Jonathan A. – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2013
Elementary school mathematics leaders often come to the realization that their position, however titled and determined, although dedicated to addressing needs in math teaching and learning, also entails and directly involves leadership. Elementary school math specialists/instructional leaders (referenced here as elementary mathematics leaders, or…
Descriptors: Elementary School Mathematics, Instructional Leadership, Specialists, Leadership Responsibility
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Siegler, Robert; Carpenter, Thomas; Fennell, Francis; Geary, David; Lewis, James; Okamoto, Yukari; Thompson, Laurie; Wray, Jonathan – What Works Clearinghouse, 2010
This practice guide presents five recommendations intended to help educators improve students' understanding of, and problem-solving success with, fractions. Recommendations progress from proposals for how to build rudimentary understanding of fractions in young children; to ideas for helping older children understand the meaning of fractions and…
Descriptors: Mathematics, Problem Solving, Young Children, Elementary Education
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Fennell, Francis (Skip); Rowan, Tom – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2001
Illustrates the use of representation of equality, perimeter and area, measurement, and data in the mathematics classroom. (KHR)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Principles, Elementary Education, Geometry
Coley, Joan D.; Fennell, Francis M. – 1981
The report describes a model used to evaluate gifted programs. The model is said to rely on three sources of data: (1) structured narrative observation (the Gifted Class Activities Observation Scale); (2) teacher interviews; and (3) pupil interviews. (Sample forms appended.) The application of theory with this procedure resulted in an evaluation…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Gifted
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Reys, Barbara J.; Fennell, Francis (Skip) – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2003
Presents a case for identifying and supporting mathematics specialists in elementary schools. (Author/NB)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Leadership, Mathematics Instruction, Specialists